Family- Terms

Question 0

Dependency ratio

Answer 0

Relationships between the size of the working population and the non-working/dependent on the state population

Question 1

Instrumental role

Answer 1

The breadwinner, provider and protector, functionalist a argue that biologically this is a role of a male

Question 2

Underclass

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Those at the lowest level of class structure, below the working class- separate,deviant subculture and lifestyle

Question 3

Stigma

Answer 3

Negative label of disapproval, discredit or shame to a person, group or characteristic this leads to exclusion from social interaction

Question 4

Reserve army of labour

Answer 4

Groups that can be brought into the workplace when there is a shortage

Question 5

LATs

Answer 5

Living apart together- intimate relationship with a partner who lives somewhere else

Question 6

Triple shift

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Triple burden of housework, emption work and paid work

Question 7

Dependency culture

Answer 7

Where people assume the state will support them rather than relying on their own efforts

Question 8

Age patriarchy

Answer 8

Child liberationist say that children are the victims of adult domination

Question 9

Empty shell marriages

Answer 9

A couple continues to live under the same roof but as separate individuals

Question 10

Familism

Answer 10

Only focusing on the demands and needs of the family instead of personal interests

Question 11

Fertility rate

Answer 11

Average number of children a woman with have during her fertile years

Question 12

Divorce extended families

Answer 12

Members connected by divorce rather than marriage

Question 13

Toxic childhood

Answer 13

Cultural changes have damaged children’s physical, emotional and intellectual development eg video games

Question 14

Functional fit

Answer 14

With industrialisation the structure of family became nuclear to fit the needs of the industrial society

Question 15

Family practises

Answer 15

Routine actions through which we create our sense of being a family member

Question 16

Emotion work

Answer 16

Work involved in meeting the emotional needs of other people

Question 17

Structural differentiation

Answer 17

Because of industrialisation some of the functions of the family are lost and agencies such as the NHS carry them out

Question 18

Death rate

Answer 18

The number of deaths per thousand of the population per year

Question 19

Patriarchy

Answer 19

“Rule by the father”- male dominated

Question 20

Pooling

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Where both parents have access to income and joint responsibility for expenditure

Question 21

Conjugal roles

Answer 21

Roles played by the husband and wife- segregated roles where the husband is the breadwinner and the wife is the homemaker

Question 22

Separatism

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Radical feminists’ idea that woken should live independently from men to free themselves from the oppression

Question 23

Pure relationship

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One which exists solely to met each partner’s needs, couple stay together for love, happiness or sexual attraction rather than tradition

Question 24

Stabilisation of adult personalities

Answer 24

The family is a place where adults can relax and releas tensions enabling them to return to the workplace refreshed- warm bath

Question 25

Welfare state

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Government or state takes responsibility for people’s well being especially the minimum needs eg NHS, state education, council housing

Question 26

Unit of consumption

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Unlike the pre industrial family, the family no longer works together but still consumes together as a whole unit

Question 27

Ageism

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Negative stereotyping of people on the basis of their age

Question 28

Joint conjugal roles

Answer 28

Husband and wife each perform their individual roles but spend their leisure time together

Question 29

Civil partnerships

Answer 29

Civil partnership etc has given same sex couple similar legal rights to married couples in respect of pension, inheritance and property

Question 30

Allowance system

Answer 30

Men give their wives an allowance out of which they have to budget to meet the family’s needs

Question 31

Secularisation

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Decline of religion- process where beliefs, practises and institutions lose their importance or influence

Question 32

Segregated conjugal roles

Answer 32

Separate roles where than is the breadwinner and the female a homemaker, leisure time tends to be separate

Question 33

Neo-conventional family

Answer 33

Modern nuclear dual-earner family