Family: Key Words

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Household
This is a group of people who live together but aren't related.
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Primary Socialisation
This occurs in the early stages of your life when your parents and family teaches you the basic norms and values that your religion or culture deems appropriate. For example you get taught how to talk, walk and understand morals.
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Patriarchy
This is when a male is the head of the family
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Matriarchy
This is when a female is head of the family.
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Secondary Socialisation
This is when a variety of people or things could influence you in different ways such as friends, school, your religion and the media.
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House husband
This is when a male stays at home whilst the women goes off to work.
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Capitalism
This is the division of society into classes (for example the bourgeoisie and proletariat).
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Joint conjugal roles
When partners share housework, work, childcare, decisions and leisure time.
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Gender inequality
This is when men and women are treated unequally.
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Divorce
When a couple which are married go to court and ask to be legally seperated.
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Segregated Conjugal Roles
This is when partners do not share housework, work, childcare, decisions and leisure time.
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Cohabitation
This is when partners are living together but they're not married, however they're still in a relationship
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Conjugal Roles
These are the stereotypical roles of a man and woman (or husband and wife) in the home.
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Domestic Labour
This is the housework.
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Domestic Violence
This is the violence between partners.
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Breadwinner
This is the person in the family who earns money to support the family (usually the person in the family who earns the most money).
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Socialisation
This is the process of learning how to behave
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Informal Socialisation
This is when we are trained by friends and families
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Formal Socialisation
This is when we are trained by people who set out to change us.
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Labelling Theory
This is when people are labelled by other people and then they behave in that way.
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This occurs in the early stages of your life when your parents and family teaches you the basic norms and values that your religion or culture deems appropriate. For example you get taught how to talk, walk and understand morals.

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Primary Socialisation

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This is when a male is the head of the family

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This is when a female is head of the family.

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This is when a variety of people or things could influence you in different ways such as friends, school, your religion and the media.

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