Families and Households key terms

1. Parsons thory that with industrialisation the structure of the family beciomes nuclear to fit the needs of industrial society for a social and geographical work force (10, 3)
6. The negative stereotyping of people on the basis of age (6)
9. the tasks and activities that boys and girls see as the 'territory' of their respective genders (6, 7)
10. How someone who occupies a particular status is expected to act (4)

2. A group of people within society who share norms values beleifs a nd attitudes that are different to the main stream culture (10)
3. Where people assume that the state will support them, rather than relying on their own efforts and taking responsibility for their own families (10, 7)
4. A family that is vertically extended but not horizontally extended (8, 6)
5. An act in 2004 gave same sex couples similar legal rights to married couples (5, 11)
7. The number of deaths per thousand of the population per year (5, 4)
8. people who are not necessarily related by blood or marriage but who feel a sense of belonging together and choose to define themselves as a family (6, 6)

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