Family Definitions

Question 1

Household

Answer 1

A person or group living in the same residence

Question 2

Family

Answer 2

A socially recognised group of two or more individuals joined by kinship(adoption,blood,fictive kin or marriage)

Question 3

Secularisation

Answer 3

As religion has become less central to uk society so people are more likely to consider alternatives to marriage and also there is a reduced stigma to divorce

Question 4

Legal changes

Answer 4

Divorce has been made easier therefore leading to more family types

Question 5

Nuclear family

Answer 5

A couple and their dependant children, regarded as a basic social unit

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Lone parent family

Answer 6

Family consisting of one parent living with one or more of their children

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Extended family

Answer 7

Closely related people of several generations

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Beanpole family

Answer 8

Multiple generations but only a few members in each one

Question 9

Reconstituted family

Answer 9

Children from different marriages becoming one family after their divorced parents marry each other

Question 10

Living apart together

Answer 10

A relationship in which two people define themselves as a couple but do not live together

Question 11

Singletons of singledom

Answer 11

One offspring born the state of being single and especially unmarried

Question 12

Cohabitation

Answer 12

Living together

Question 13

House or flat sharing

Answer 13

Two or more people living in accommodation together

Question 14

Domestic division of labour

Answer 14

How household tasks are divided between family members

Question 15

Instrumental role

Answer 15

The position of the family member who provides the family’s material support and is often an authority figure

Question 16

Expressive role

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The position of the family member who provides emotional support and nurturing

Question 17

Segregated conjugal roles

Answer 17

Where the couple shares tasks such as housework and childcare and spend their leisure time together

Question 18

Joint conjugal roles

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Where the couple share tasks such as housework and childcare and spend their leisure time together

Question 19

Symmetrical family

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Relationship in which family roles are shared equally within the home

Question 20

Empty nest syndrome

Answer 20

When children have grown up and left home

Question 21

Matrifocal family

Answer 21

means mother or female centered and can be understood to designate a domestic form in which only a mother and her dependent children are present or significant.

Question 22

Symmetrical family Willmott and Young

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The symmetrical family is where a family divides all responsibilities equally between partners. This was created and theorised by Willmott and Young (1970) as one of the phases the modern family has shifted into.

Question 23

Same sex families

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A same-sex family is a homosexual couple living together with children

Question 24

Lone parent family

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Lone parenthood is where a mother or a father takes care of dependent children without a partner

Question 25

Cereal packet family

Answer 25

The cereal packet family is a functionalist concept which argues that the idealised version of the family is the nuclear family of mother, father an two children

Question 26

Cohabitation

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Cohabitation is when a couple live together in one household but are not legally married.

Question 27

Instrumental role

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The breadwinner role played by the man involving achieving success at work so that he can provide for the family financially

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Expressive role

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The homemaker role played by the woman,providing primary socialisation for the children and meeting the family’s emotional needs

Question 29

Triple shift

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Women are responsible for the domestic work,paid work and emotional work.

Question 30

Dual burden

Answer 30

Women are responsible for the domestic work and paid work

Question 31

Secularisation

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The process whereby religious thinking practice and institutions decline and loose influence in society