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What is the term used to describe a population where older age groups are growing as a proportion?

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An Ageing population.

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What is a beanpole family?

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When there are an increasing number of generations in a family but relatively fewer people in each generation.

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The term for the number of live births per 1000 of the population, per year.

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The Birth rate

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What is the Cereal image of the family?

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The stereotypical views of the family in common advertising, nuclear with a traditional division of labour.

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What are conjugal roles?

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The marital roles of husbands and wives.

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Define cohabitation.

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When an unmarried couple are in a sexual relationship and live together.

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What is the term given to the number of deaths per 1000 of the population per year?

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The death rate.

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What is the dependency ratio?

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The relationship between the size of the working population and the non-working population (e.g. children and retired workers)

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What is the study of populations and their characteristics called?

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Demography.

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What is the name given to families who are geographically separated but maintain frequent contact through visits and phone calls?

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Dispersed extended families.

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The term for the number of divorces per 1000 married people.

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Divorce rate.

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The term for the gender roles men and women play in relation to housework, childcare and paid work.

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Domestic division of labour.

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Define Domestic violence.

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Physical, sexual and psychological abuse between those in a family-type relationship.

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What is Emigration?

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Movement out of an area of country.

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What is emotion work?

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Emotional support which members of a family provide for each other e.g. offering sympathy.

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What is the expressive role?

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Where women act as homemakers and carers e.g. offering emotional support

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Which family type contains relatives in addition to the nuclear family e.g. grandparents, aunts, cousins ect…

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Extended families.

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What is a household?

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A person living alone or in a group of people who share a common residence.

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Define what family means.

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Consists of people who are related by blood or marriage.

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What is the infant mortality rate?

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The number of deaths among babies under one per 1000 live births per year.

21
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What is the movement into one area or country called?

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Immigration.

22
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What is industrialisation?

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The shift from an agricultural economy to one based on factory production - late 18th century.

23
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What’s the name given to men who go out to work and act as the financial breadwinner.

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Instrumental leaders.

24
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What is the name given to the movement of populations within a country?

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Internal migration.

25
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What are Kin?

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Relatives based on marriage or genes.

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What is life expectancy?

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How long on average someone born in a given year can expect to live.

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What are lone parent families?

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Families where a parent without a partner lives with their dependent children.

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What is migration?

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The movement of people from one place to another.

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What is the term given to a marital relationship where there is one husband and one wife?

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Monogamy

30
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What is a neo-conventional family?

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A “traditional” nuclear family containing a male and female, where both spouses work.

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What is a matrifocal family?

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a family where two or more generations of women are in the same household with dependent children.

32
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What is net migration?

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The difference between the number immigrating (coming in) and numbers emigrating (exiting).

33
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What N is the word for social rules or expectations?

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Norms.

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What is a nuclear family?

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A family where there is an adult male and female (usually married) with one or more children, own or adopted.

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What is the name for households containing people who live alone through choice or not?

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One person households (singletons)

36
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What is patriarchy?

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Male power, domination and control.

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What is the name for when someone is married to more than one partner at the same time?

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Polygamy.

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What is it called when shared norms and values (consensus) are transmitted to children through the family?

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Primary socialisation.

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What is a reconstituted family?

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Families in which one or both adults in a couple bring children from a previous relationship (step-families)

40
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What is a same sex relationship?

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Gay male and lesbian female couples living together in an intimate relationship.

41
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What is social control?

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Ways in which society tries to ensure that members behave s other expect of them.

42
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Define social policy.

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The actions and plans of government agencies such as health and social services.

43
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Serial monogamy is…

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when someone has a series of marriage partners/long term relationships over a life course, one at a time.

44
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What is stratified diffusion?

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The spread of beliefs and practices from social class to another e.g the symmetrical family has spread from the middle class to the working class.

45
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What is total fertility rate?

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The average number of children women have during their fertile years (15 - 44)

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What is the name given to the movement of populations from rural areas to towns and cities?

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Urbanisation.

47
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What are values?

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Ideas, beliefs, goals which people believe are important to aspire to.

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What is it called when there is agreement among society’s members about norms and values?

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Value consensus.

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