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What is a beanpole family?
A tall narrow extended family, consisting of 4+ generations
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What is a nuclear family?
A two generation family consisting of parents and their depended children
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What is a traditional extended family?
A three generation, matrilocal family in which the family members have frequent face to face contact
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What is a boomerang family?
A family in which non-dependent children return home to their parents
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What is identity?
How we see ourselves and how others see us.
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What is cohabitation?
Where people live together without being married.
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What is singlehood?
It is when someone remains single as a positive life-style choice.
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What is values?
It is idea's about what is worthwhile and important in a culture.
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What is a functionalist sociologist?
It is someone who thinks that society has roles to fulfill in order that society can survive as a whole.
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What is serial monogamy?
A person who has more than one marriage partner in their lifetime.
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What is a house-husband?
A man with main resoinsiblities for domestic tasks & childcare.
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What is a household?
One person living alone or a group of people who share the same address, one meal a day, or their living accommodation.
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What is patrilocal?
living with or near the husbands family.
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What is social roles?
Parts we play in society, each role has its own roles which tells us how we should act in that role.
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What is matrilocal?
Living with or near the wife's family.
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What is a divorce?
a legal termination of a marriage.
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What is domestic violence?
Threatening behaviour, committed by a family member against another.
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What is culture?
The way of life of a group of people, which is learned and shared.
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What is a reconstructed-family?
A family in which one or both partners have been married before and have step children.
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What is a symmetrical family?
A family in which conjugal roles are similar but not identical.
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What is a housewife?
An unpaid role which wives are financially dependent on their husband.
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What is child abuse?
Harm caused to a child under the age of 18 by an adult.
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What is conjugal roles?
The roles of a husband a wife who are living together.
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What is the dark side of the family?
A situation where family life damages its members.
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What is dual burden?
A situation where women combine the responsiblities of paid work with their mother/housewife role.
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What is family?
People that are related by blood, marriage, adoption, civil partnership or cohabitation.
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What is marriage?
A legally recognised tie between a husband and wife.
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What is neolocal?
A couple that set up their own home.
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A two generation family consisting of parents and their depended children

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What is a traditional extended family?

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What is a boomerang family?

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What is identity?

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