FAMILY+HOUSEHOLDS KEYWORDS (E - M) Flashcards
Ethnic / cultural diversity
Varying ethnic groups that live in Britain today
Expressive function
Expressive role
Empty shell marriage
Where love and romance have long gone and couples stay together because divorce is not an option or they just can’t make the effort to separate
Expressive role
Women form this where they provide warmth security and emotional support (Parsons)
Extended family
The nuclear family has been extended vertically (via grandparents) or horizontally (2(+) brothers and sisters)
False consciousness
Ways of thinking that are a produce of ideological forces of other groups
Family
2(+) generations of people tied together through blood
Family diversity
The differing forms of family organisation typical of modern Britain
Family paths
(Bernard) highly varied and individual experiences people have in families according to age, gender etc.
Fertility rate
Average no. of children women will have between the ages 15 and 44
Fit, thesis
Evolutionary theory - family changed from extended to nuclear to provide a functionally fit family to adapt to the industrial society
Gender ideology
Unspoken assumptions about the proper roles of men and women transmitted through socialisation
Gender
The social and cultural attributes of men and women
Gender division of labour
Husbands and wives’ different roles
Glass ceiling
A metaphorical barrier to the progress of women in major organisation (Feminism)
Household
A group of people not really related but share accommodation
Hierarchy
Concept of stratification, ordering the social positions in a structure of superiority and inferiority
Industrialisation
society moving from a predominantly agricultural base to a manufacturing one
Instrumental function
Men play an instrumental function - the breadwinner role
Isolated nuclear family
A family structure that has become isolated from wider kinship networks - due to industrialisation
Individualisation
(Popenoe) suggests we place emphasis on self fulfilment rather than collective goals
Infant mortality rate
Number of deaths in a population of infants under one years of age per thousand births
Join conjugal roles
A relationship where both partners share domestic tasks and make decisions together
Lone parent families
Families with a dependent child or children living with one parent, usually the mother
March of progress theory
Collective name for social theorists (usually functionalists) who see the family evolving and adapting in a progressive way to fit the needs of society
Marriage
A legal contract between two people of opposing sexes
Marriage rate
The number of marriages among the population of a given area per year per 1000 total population;ation
Monogamy
Relationship between one partner and another one at any one time
