Family Flashcards
Household unit?
The group of people living together in the same residence, sharing living space.
Nuclear families?
Nuclear families consist of an adult man and an adult woman who are married or in a relationship, living together with their dependent children.
Extended families?
Extended families consist of nuclear families that live with other relatives such as grandparents, great grandparents, uncles and cousins.
Kinship?
When the ties between people are related by descent, marriage or adoption.
One/Single parent families?
One parent living together with their dependent children.
Divorvce?
The formal, legal ending of a marriage.
Reconstituted family?
The new family created when someone remarries due to a divorce or the death of their previous partner.
Step Parent?
After remarriage a step parent shares with their partner parental responsibilities for children from previous marriages.
Step child?
A child that lives with one biological parent and one step parent.
Civil partnership?
A relationship between two people usually of the same sex that has been formally registered giving them rights similar to a married couples.
Vertically extended families?
Two generations living together.
Horizontally extended families?
People of the same generation living together.
cerreal packet family?
The stereotypical family of a nuclear family with traditional gender rolesthat is often shown in advertisement.
Family Diversity?
The increase in the number of different types of families.
Matrifocal families?
One in which the mother heads the family and the father has a less important role in the family and in the upbringing of the children.
Matriarchy?
When the women heads the household with authority over the men and the children in the house.
Arranged marriage?
Marriage partner chosen by older family members rather than people choosing their own marriage partner.
Primary socialisation?
The process by which infants and young children absorb the norms and values of their culture.
Patriarchy?
The control of societies by men
The term used by feminists to refer to societies and institutions ( including family ) in which men are dominant and the women subordinate.
Feminism?
A theoretical perspective focused on issues regarding gender inequality and on the position of women in the family and in society.
Commune?
A group of people who choose to live together sharing at least some of their property.
One person household?
When only one person lives in a residence.
Traditional societies?
Non-modern societies contrasted with modern industrial societies.
Monogamy?
Being married to one person at a time.
Serial monogamy?
When someone has more than one marriage partner in their life, but only one at a time.
Polygamy?
Being married to more than one person at the same time.
Polyandry?
When a women has more than one husband at the same time.
Polygyny?
When a man has more than one wife at the same time.
Cohabition
2 unmarried people living together in an intimate relationship.
Marriage.
The formal joining of a man and woman in a relationship with rights and responsibilities.
Martial breakdown.
When a marriage has broken down so that the couple is no longer living as husband and wife.
Secularisation.
The process through which religion has become less important in the daily lives of people in modern industrial societies.
Empty shell marriage.
A married couple that continues to live together with out love or affection.
Family roles.
The parts played by the different members of the family.
Conjugal roles.
The roles undertaken by the husband and wife resulting from the domestic division of labour.
Joint conjugal roles.
The husband and wife carry out various tasks and activities together, without a clear division of labour.
Traditional conjugal roles.
The segregated roles assumed to be normal in the the traditional nuclear family.
Symmetrical family.
Symmetrical family: families in which the conjugal roles have become more equal.
Dual worker families.
Families in which both the man and the woman do paid worker.
Gender equality.
When men and women have equal rights, status and roles.
Child centredness.
When the child’s wants and needs are the most important consideration.
Empty nest families.
Families in which the parents are living together after the adult children have moved out.
Boomerang families.
Boomerang families, in which the adult children have moved out but then return.
Pivot generation.
Parents that are giving considerable support to their children and their parents.
Segregated conjugal roles.
When a husband and wife have clearly different roles in the family as well as different interests and activities.
Domestic division of labour?
The way in which tasks in the house (such as cleaning, repairing and cooking etc) are divided between men and women.
Dual burden
The burden of the women who do both paid work as well as look after the family. Sometimes the term triple burden/shift is used as well to include the labour of looking after the emotional needs/wellbeing of the family members.
Dark side of the family.
The negative aspects of family life such as arguments, violence, neglect and abuse.
Dysfunctional family.
Family that fails to carry out the functions expected of it.
Domestic violence
Violence with in the family. Usually but not always by men against women. This refers to not only physical violence but patterns of controlling behaviour including emotional manipulation.
Industrialisation
The process through which in history societies moved from being rural and based on agriculture to being urban with more people living in cities.
Urbanisation
The growth of cities so that a higher proportion of the population live in cities.
Modern industrial societies
Created by industrialisation; societies that today have industrial economies and high urban population.
DINK families
Double income, no kids.
Beanpole families
Families with one or very few children combined with rising life expectancy.
Death rate.
The number of deaths per year per 1000 people of the population.
Demographic trends
The pattern in changes of demographics measures such as birth and death rates.
Fertility rate
The number of live births per 1000 women of child bearing age in the population.
Birth rate
The number of live births per year per 1000 people in the population.
