Family Diversity- K

Question 1

Family diversity

Answer 1

All the different forms of families and family life that exist in society

Question 2

Conventional family

Answer 2

Nuclear families composed of legally married couples, voluntarily choosing parenthood of one or more children

Question 3

Neo-conventional family

Answer 3

Dual-earner family in which both parents go out to work not just the father

Question 4

‘Mum centred’ working class extended family

Answer 4

Family based on ties between mothers and their married daughters, who relied on each other for financial, practical and emotional support

Question 5

Exchange Theory

Answer 5

family members engage in relationships based on a cost-benefit analysis

Question 6

Dispersed Extended Family

Answer 6

Two or more related families supporting each other despite the distance apart from each other that the families may live

Question 7

Beanpole Family

Answer 7

A multi-generational family that is long and thin with few aunts, uncles and cousins

Question 8

Cereal Packet Family

Answer 8

A functionalist concept which argues that the idealised version of the family is the nuclear family of mother, father an two children

Question 9

Monogamy

Answer 9

being married to one person at a time.

Question 10

Polygamy

Answer 10

having more than one wife or husband at the same time

Question 11

Polyandry

Answer 11

marriage of a woman to two or more men at the same time

Question 12

Serial Monogamy

Answer 12

the fact or custom of having a number of sexual relationships one after another

Question 13

Family Life Cycle

Answer 13

the emotional and intellectual stages you pass through from childhood to your retirement years as a member of a family

Question 14

Cohort Life Cycle

Answer 14

a group of people all born within the same specified time period

Question 15

Divorce Extended Family

Answer 15

involves the continued extended family relationships after a couple divorces

Question 16

Negotiated Family

Answer 16

vary according to the wishes and expectations of their members, who decide what is best for themselves by negotiation

Question 17

Zombie Family

Answer 17

The family appears to be alive, but in reality is dead. People want it to be a haven of security in an insecure world, but today’s family cannot provide this because of its own instability

Question 18

Fictive Kin

Answer 18

an individual who is not related by birth, adoption, or marriage to a child, but who has an emotionally significant relationship with the child

Question 19

Connectedness Thesis

Answer 19

Argues that we have choice but these are always made within a web of connectedness and are linked/influenced by our networks of existing relationships