Families and Households - Key Concepts

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Beanpole Family
A Beanpole family is a multi-generational family that is long and thin with few aunts, uncles and grandparents. This is a result of extended life expectancy and fewer children being born.
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Birth Rate
The number of babies being born per 1000 per year.
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Civil Partnership
The Civil Partnership Act (2004) enabled homosexual couples to obtain a legally recognised way of binding their relationship. This enables homosexual couples to have some of the same rights as married heterosexual couples.
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Co-habitation
An arrangement where two people who are not married live together.
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Commercialisation of Housework
Where new technologies lead to new products which people can buy which reduces the amount of domestic labour people have to do at home – e.g. hoovers, washing machines.
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Death Rate
The numbers of deaths per 1000 per year.
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Dual Burden
When someone does both paid work and a significant amount of the domestic labour, such as housework at home. According to radical feminists, it is mainly women who suffer this.
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Economic Factors
Refers to things to do with money – for example how wealth a society is and the amount of wealth and income an individual or family has.
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Emotion Work
Thinking about the emotional well-being of other members of the family and acting in ways which will be of emotional benefit to others.
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Extended family
Family beyond the traditional nuclear family, incorporating aunts, uncles, and grandparents.
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Gender Norms
The ‘expected’ patterns of behaviour associated with masculinity and femininity.
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Gender Roles
The social positions and occupations we associate with men and women.
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Globalisation
The increasing interconnectedness of societies across the globe.
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Ideological Functions
Refers to the ways in which the ideas spread through institutions work to maintain the power of dominant groups in society.
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Individualisation
The process where individuals have more freedom to make life-choices and shape their identities because of a weakening of traditional social structures, norms and values.
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Instrumental Role
The provider or breadwinner role which involves going out to work and earning money for the family – the traditional male role within the family.
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Migration
Moving from one country or area to another.
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Negotiated Families
Vary according to the wishes and expectations of their members, who decided what is best for them by discussion. This is the typical type of family in postmodern society.
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Net Migration
The difference between the numbers of people immigrating to and emigrating from a country.
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Nuclear Family
A man and a woman and their dependent children, either their own or adopted.
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Patriarchy
A society where men hold the power and women are excluded, disadvantaged or oppressed.
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Postmodernism
The view that social changes (such as globalisation and more consumerism) since the 1950s have resulted in a world in which individuals have much more choice and freedom than is suggested by Modernists social theories such as Functionalism & Marxism
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Primary Socialisation
The first stages of learning the norms and values of a society; learning basic skills and norms, such as language, and basic manners.
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Serial Monogamy
Where an individual has a string of committed relationships, one after the other.
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Social Construction of Childhood
The idea that the norms and values and social roles associated with childhood are influenced by society, rather than being determined by the biological age of a child.
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Symmetrical Family
A family in which the roles of husbands and wives, although not identical are more similar.
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Total Fertility Rate
The average number of babies a woman will have during her fertile years (15-44).
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Toxic Childhood
Where social changes, especially the invention of new technologies, does increasing amounts of harm to children. For example, the internet and mobile phones results in screen saturation with increases anxiety and reduces attention spans.
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The number of babies being born per 1000 per year.

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Birth Rate

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The Civil Partnership Act (2004) enabled homosexual couples to obtain a legally recognised way of binding their relationship. This enables homosexual couples to have some of the same rights as married heterosexual couples.

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An arrangement where two people who are not married live together.

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Where new technologies lead to new products which people can buy which reduces the amount of domestic labour people have to do at home – e.g. hoovers, washing machines.

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