Family - Concepts

Question 1

Beanpole family

Answer 1

Vertically extended family including grandparents, parents and children

Question 2

Childhood

Answer 2

Socially defined age status

Question 3

Civil partnership

Answer 3

Same sex couples have the same legal rights to married couples

Question 4

Conjugal role

Answer 4

Roles played by husband and wife

Question 5

Culture

Answer 5

The shared norms and values of a group

Question 6

Demography

Answer 6

The study of population

Question 7

Dependency culture

Answer 7

When people assume that the state will support them

Question 8

Domestic labour

Answer 8

Work performed in the home/childcare and housework

Question 9

Dual burden

Answer 9

Women do paid and domestic work

Question 10

Empty shell marriage

Answer 10

A marriage in name only

Question 11

Ethnic group

Answer 11

People with a shared heritage or culture

Question 12

Expressive role

Answer 12

The caring nurturing role in the family

Question 13

Family diversity

Answer 13

The idea that there are many ways in which a family can differ

Question 14

Families of choice

Answer 14

People not blood related, kinship networks

Question 15

Fertility rate

Answer 15

Average number of children women have

Question 16

Functional fit

Answer 16

The family fits according to the needs of society

Question 17

Gender

Answer 17

Social and cultural characteristics of men and women

Question 18

Household

Answer 18

A group of people who live together

Question 19

Individualisation thesis

Answer 19

Individuals are free to make their own decisions, they are no longer bound by society

Question 20

Infant mortality

Answer 20

The number of infants who died before their first birthday pet 1000 births

Question 21

Instrumental role

Answer 21

The breadwinner or provider role

Question 22

Life expectancy

Answer 22

How long on average a person lives

Question 23

Net migration

Answer 23

The difference between the number of people leaving and the number of people entering a country

Question 24

Norms

Answer 24

Social rules of behaviour

Question 25

Patriarchy

Answer 25

Rule by the father/male dominated

Question 26

Pure relationships

Answer 26

One that exists purely to meet the partners needs

Question 27

Reconstituted family

Answer 27

Stepfamily

Question 28

Role

Answer 28

How someone who occupies a certain status is expected to behave

Question 29

Secularisation

Answer 29

The decline of religion

Question 30

Social class

Answer 30

Social grouping based on wealth and occupation

Question 31

Social construction

Answer 31

Where something is created by society rather than occurring naturally

Question 32

Social policy

Answer 32

Actions, plans and programmes of government bodies

Question 33

Socialisation

Answer 33

The process of learning norms and values

Question 34

Status

Answer 34

Position in society

Question 35

Stereotype

Answer 35

A simplified usually negative view of a group or individual

Question 36

Subculture

Answer 36

A group of people who share the same norms and values that may not be the same as the majority culture

Question 37

Symmetrical family

Answer 37

A nuclear family with similar buy not equal roles

Question 38

Triple shift

Answer 38

Where women do paid work, domestic worker and emotion work

Question 39

Underclass

Answer 39

A group below the working class with a distinct set of norms and values

Question 40

Unit of consumption

Answer 40

How the family is seen in terms of what it buys and uses

Question 41

Value consensus

Answer 41

Agreement amongst societies members about what is important in society

Question 42

Values

Answer 42

Ideas and beliefs that are shared by all

Question 43

Welfare state

Answer 43

Where the government or State takes responsibility. For people wellbeing and basic minimum needs