Families and Households: Key Terms

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Stable Satisfaction of the Sex Drive
The belief that monogamous relationships prevented the disruption and jealousy that would be caused by a sexual 'free for all'. (Murdock)
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Reproduction of the Next Generation
The biological reproduction that without, society cannot continue and this can only be achieved by a heterosexual couple. (Murdock)
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Socialization of the Young
Basic, primary socialization such as learning how to walk, talk, eat and a basic introduction to moral codes usually performed by the family. (Murdock)
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Meeting Members Economic Needs
The idea that the family acted as an economic unit by providing things like food and shelter for each other. (Murdock)
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Primary Socialization
Teaching children the norms and values of their society. A child only becomes an adult by internalizing the norms and values of their society and it benefits the individual as they have a sense of belonging based on shared values. (Parsons)
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The Stabilization of Adult Personalities
Is the emotional security which is achieved within a marital relationship between two adults. (Parsons)
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Warm Bath Theory
The husband gets stressed at work and so it is the wife's responsibility to (not literally) 'run a warm bath' to distress him when he returns home.
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The Family as an Ideological Apparaatus
The modern nuclear family functions to promote values and ways of thinking about capitalism that ensure the reproduction and maintenance of capitalism by promoting hierarchy and inequality as normal and promoting capitalism. (Cooper)
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False Consciousness
Peoples lack of awareness of their combined power and their exploitation. (Marx)
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The Family as a Safe Haven
The family provides comfort to exploited, alienated workers which enables them to carry on working because of the emotional support offered to them but also as a result of a renewed sense of purpose to motivate them (Zaretsky)
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The Reproduction of Labour Power
Chores associated with the traditional expressive role are necessary to 'keep the family going' and so women's unpaid work ultimately ends up benefiting the capitalist class as they only have to pay the male breadwinner a wage. (Zaretsky)
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Ideological Conditioning
The family is an authoritarian unit dominated by the husband in particular and adults in general. This authoritarian ideology teaches passivity and non rebellion and so people learn to accept their place in the hierarchy of society. (Feeley)
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Triple Shift
The idea that women have to do paid work, domestic work and emotional work.
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The Dark Side of the Family
Often refers to ideas surrounding domestic violence (predominantly aimed at women) and child abuse.
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Political Lesbianism
The idea that women should practice lesbianism regardless of sexual orientation as radical feminists view heterosexual relations as 'sleeping with the enemy'.
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Gender Equality
Male domination has been crrhallenged in all spheres of life. Women now expect equality both at work and home.
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Greater Individualism
The idea that peoples actions are influenced more by calculations of their own self interest than a sense of obligation to others
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Risk Consciousness
People constantly have to make choices, which means weighing up the costs, benefits and potential risks of pursuing one course of action over another. (Beck)
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Negotiated Family
A family which is more equal but less stable because there is far more scope for disagreement and conflict (which could lead to divorce) compared to the previous traditional nuclear family. (Beck)
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Pure Relationship
A relationship that exists solely to meet the partners' needs and is likely to continue so long as it succeeds. Couples stay together because of love/happiness/sexual attraction rather than tradition or sense of duty. (Giddens)
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Serial Monogamy
Where people go from one relationship to the next, rather than sticking with one relationship for life.
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Plasitic Sexuality
Refers to having sex for pleasure rather than conceiving children with your perfect marriage partner. (Giddens)
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Cohabitation
An unmarried couple in a sexual relationship living together.
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Civil Partnership
A legally recognized union of a couple with similar rights to marriage.
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Divorce
The legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or other competent body.
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Legal Seperation
An arrangement by which a couple remain married but live apart, following a court order.
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Secularisation
The decline of religion and tradition.
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Gender Roles
A set of societal norms dictating the types of behaviors which are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for people based on their actual or perceived sex.
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Empty Shell Marriage
Refers to when the spouses continue to live under the same roof but live as separate individuals.
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Genderquake
The idea that power is shifting to women from men.
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Individualisation
The consequence of social changes in late modernity, in which individuals are increasingly required to construct their own lives.
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Monogamy
Being in only one committed relationship at any given time.
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Organisational Diversity
Refers to variations in family structure, household type and differences in the division of labour in the home. (Rapoport)
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Cultural Diversity
