Sociology Aqa Gce unit 1 Key terms

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status
position in society
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achieved status
status you achieved in society
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ascribed status
status you were born with
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consensus
agreement
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solidarity
sense of togetherness
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class conflict
upper class exploiting working class
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matriarchal society
womens control
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patriarchal
mens control
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primary socialisation
learning norms, values, skills and basic culture of society, learnt mainly from family
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secondary socialisation
learning norms and values, from school and workplace, possibly in religious worship places
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Nuclear family
2 generations, man, women and their dependent children
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extended family
Any part of the family who are blood or marriage related that are beyond the nuclear such as grandparents, cousins, aunties and uncles etc.
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reconstituted family
a step family, in which one or both parents have a child from a previous relationship
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norms
rules that govern behaviour
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values
Tell members in society what is good and important in life, and what to aim for
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matrilocal
women household
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dual burden
women have to do paid work and unpaid domestic work
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pooling
shared access to money
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allowance
men give women a certain amount of money to spend
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demography
populations and their characteristics
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Birth rate
no. of live births per 1000 population per year
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death rate
no. of deaths per 1000 population per year
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fertility rate
average no. of children a woman has in her fertile years
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Infant mortality
No. of infants that die before their first birthday per 1000 live births per year
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dependency ratio
the relationship between the size of the working population and the non working
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immigrate
moving out of an area
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emigrate
moving into an area
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net migration
difference in no of people immigrating and emigrating
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March of progress
Gradually improving
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Household
a group of people living in a house together
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secularisation
decline in religion
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status you achieved in society

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achieved status

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status you were born with

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agreement

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Card 5

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sense of togetherness

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