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43 Cards in this Set
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Beanpole family |
One from each generation, grandparent, parent, child |
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Childhood |
Socially defined age status |
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Civil partnership |
Same sex couples have the same legal rights as married couples |
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Conjugal role |
Roles played by husband and wife |
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Culture |
The shared norms and values if a group |
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Demography |
The study of population |
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Dependency culture |
When people assume the state will support them |
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Domestic labour |
Work performed in the home- childcare and house work |
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Dual burden |
Women do paid and domestic work |
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Empty shell marriage |
A marriage in name only |
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Ethnic group |
People with a shared heritage or culture |
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Expressive role |
The caring, nurturing role in the family |
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Family diversity |
The idea that there are many ways in which families differ |
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Families of choice |
People not blood related, kinship networks |
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Fertility rate |
Average number of children women have |
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Functional fit |
The family fits according to the needs of society |
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Gender |
Social and cultural characteristics of men and women |
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Household |
A group of people who live together |
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Individualisation thesis |
Individuals are now free to make their own decisions- no longer bound by society |
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Infant mortality |
The number of infants who die before their first birthday per 1000 births |
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Instrumental role |
Money maker in family, provider role |
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Life expectancy |
How long on average a person lives |
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Net migration |
The difference between the number of people leaving and the number entering the country |
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Norms |
Social rules of behaviour |
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Patriarchy |
Rule by the father/ male dominated |
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Pure relationships |
One that exists purely to meet the partners need |
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Reconstituted |
Step- children/ parents/ half sibling |
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Role |
How someone who occupies a certain status is expected to behave |
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Secularisation |
The decline of religion |
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Social class |
Social groupings based on wealth and occupation |
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Social construction |
Where something is crested by society rather than occurring naturally |
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Social policy |
Actions, plans and programmes of government bodies |
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Socialisation |
The process of learning norms and values (primary or secondary) |
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Status |
Position in society (ascribed or achieved) |
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Stereotype |
A simplified, usually negative view of a group or individual |
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Subculture |
A group of people who share the same norms and values that may not be the same as the majority culture |
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Symmetrical family |
Nuclear family with similar but not equal roles |
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Triple shift |
Women do paid work, domestic work and emotional work |
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Underclass |
Group below working class with a distinct set of norms and values |
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Unit of consumption |
How the daily is seen in terms of what it buys and uses |
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Value consensus |
Agreement amongst society's members about what is important in society |
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Values |
Ideas and beliefs that are shared bu all |
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Welfare status |
Where the government or state takes responsibility for peoples well- being and basic minimum needs |
