General Family Knowledge Flashcards

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What are conjugal roles?

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All responsibilities carried out by a married couple.

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What are joint conjugal roles?

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When the responsibilities are shared instead of being segregated, as it traditionally was.

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What is the ‘dual burden’?

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The name of when women who do paid work and domestic chores.

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What is the ‘triple shift’?

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Women who do paid work, domestic chores and are the emotional support of the family.

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What affect did industrialisation have on families?

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Many families moved to the city in search of work (urbanisation). As a result, extended families started breaking apart and became more nuclear.

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What is the instrumental role?

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Where men are the breadwinners of the family.

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What is the expressive role?

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Where women were expected to look after children and the home.

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What does child-centred mean?

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Children were at the heart of the decision.

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What is the statistic for child abuse in the uk?

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1 in 5 children has been abused by a parent during their childhood

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What is the statistic for number of women abused by their partners in the uk?

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1 in 6 women suffer from domestic violence

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What is the symmetrical family?

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A term created by Young and Willmott, which describes a nuclear family whose spouses who are equally responsible for tasks and decision making.

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What does stratified diffusion mean?

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That what starts at the top of social stratification, will eventually spread to the lower strata.

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What is the warm bath theory?

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A theory by functionalist Parsons that describes home as a place where a family can be relieved from daily stressors and where one feels secure.

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What do Marxists believe is the family role of a woman?

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Marxists believe that the family role of a woman is to ensure that future generations will provide fit workers for the bourgeoisie to maintain the capitalist system.

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What does proletariat mean?

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The working class

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What does bourgeoisie mean?

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The middle-upper class

17
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What are feminist views on family?

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That conjugal roles aren’t equal and that women still do childcare and house-care, while men aren’t taking enough steps to change that.

18
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What are some important statistics of marriage?

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  • 65% of families in the uk are lead by married couples
  • The Civil Partnership Act 2004 granted same-sex couples the same rights are heterosexual married couple.
  • The Marriage Act 2013 granted same-sex couples the possibility of getting married.
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What is secularisation?

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Decline in religious beliefs.