Family Definitions Flashcards
Household
A person or group living in the same residence
Family
A socially recognised group of two or more individuals joined by kinship(adoption,blood,fictive kin or marriage)
Secularisation
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
Legal changes
Divorce has been made easier therefore leading to more family types
Nuclear family
A couple and their dependant children, regarded as a basic social unit
Lone parent family
Family consisting of one parent living with one or more of their children
Extended family
Closely related people of several generations
Beanpole family
Multiple generations but only a few members in each one
Reconstituted family
Children from different marriages becoming one family after their divorced parents marry each other
Living apart together
A relationship in which two people define themselves as a couple but do not live together
Singletons of singledom
One offspring born the state of being single and especially unmarried
Cohabitation
Living together
House or flat sharing
Two or more people living in accommodation together
Domestic division of labour
How household tasks are divided between family members
Instrumental role
The position of the family member who provides the family’s material support and is often an authority figure
Expressive role
The position of the family member who provides emotional support and nurturing
Segregated conjugal roles
Where the couple shares tasks such as housework and childcare and spend their leisure time together
Joint conjugal roles
Where the couple share tasks such as housework and childcare and spend their leisure time together
Symmetrical family
Relationship in which family roles are shared equally within the home
Empty nest syndrome
When children have grown up and left home
Matrifocal family
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.
Symmetrical family Willmott and Young
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.
Same sex families
A same-sex family is a homosexual couple living together with children
Lone parent family
Lone parenthood is where a mother or a father takes care of dependent children without a partner
Cereal packet family
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
Cohabitation
Cohabitation is when a couple live together in one household but are not legally married.
Instrumental role
The breadwinner role played by the man involving achieving success at work so that he can provide for the family financially
Expressive role
The homemaker role played by the woman,providing primary socialisation for the children and meeting the family’s emotional needs
Triple shift
Women are responsible for the domestic work,paid work and emotional work.
Dual burden
Women are responsible for the domestic work and paid work
Secularisation
The process whereby religious thinking practice and institutions decline and loose influence in society
