Key terms:

Question 1

Define Beliefs:

Answer 1

Social opinions and attitudes shared by society’s members.

Question 2

Define Values:

Answer 2

Focus on a belief that is something good and desirable - what is right and wrong.
e.g. Murder is wrong

Question 3

Define Norms:

Answer 3

Rules of behaviour relating to specific social situations - expected way of behaving.

Question 4

Define family diversity:

Answer 4

Range of different family types existing in society rather than one dominant structure.

Question 5

What is a cereal packet family?

Answer 5

A married heterosexual couple with 2 kids, one girl and one boy. Boy is older.

Question 6

What is a classic extended family?

Answer 6

Any group of kin beyond the nuclear family who live in the same household.

Question 7

Define a beanpole family:

Answer 7

4 generation or multi-generational family that are long and thin in structure

Question 8

Define a reconstituted family:

Answer 8

Step family where one or both partners have a child from previous relationship.