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age

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aging population

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arranged marriage

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ascribed status

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status you have from birth

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authority

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bean pole family

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family that is vertically extended

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birth rate

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number of live births per thousand of the population per year

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cereal packet family

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child centredness

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childhood

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socially defined age status

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civil partnership

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2004 Civil Partnership Act gave same sex couples similar rights to married couples

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confluent love

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cohabitation

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conjugal roles

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roles played by husband and wife

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culture

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all those things that are learnt and shared by society or group of people and transmitted from generation to generation through socialisation

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dark side of the family

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death rate

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number of deaths per thousand of the population per year

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demographics

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study of population, including birth, death, fertility and infant mortality rates, immigration, emigration, age structure

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dependency ratio

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relationship between the size of the working population and non-working population

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dependency culture

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where people assume that the state will support them, rather than relying on their own efforts and tasking responsibility for families.

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division of labour

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divorce

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divorce rate

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domestic labour

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work performed in the home

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domestic violence

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duel burden

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where a person is responsible for 2 jobs - usually women for paid work and domestic labour

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emigration

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empty shell marriage

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marriage in name only, where a couple continues to live under the same roof but as separate individuals

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expressive role

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caring, nurturing homemaker role in family

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extended family

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any group of kin extended beyond nuclear family

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false consciousness

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learnt ruling class values and beliefs through education, media and religion, which prevent them from realising how unfair capitalist society is

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family

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family diversity

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idea that there’s a range of different family types

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fertility rate

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total fertility rate is the average number of children women will have during their fertile years

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fit thesis

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with industrialisation, the structure of the family becomes nuclear to fit the needs of industrial society for geographically and socially mobile labour force

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gender

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social and cultural characteristics of men and women

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globalisation

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idea that world is becoming increasingly interconnected and barriers are disappearing

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household

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group of people who live together and share things

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immigration

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individualisation

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belief that the individual is more important than the group or community

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infant mortality rate

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number of infants who die before their first birthday per thousand live births per year

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instrumental role

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breadwinner or provider role in the family

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joint conjugal role

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husband and wife each perform both roles and spend their leisure time together

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kinship

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people related by blood, adoption or marriage

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life course

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approach focusing on the meanings family members give to life events and choices

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life expectancy

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how long on average people who are born in a given year can expect to live

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living alone together (LAT)

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couples who are in a significant relationship but not married or cohabitating

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lone parent family

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march of progress theory

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marriage

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marriage rate

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meritocracy

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social system where everyone has an equal chance of opportunity to succeed and where individuals rewards and status are achieved by own efforts rather than ascribed by gender, class or ethnic group

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migration

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involves movement of people from place to place

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modified extended family

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net migration

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difference between number of births and number of deaths in a population, resulting in natural increase or natural decrease

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neo-conventional family

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patriarchy

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society based on male domination

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primary socialisation

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pure relationship

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one which exists solely to meet each partners needs

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reconstituted family

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a step family, in which one of both partners has children from previous relationship

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roles

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how someone who occupies a particular status is expected to act

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secularisation

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decline of religion

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segregated gender roles

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where the husband is breadwinner and wife is homemaker, with leisure spent separately

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social construction

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where something is created by social processes

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stabilisation of adult personalities

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one of the two functions of nuclear family - place where adults can relax and release tension, enabling them to return to the workplace ready to meet its demands

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structural differentiation

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symmetrical family

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nuclear family with more equal and joint conjugal roles

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triple shift

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housework, paid work and emotion work

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toxic childhood

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warm bath theory

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underclass

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those at lowest level of class structure

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urbanisation

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process of change from rural society where majority of population lives in countryside to urban society where most people live in towns and cities

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