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Household

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  • person/people who live together in one dwelling

- increasing as the rise of individualism

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Kinship

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  • blood or marital ties between people

- extended ties are now less tight knit than the 1960’s

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Cohabitation

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  • couples who live together who aren’t married

- used to be living in sin but is now the normal

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Remarriage

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  • marrying after couples divorce

- steady increase in second marriages

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Reconstituted / Blended

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  • involves step parents and children

- increasing amount

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Extended

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  • includes grandparents and other relatives
  • horizontal is aunts, uncles and cousins
  • vertical is parents, grandparents
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Single Parent

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  • child raised by one parent in the household

- rise since 1960’s

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Single-Occupancy

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  • people who live alone

- creative single hood is choosing to be single

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Same Sex

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  • gay couples raising children

- the amount is rising due to legalisation of gay marriage, assisted fertility and social attitudes changing

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2004

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Civil Partnership Act

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2013

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Same-Sex couples Act

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Polygamous

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  • one parent has multiple wives

- legal in India, Egypt, Uganda

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Matrifocal

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  • structure involves women

- Black Caribbean British families are most likely

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Patrifocal

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  • focused on the father

- less common as 90% of single parents are mums

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Dispersed Extended

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  • nuclear family with a lot of contact with extended family members
  • contact by telephone or letters
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Beanpole

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  • tall and thin structure because less kids are being born

- Brannen coined the term

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Nuclear

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two heterosexual parents who are married with kids and live together

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primary socialisation

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social process that occurs between ages 0-4 in the family home where children learn the norms and values of society

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norms

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informal understandings that govern the behaviour of members of a society e.g. have a smartphone

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how are norms learnt?

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  • observing parents (unconscious socialisation)
  • imitating parents
  • being deliberately taught (deliberate socialisation)
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how do norms differ according to ethnicity?

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  • languages spoken
  • religious practises and rituals
  • different cultures eating differently
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values

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principles/standards of behaviour, a judgement of what is important in life (underpin the norms)

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secondary socialisation

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happens once children start to experience wider society, typically when they begin school, this varies in countries as education is culturally relative

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functionalism

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structural theory which views society as a whole with each part working together to form a functional system

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the value consensus

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all members of society and institutions work together and share agreements about how society should operate

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personality factory

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Parsons argued the nuclear family gives adults responsibility and matures them and gives kids stability and security

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distinct gender roles

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  • necessary and positive
  • instrumental role for father
  • expressive role for wofe
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human body

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functionalists liken society to the human body and call it the organic analogy

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triple shift

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women are expected to be workers, mothers and housewives (90% of women work)

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Murdock’s 4 functions of the family

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  • sexual
  • reproductive
  • educational
  • economic
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strengths of the functionalist approach

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  • value the importance of family
  • children are taught norms and values
  • consider society as a whole
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weaknesses of the functionalist approach

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  • ignore diversity
  • ignore the dark side of the family
  • doesn’t reflect modern society
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sandwich generation

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middle aged people with caring responsibilities both ways

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pressures/issues for mothers today

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  • balancing a career and family
  • prioritising education and a career
  • cost of childcare
  • intensive mothering
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serial fathers

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leave one family to create another

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pester power

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products are marketed at children as they are mini consumers

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functionalists on child centred society

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  • positive about canalisation as children learn gender roles

- industries create jobs and income so aids organic analogy

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feminists on child centre society

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  • critical of highly gendered, limiting toys

- girls are taught to value their appearance and often sexualised

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marxists on child centre society

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  • toy industry fuels capitalism

- commodity fetishism and pester power are a toxic mix

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issues of childhood in current society

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  • obesity is on the rise
  • the digital world is harmful due to violence and inappropriate content
  • eating disorders are at an all time high
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grandparents role

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  • role of historians
  • mentor
  • useful for single parents
  • practical and financial help
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3 types of divorce

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  • divorce
  • seperation
  • empty shell
43
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marxism

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  • structural and conflict theory

- capitalism is based on hierarchy and the bourgeoise

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honour killings

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Izzat is the main value for many minority families and is very strict on women if they marry outside the religion or without permision

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the new right

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  • believe in a meritocracy
  • father figure is needed for a good role model
  • nuclear family is essential

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