General Family Knowledge Flashcards
What are conjugal roles?
All responsibilities carried out by a married couple.
What are joint conjugal roles?
When the responsibilities are shared instead of being segregated, as it traditionally was.
What is the ‘dual burden’?
The name of when women who do paid work and domestic chores.
What is the ‘triple shift’?
Women who do paid work, domestic chores and are the emotional support of the family.
What affect did industrialisation have on families?
Many families moved to the city in search of work (urbanisation). As a result, extended families started breaking apart and became more nuclear.
What is the instrumental role?
Where men are the breadwinners of the family.
What is the expressive role?
Where women were expected to look after children and the home.
What does child-centred mean?
Children were at the heart of the decision.
What is the statistic for child abuse in the uk?
1 in 5 children has been abused by a parent during their childhood
What is the statistic for number of women abused by their partners in the uk?
1 in 6 women suffer from domestic violence
What is the symmetrical family?
A term created by Young and Willmott, which describes a nuclear family whose spouses who are equally responsible for tasks and decision making.
What does stratified diffusion mean?
That what starts at the top of social stratification, will eventually spread to the lower strata.
What is the warm bath theory?
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.
What do Marxists believe is the family role of a woman?
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.
What does proletariat mean?
The working class
What does bourgeoisie mean?
The middle-upper class
What are feminist views on family?
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.
What are some important statistics of marriage?
- 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.
What is secularisation?
Decline in religious beliefs.