Refers to variation based on ethnicity. (Rapoport)
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Class Diversity
Refers to the differences found between the working class, middle and upper classes in terms of how children were socialized and in terms of support networks.
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Life Course Diversity
Differences that are a result of being in different stages of the life cycle of the family.
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Cohort Diversity
Differences between groups of individuals born in different bands of years.
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Patchwork Family (Divorce Extended Family)
The family which is a result of adults life with a series of different partners and adds to the complexity of modern family life.
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Multi generational Family
A family where you have multiple generations living under the same roof.
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Reconstituted Family
Step- families, where a parent has gotten a divorce then chosen to re-marry.
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Kidult Family
A family when a grown up child still lives at home with parents.
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Reproductive Technologies
Includes contraception, IVF and egg freezing to allow people more choice over whether to have children and when to have them.
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Communications Technologies
Includes the internet, dating sites and social networking to allow people to live alone without being cut off from social interactions.
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Aging Population
The average age of the population is increasing so there are more older adults than younger children.
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The Conventional Family
The traditional nuclear family with segregated conjugal roles - a male breadwinner and a female homemaker
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The Neo-Conventional Family
A dual-earner family which is symmetrical - both spouses go out to work.
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Donor Family
Families that are united by donation of either organs or sperm/egg.
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Lone Parent Family
A family living under one roof with a single adult and a child/children.
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Social Stigma
A set of negative and often unfair beliefs that society has about something.
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Moral Panic
An instance of public anxiety or alarm in response to a problem perceived to threaten the moral standards of society.
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Blended Family
A family consisting of a couple, the children they have had together, and their children from previous relationships.
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Beanpole Family
A multi-generation extended family, in a pattern which is long and thin, with few aunts and uncles, reflecting fewer children being born in each generation, but people living longer.
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Forced Marriages
Where people are made to marry a person against their will.
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Cereal Packet Family
A certain type of nuclear which refers to the image most people hold of the family and is also the picture of the family that the media tends to present, especially in adverts.
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Segregated Conjugal Roles
Where couples have separate roles
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Joint Conjugal Roles
Where couples share tasks
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Active Fathers
Fathers who are highly involved with parenting but tended to look to their female partners to advise and assurance about parenting.
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Background Fathers
Fathers who do not spend much time with with the children and see childcare as primarily the mothers responsibility.
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Provider Ideology
Men's belief that their masculinity was tied up with being the main income earner.
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Paternity Leave
Paid time off work for the fathers after the birth of their child.
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Old Dads
Fathers who did not change anything when their child was born preferring to emphasis their role as breadwinner. (Kaufman)
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New Dads
Fathers who placed a high priority on involvement with children and made some minor adjustments to their work practices like getting to work later or leaving earlier and trying to juggle that and family duties. (Kaufman)
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Super Dads
Dads who actively adjusted their work lives to fit in with their family likes like changing careers and saw spending time with their children as most important. (Kaufman)
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Husband-Controlled Pooling
Shared money but the husband had the dominant role in deciding how it was spent. (Pahl)
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Wife-Controlled Pooling
Shared money most commonly found when the wife was better educated and earning more money. (Pahl)
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Husband Control
When the husband has the main or only wage and often gives his wife housekeeping money. (Pahl)
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Wife Control
Found in very poor household so money management was often a burden. (Pahl)
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Commercialization of Housework
Refers to the increasing number of new technologies which are available to help with housework such as hoovers, dishwashers and microwaves.
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The biological reproduction that without, society cannot continue and this can only be achieved by a heterosexual couple. (Murdock)

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Basic, primary socialization such as learning how to walk, talk, eat and a basic introduction to moral codes usually performed by the family. (Murdock)

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The idea that the family acted as an economic unit by providing things like food and shelter for each other. (Murdock)

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Teaching children the norms and values of their society. A child only becomes an adult by internalizing the norms and values of their society and it benefits the individual as they have a sense of belonging based on shared values. (Parsons)

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