FAMILY+HOUSEHOLDS KEYWORDS (E - M)

Question 1

Ethnic / cultural diversity

Answer 1

Varying ethnic groups that live in Britain today

Question 2

Expressive function

Answer 2

Expressive role

Question 3

Empty shell marriage

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Expressive role

Answer 4

Women form this where they provide warmth security and emotional support (Parsons)

Question 5

Extended family

Answer 5

The nuclear family has been extended vertically (via grandparents) or horizontally (2(+) brothers and sisters)

Question 6

False consciousness

Answer 6

Ways of thinking that are a produce of ideological forces of other groups

Question 7

Family

Answer 7

2(+) generations of people tied together through blood

Question 8

Family diversity

Answer 8

The differing forms of family organisation typical of modern Britain

Question 9

Family paths

Answer 9

(Bernard) highly varied and individual experiences people have in families according to age, gender etc.

Question 10

Fertility rate

Answer 10

Average no. of children women will have between the ages 15 and 44

Question 11

Fit, thesis

Answer 11

Evolutionary theory - family changed from extended to nuclear to provide a functionally fit family to adapt to the industrial society

Question 12

Gender ideology

Answer 12

Unspoken assumptions about the proper roles of men and women transmitted through socialisation

Question 13

Gender

Answer 13

The social and cultural attributes of men and women

Question 14

Gender division of labour

Answer 14

Husbands and wives’ different roles

Question 15

Glass ceiling

Answer 15

A metaphorical barrier to the progress of women in major organisation (Feminism)

Question 16

Household

Answer 16

A group of people not really related but share accommodation

Question 17

Hierarchy

Answer 17

Concept of stratification, ordering the social positions in a structure of superiority and inferiority

Question 18

Industrialisation

Answer 18

society moving from a predominantly agricultural base to a manufacturing one

Question 19

Instrumental function

Answer 19

Men play an instrumental function - the breadwinner role

Question 20

Isolated nuclear family

Answer 20

A family structure that has become isolated from wider kinship networks - due to industrialisation

Question 21

Individualisation

Answer 21

(Popenoe) suggests we place emphasis on self fulfilment rather than collective goals

Question 22

Infant mortality rate

Answer 22

Number of deaths in a population of infants under one years of age per thousand births

Question 23

Join conjugal roles

Answer 23

A relationship where both partners share domestic tasks and make decisions together

Question 24

Lone parent families

Answer 24

Families with a dependent child or children living with one parent, usually the mother

Question 25

March of progress theory

Answer 25

Collective name for social theorists (usually functionalists) who see the family evolving and adapting in a progressive way to fit the needs of society

Question 26

Marriage

Answer 26

A legal contract between two people of opposing sexes

Question 27

Marriage rate

Answer 27

The number of marriages among the population of a given area per year per 1000 total population;ation

Question 28

Monogamy

Answer 28

Relationship between one partner and another one at any one time