Key Terms Flashcards
Primary socialization
Primary socialization: Socialization during the early years of childhood.
Expressive role
Expressive role: The nurturing, caring and emotional role.
Instrumental role
Instrumental role: The provider/breadwinner role in the family.
Privatised nuclear family
Privatised nuclear family: Self-contained, self-reliant and home-centred family unit that is separated and isolated from extended kin, neighbours and local community life.
Dependency culture
Dependency culture: Set of values and beliefs, and a way of life, centred on dependence on others, particularly
Ideological state apparatus
Ideological state apparatus: Agencies which serve to spread the ideology and justify the power of the dominant social class.
Repressive state apparatus
The Repressive State Apparatus: the army, the police, the judiciary, and the prison system. It operates primarily by means of mental and physical coercion and violence
Symmetrical family
Symmetrical family: A family where the roles of the husband and wife or cohabiting partners have become more alike and equal.
Family ideology
Family ideology: The dominant set of beliefs, values and images about how families are and how they ought to be.
Cereal packet family
Cereal packet family: The stereotype of the ideal family found in the media and advertising. Involves first-time married parents and their own natural children, living together, with the father as the breadwinner and the mother as the homemaker and caregiver.
Individualization
Individualization: The process whereby traditional social relationships, roles and beliefs lose their influence over the lives of individuals.
Confluent love
Confluent love: An active and conditional love, involves the building of trust and emotional intimacy between two people, adn is conditional in the sense that it lasts only so long as it meets the needs of both partners, as opposed to the
‘forever’ qualities of romantic love.
Pure relationship
Pure relationship: A relationship where a couple choose to stay together because it meets their emotional and sexual needs. It only lasts as long as each partner gains sufficient benefits to make its continuance worthwhile and not because of external pressures such as from kin, community or established social traditions and norms.
Secularization
Secularization: The process whereby religious thinking, practice and institutions decline and lose influence in society.
Domestic division of labour
Domestic division of labour: The division of roles, responsibilities and work tasks within a household.
Beanpole family
Beanpole family: A multi-generation extended family, which is long and thin, with few aunts, uncles and cousins reflecting fewer children being born in each generation, but people living longer.
Segregated conjugal roles
Segregated conjugal roles: The division of roles, responsibilities and work tasks within a household.
Joint conjugal roles
Joint conjugal roles: These roles show few divisions between male and female roles.
Dependency ratio
Dependency ratio: The relationship between the proportion of the population who are working and those who are dependent or not working.
