Task in Sociology Booklet Flashcards
Beanpole family
A family type where three or four generations survive with only one or two children.
Cereal Packet Family
An idealised nuclear family where there is a breadwinner father, stay-at-home mother, a son and a daughter.
Civil Partnership
The 2004 Civil Partnership Act gave same-sex couples similar legal rights to married couples in respect of pensions, inheritance, tendancies and property.
Cohabitation
A couple that live together but are not married.
DINKY
Dual Income, No Kids Yet - A couple who are both working in well-paid employment and have a high disposable income to spend on themselves.
Extended Family
A family unit that includes a wider range of kin than the nuclear family that either live together or keep in close contact.
Family
A group of people related by blood, marriage, civil partnership or adoption.
Household
A person living alone or a group of people who have the same address and share one meal a day and/or living accommodation.
Kin
People related by blood or marriage.
Lone Parent Families
Families consisting of dependent children and one parent.
Marriage
The legal union of two people.
Monogamy
People are only allowed one spouse at a time.
Nuclear Family
A two generational family with one adult male, one adult female and their dependent children.
Polygamy
A pattern of marriage allowing more than one spouse at a time.
Polyandry - Woman with several husbands.
Polygyny - Man with several wives.
Reconstituted Family
A family in which one it both adults have been previously married and the children are living with a stepparent.
