Key Terms Flashcards
What is a household?
Either one person living alone or a group of people whose live at the same address and share living arrangements.
Most families live in a household but no all households are family e.g students that live together.
2014 - 28% of households consisted of people living alone.
What is monogamy?
Two individuals in a relationship.
Found in Europe, USA and most Christian cultures.
What is serial monogamy?
A series of monogamous marriages.
Found in Europe, USA, where there are high rates of divorce and remarriage.
What is arranged marriage?
Marriages arranged by pre td to match their children with partners of a similar background and status.
Found in the Indian sun-continent and Muslim, Sikh and Hindu minority ethnic groups in Britain.
What is civil partnership?
Gives legal recognition to the relationships of same-sex couples, giving them equal treatment to married couples.
2014 - gay and lesbian couples were legally enabled to marry on the same basis as different sex couples.
What is polygamy?
Marriage to more than one partner at a time.
What is polygyny?
One husband with two or more wives.
Found in Islamic countries e.g Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
What is polyandry?
One wife with two or more husbands.
Found in Tibet, among the Todas of southern India.
What is the nuclear family?
Two generations: parents and children living in the same household.
What is the extended family?
All kin including and beyond the nuclear family.
What is the classic extended family?
An extended family sharing the same household or living near each other.
What is the modified extended family?
An extended family living apart but keeping in touch by phone, letters, social media.
What is a beanpole family?
A multi-generation extended family, long and thin, with few aunts, uncles and cousins.
What is a patriarchal family?
Authority held by males.
What is a matriarchal family?
Authority held by females.
What is a symmetrical family?
Authority and household takes shared between male and female partners.
What is a reconstituted family, step family, or blended family?
One or both partners previously married, with children of previous relationships.
What is a lone parent family?
Lone prentice with dependent children, most commonly after divorce or separation.
What are gay and lesbian families?
Same-sex couple living together with children.
What is a single person household?
And individual living alone.
What is the family?
A group of people who are related by kinship ties: blood, marriage, civil partnership or adoption.
Family is one of the most important social institutions, found in all known societies.
It is a basic unit of social organisation, and plays a key role in socialising children into the culture of their society.
What is a dependency culture?
A set of values and beliefs, and a way of life, centred on dependence on others, particularly benefits from the welfare state.
What is the underclass?
A social group at the bottom of the social class hierarchy, whose members are in some ways different from, and cut off or excluded from the rest of society.
What are ideological state apparatuses?
Agencies which swerve to spread the ideology, and justify the power, of the dominant social class.
