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24 Cards in this Set
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What is meant by 'achievement'?
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1) Allocation of roles and status
2) Based on individual merit: qualifications |
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What is meant by 'ascription'?
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1) Allocation of roles and status
2) Based on fixed characteristics: gender/family you're born into |
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What is a 'Conservative' belief?
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1) Believing in traditional ideas/institutions
2) Weary of radical change |
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What is domestic labour?
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Housework and childcare
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What is an 'expressive leader'?
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Parsons' female function of housewife/mother
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What is an 'instrumental leader'?
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Parsons' term for male breadwinner
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Pre-industrial is...
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Before industrial revolution
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Define industrialization
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1) Between 18th and 19th centuries in Britain
2) Societies moved from agricultural production to industrial manufacturing 3) Huge impact: creating cities (urbanization); changing kind of work people did; altered social experiences and relationships |
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Define fidelity
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Being faithful to your partner
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Social solidarity is..
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Feeling of belonging
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What is an 'ideology'?
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Set of powerful ideas
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Define heterosexual
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Attracted to the opposite sex
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Define 'household'
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Social group sharing common residence
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What is the 'sexual division of labour'?
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Division of paid work and domestic labour into men and women's jobs
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What is meant by 'right wing'?
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Political ideas that support tradition
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A symmetrical family is..
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A nuclear family where both spouses perform equally important roles
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Define kinship
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Related by blood, marriage, etc.
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What are 'extended kinship networks'?
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Relationships between family members beyond nuclear family e.g. cousins and grandparents
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Geographical mobility is..
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Being able to move quickly around the country
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What is meant by an 'ideological apparatus'?
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Any institution involved in transmitting ruling-class ideas e.g. education and mass media
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Define the term 'nuclear family'
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Family group which consists of two generations: i.e. parents and children living in same household
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What is a 'mutual economic support system'?
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System in which family members work to support one another
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A maternal instinct is..
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A natural instinct to want motherhood and to care for children
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Nurturing is..
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Caring for others
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