Key Term definitions - Changing patterns and family diversity Flashcards
Define Empty Shell Marriage
- a marriage where the partners stay together in name only, often for the sake of children or soceital expectations.
Define stigma
A strong sense of disapproval that society attaches to certain behaviours or groups, like divorces or single parenthood
Define dual burden
- the situation where women are responsible for both paid work and domestic labor.
What is individualisation
-the idea that people now have more freedom to choose their own lifestyles and relationships rather than following tradtional roles
Define seculariation
The decline in the influnece of religion in society, often leading to changing views on marriage and family.
Define Dependancy culture
- a term used to describe indidvudals who rely on state support rather than working or being self-sufficient.
What is Cohabitiation as Prelude to Marriage.
- living together before marriage to test the relationship’s compatibility.
Describe cohabitation as alternative to marriage
-choosing to live togther long-term without getting married.
Define the term Beanpole Family
- a multi-generational family srtucture that is long and thin with fewer siblings but more living generations.
Define the Dispersed Extended Family
-family members who live far apart but maintain frequent contact.
Define the Neo-conventional family
-a new version of the nuclear family where both partners work and share roles.
Define Organisational Diversity
-Differences in the ways family roles and responsiblities are structures (e.g joint vs segregates conjugal roles)
What is social class diversity?
- Differences in family structures and practises based on social class such as working clas vs middle class parenting.
What is Life Course Diversity?
- diversity in family life due to indiviudal choices and experiences across the life course (e.g divorce , remarriage, cohabiation)
Define the concept life course
-a sequence of socially defined events and roles that individuals enact over time.
What is serial monogamy?
- a pattern engaging in a series of exclusive, monogamous relationships over time.
What are matrifocal families?
- families which are centred around the mother, with little or no involvemnet from the fathers.
Define Extended Families.
- a family that included relatives beyond the nuclear family such as grandparents, aunt and uncles.
Explain the ideology of the Family
- the belief that the nuclear family is the ideal or ‘normal’ family structure.
What is the Modified Extened family?
-A family that doesn’t live togther but maintains strong support networks through frequent contact.
Define divorced extended family
- a family structure where divorced individuals maintain close ties with their ex-partners family.
Explain the Zombie Family concept.
- A concept suggesting that the family appears alive and supportive but is acutally fragile and unstable in modern society.
What is Life-stage diversity?
- Family structures that differ according to the stage people have reached in their lifes.
Define Cultural Diversity
- the variety in family structures and roles based on cultural, ethnic or religious backrounds.
Explain the concept genderquake.
- a significant shift in gender roles and expectations, often linked to womens’s increased participation in education and the workforce.
What is generational diversity?
- differences in family structures and vaules between differnet generations within a society.
Explain The Connectedness Thesis
- the idea that individual’s choices and actions are always influenced by their relationships and social ties.
What is the individualisation Thesis?
- a theory suggesting that people in modern society are increasingly free to choose their own lifestyles and identities, expecially in relationships and families.
Nuclear Family as Statistical Norm.
- the view that the nuclea family is the most common or standard family type in society.
Nuclear Family’s Ideological Norm.
-The belief that the nuclar family is the ideal or ‘normal’ model for families, often reinforced by media and policy.
