SOCIOLOGY: Famillies and Households

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Family Diversity
many types of famillies in Britain like same - sex couples or reconstitued famillies
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Nuclear Family
a married couple with their children living together
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Extended Family
a family including a nuclear family, grandparents or other relatives
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Lone Parent Family
one parent looking after the family alone
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Reconstituted Family
also known as a step family - when 2 adults re - marry and bring children from the previous relationship into a new family
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Same - Sex Family
same gender parents with their own children or adopted children
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Family Life Course
how your family changes over the period of your life
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Conjugal Roles
the roles carried out within the house
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Beanpole Famillies
famillies that have fewer children but people are living longer
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Domestic Division of Labour
traditional roles: men - breadwinner, women - housework
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New man
cares about the family and pays attention to himself
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Role - Reversal Famillies
Roles are swapped: men - housework, women - breadwinner
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Joint Conjugal Roles
a couple shares the roles within the family
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Segregated Conjugal Roles
the women does the housework and the men does the earning
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Dual Burden
a women does housework and work outside
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Triple Shift
women work outside, do the housework and look after the children
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Invisible Work
women doing jobs that they are not realising
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Economic Asset
children use to work in the past for the family
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Child - Centred
the child is the centre of all the discussion
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Fertility Rate
the number of babies being born of the women at child-bearing age
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Life Expectancy
The average age that someone is expected to live
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Ageing Population
The average age of people is getting higher. There are growing numbers of older people comapred to younger people
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Cohabitation
couples living together as man and wife but are not legally married
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Secularisation
the term to describe religion is having less of an influence on people's lives
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Divorce
the legal ending of a marriage
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Patriarchol
male - dominated
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Dual Worker Family
famillies where both the man and the woman are in paid work
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Monogamy
the practice of only being married person at a time
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Infant Mortalility Rate
the number of babies who die before their first birthday
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Symmetrical Family
A family where the roles of men and women are equal and both parents share in the housework
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Card 2

Front

Nuclear Family

Back

a married couple with their children living together

Card 3

Front

Extended Family

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

Lone Parent Family

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

Reconstituted Family

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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