families and households

Question 1

what is a household?

Answer 1

1 or more person living at the same address, not just families

Question 2

what is a family?

Answer 2

related through kinship

Question 3

what is kinship?

Answer 3

relations through blood or marriage / civil partnership or adoption

Question 4

what is a nuclear family?

Answer 4

two generations living in the same household

Question 5

what is extended family?

Answer 5

large number of people usually three generations or more living together

Question 6

what is reconstructed family?

Answer 6

formed by adults who previously married and bring children from their previous marriage into the new marriage

Question 7

what is dual earning?

Answer 7

both parties contribute to the financial support of their household

Question 8

what is a single parent?

Answer 8

families containing only one parent

Question 9

what is a reconstituted family?

Answer 9

two families who join together after one or both partners divorced their previous partners

Question 10

what is the matrifocal family?

Answer 10

mother and father play a less important role in the home and in bringing up children

Question 11

what is a chosen family?

Answer 11

group of individuals who deliberately choose one another to play significant roles in each others lives

Question 12

what is dispersed extended?

Answer 12

less frequent contact between families and relatives

Question 13

what is a beanpole family?

Answer 13

a multi-generational family that is long and thin with few aunts, uncles and grandparents

Question 14

what is ideological state apparatus?

Answer 14

institutions like education, churches, family and the law which were formally outside state control but which served to transmit the values of the state

Question 15

what is a marxist feminist?

Answer 15

emphasises the way women are doubly exploited- both as workers in an unequal, exploitative capitalist society, and as women

Question 16

what is a liberal feminist?

Answer 16

recognises womens position in the family, with women taking responsibility for housework and childcare, can have effects on their power, career, and health

Question 17

what is a radical feminist?

Answer 17

focuses on problems of patriarchy in society + family
-Greer (2007) argues relationships in contemporary society remain patriarchal and exploitative
-radical feminists see family as only benefiting men
-their solution is to reject family and family life + men

Question 18

what is social policy?

Answer 18

plan or action put in place by government to tackle a social issue or improve peoples lives

Question 19

what is a cereal packet family?

Answer 19

nuclear family consisting of two married parents who are biological parents to their children

Question 20

what is an annulment?

Answer 20

a marriage was never legally valid or was legally valid, but meets one of the reasons that makes it ‘voidable’