Family - Concepts Flashcards
Beanpole family
Vertically extended family including grandparents, parents and children
Childhood
Socially defined age status
Civil partnership
Same sex couples have the same legal rights to married couples
Conjugal role
Roles played by husband and wife
Culture
The shared norms and values of a group
Demography
The study of population
Dependency culture
When people assume that the state will support them
Domestic labour
Work performed in the home/childcare and housework
Dual burden
Women do paid and domestic work
Empty shell marriage
A marriage in name only
Ethnic group
People with a shared heritage or culture
Expressive role
The caring nurturing role in the family
Family diversity
The idea that there are many ways in which a family can differ
Families of choice
People not blood related, kinship networks
Fertility rate
Average number of children women have
Functional fit
The family fits according to the needs of society
Gender
Social and cultural characteristics of men and women
Household
A group of people who live together
Individualisation thesis
Individuals are free to make their own decisions, they are no longer bound by society
Infant mortality
The number of infants who died before their first birthday pet 1000 births
Instrumental role
The breadwinner or provider role
Life expectancy
How long on average a person lives
Net migration
The difference between the number of people leaving and the number of people entering a country
Norms
Social rules of behaviour
Patriarchy
Rule by the father/male dominated
Pure relationships
One that exists purely to meet the partners needs
Reconstituted family
Stepfamily
Role
How someone who occupies a certain status is expected to behave
Secularisation
The decline of religion
Social class
Social grouping based on wealth and occupation
Social construction
Where something is created by society rather than occurring naturally
Social policy
Actions, plans and programmes of government bodies
Socialisation
The process of learning norms and values
Status
Position in society
Stereotype
A simplified usually negative view of a group or individual
Subculture
A group of people who share the same norms and values that may not be the same as the majority culture
Symmetrical family
A nuclear family with similar buy not equal roles
Triple shift
Where women do paid work, domestic worker and emotion work
Underclass
A group below the working class with a distinct set of norms and values
Unit of consumption
How the family is seen in terms of what it buys and uses
Value consensus
Agreement amongst societies members about what is important in society
Values
Ideas and beliefs that are shared by all
Welfare state
Where the government or State takes responsibility. For people wellbeing and basic minimum needs
