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Section A: Individual, family and society Flashcards

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What are the four main functions of a family

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1) to produce children (procreation)
2) to rear and socialize children
3) to provide economic needs
4) to satisfy emotional needs

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What is procreation?

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Reproduction - the bringing forth of offspring

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What is fertility rate?

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The average number of children born to each woman in her lifetime

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What is economic function?

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Provision of basic needs: food, shelter, security, practical care, health care and education for all family members.

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What is a union?

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A union is the relationship between the adult partners in a family and includes legal marriage, common law, consensual and visiting relationships

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Divorce

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When a legal marriage is legally ended

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Legal separation

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When the couple no longer live together but remain legally married

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Monogamy

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Being married to one other person

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Polygamy

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(illegal in the Caribbean)
When someone is married to more than one other person

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A nuclear family

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Also know as immediate family includes two parents and their children

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An extended family

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Made up of two or more generations including relatives from outside the nuclear family living together

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A single parent

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Only one parent and his or her children

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A reconstituted or reconstructed family

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Two adults living with children from previous relationships

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A joint family

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A type of extended family in which married children and their partners and children live together often with the grandparents

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A sibling family

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Both parents are absent because of death or migration and older children look after younger ones

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What is family planning?

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Choosing how many children to have when and at what intervals and using effective contraception to prevent unwanted pregnancy

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Culture

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Patterns of behavior, social interaction, religion, belief, custom, tradition and ways of life of a people

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Folkways

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Cultural traditions and patterns of behavior established over a long period of time

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Social group

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Made up of two or more people who interact with each other share common interests, a feeling of identity or belonging and have common goals,roles and expectations

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Primary group

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Usually Small, members meet frequently and interact face to face, all members interact with each other

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Secondary group

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Larger than primary group, members interact less frequently and often indirectly or not with all the other members

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Formal group

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Has a clear structure, defined membership requirements,roles, leadership, common interests and goals, set rules and regulations

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Informal group

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Has no clear structure, no membership requirements and leadership may be temporary or changing, with changing goals, no set or written rules

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Voluntary membership

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When people can choose whether to belong

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Involuntary membership

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When they are automatically members

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A peer group

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Group of people of similar age.
It can mean a friendship group or a wider group in which people share interests, values and experiences.

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An interest group

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Made up of people who share an interest and may join in activities to promote or protect that interest

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An institution

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A formal secondary group with a particular purpose and enduring over time.

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Floating voters

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No allegiance to a particular party

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Constituted monarchy

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An independent country,governed by its parliament and elected government, but has a monarch as head of state.

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Republic

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An independent country with a president as head of state

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Crown colony

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Was a system of colonial government where the colony was ruled directly from Britain through a governor

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Government

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A group of officials elected by the people to conduct the affairs of the country

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A constitution

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The body of law or fundamental principles by which a country is governed and which sets out citizens rights and freedoms

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A democracy

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Citizens have freedom of speech. Many citizens have the right to vote and play a part in the government

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Authoritarian government

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One which governs according to its own wishes, ignoring the needs of the electoral

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Accountability

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The government is accountable to parliament,the judiciary and citizens, financially and in other ways.

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Arranged marriage

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The parents choose a spouse for their son/daughter

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Mores

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A group of norms which deal specially with moral behavior

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Trade union

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An organization formed by employees in a particular trade or craft who have come together to work to improve their wages and working conditions

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Family

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A group of people who are related by blood/not related by blood living under the same roof and supporting each other emotionally, financially, socially and economically

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Shot-gun marriage

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Where 2 people are forced to marry because of the occurance of pregnancy

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Marriage of convenience

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A person marries another because of wealth, status or position. The situation where someone decides to marry for citizenship

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Family tree

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A diagram used to show relationships among family members

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Matrilineal

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A line of descendants traced through the mother side

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Patrilineal

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A line of descendants traced through the father side

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Kinship

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Family/blood relations

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Common law

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Partners live together by mutal agreement without legally married

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Annulment

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Court declears a marriage is null and void

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Polyandry

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One woman is married to several men

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Polygyny

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One man is married to several women

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Bigamy

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Criminal offense of marrying a person while still legally married to another

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Social problems

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Undesirable behaviours and conditions in society

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Maintenance

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A legal arrangement after divorce for payment to a former spouse or family

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First Past The Post

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The candidate who gets the most votes in each constituency become member in the house of representatives

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