Key Terms Flashcards
Primary socialisation
The process by which parents and other significant family members teach children to behave in a way that society expects and accepts.
Secondary socialisation
Socialised outside the family, eg schools.
Ethnocentricity
When the dominant culture of a society imposes their values and beliefs on other social groups.
Agent of Socialisation
Something/an institution that socialises people.
Geographical mobility
The physical movement of people and families around the country, usually in search of work.
Relative isolation
Less frequent physical contact with extended kin - behaviour is less likely to be influenced or shaped by other kin.
Urbanisation
The movement of people who had previously lived in the countryside to the towns and cities, often in search of factory work.
Consumption
The spending of money on goods and services.
The family functions as a major unit of economic consumption, buying a family car, kitchen appliances etc
Symmetrical
Young and Wilmott, 1970s = the symmetrical family had become the norm in Britain, with both equality of economic responsibility, childcare and domestic tasks.
A patriarchal family could be described as asymmetrical.
Alienation
Marxists believe workers experience alienation due to lack of control, purpose & satisfaction experienced in their jobs.
Reproductive technology
The scientific developments that help men and women with fertility problems have children e.g IVF
Matrifocal families
When women are the head of the family.
Fathers may or may not be present, but they occupy a secondary role to the mother.
Matrifocal families are thought to be more common in African Caribbean communities.
The Service Sector
Jobs that deal with providing services i.e nursing, teaching etc.
Genderquake
A term coined by Helen Wilkinson to describe the dramatic cultural change in women’s attitudes, causing them to have a radically different attitude towards women’s responsibilities.
Reproductive rights
The rights that women have over their bodies. These include the right to contraception and the right to abortion.
