The Family and Social Change

Keywords

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Production Unit
A group of people involved in the production of goods and service.
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Cottage Industry
The production of goods in the home.
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Kinship-based Society
A society in which social institutions and people's roles are largely organised on the basis of kinship relationships.
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Lineage
A social group made up of people descended from a common ancestor.
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Multifunctional
Performing a number of functions.
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Industrialisation
The move to the production of manufactured goods in factories.
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Urbanisation
The increasing proportion of people living in urban areas.
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Isolated Nuclear Family
A married couple and their children who are largely independent from the wider kinship network.
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Symmetrical Family
A nuclear family in which the roles of husband and wife are increasingly similar. It is home-centred, privatised and self-contained.
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Stratified Diffusion
The spread of ideas and behaviour through the class system from top to bottom.
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Modified Extended Family
A weaker version of the traditional extended family. Members don't usually share the same household. Contact is regular and services are exchanged.
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Unit of Consumption
A group of people who consume goods and services as a unit.
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Card 2

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The production of goods in the home.

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Cottage Industry

Card 3

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A society in which social institutions and people's roles are largely organised on the basis of kinship relationships.

Back

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Card 4

Front

A social group made up of people descended from a common ancestor.

Back

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Card 5

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Performing a number of functions.

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