Short Answers Flashcards
Demography
The study of characteristics of human population, such as their size and structure and how these changes happened over time
New Right
A perspective which believe very strongly in traditional values. They tend to be against change and support conservatism within the family
Family Ideology
The view that the family should be particular, e.g. the nuclear family, marriage, male breadwinner etc.
Social Control
The process of persuading, encouraging and enforcing conformity.
Sexual Division of Labour
The distribution of childcare and household tasks according to gender.
Functional Prerequisites
The basic needs of society, such as the need for social order within the family.
Feminization of the Economy
An economical trend that began in the 1990s, whereby the majority of newly available jobs were aimed at women.
Consensus
A common agreement on shared values in society.
Ascribed Status
A status which is inherited and passed on through generations.
Symmetrical Family
A nuclear family in which both spouses preform equally important roles with the family. e.g. housework, childcare, paid work.
Sexual Division of Labour
The division of both paid work and domestic labour into men and women’s jobs.
Nuclear Family
A family group consisting of two generations, e.g. parents and children; living in the same household.
Ideological State Apparatus
The transmission of ruling class ideologies through the medium of institutions like the education system, mass media etc..
Secularization
The process whereby religious thinking, practice and institutions lose social significance.
Privatized Nuclear Family
A home centered family hat has little contact with extended kin or neighbours.
Modified Extended Family
A family type where related nuclear families, although living apart geographically they still maintain regular contact. additionally offering mutual support, e.g. telephone calls, e-mails and letters.
Child-Centered
Treating the needs of children as priority.
Communes
Self-contained and self-supporting communities, where all members of the community shares the property, childcare, house-hold task and living accommodation.
Irretrievable
Broken down forever or, unable to recover.
Monogamy
The practice of only having one partner. (marriage)
Serial Monogamy
A series of long-term relationships.
Bean-pole Family
A multi-generation extended family, in a pattern which is long and thin. (dominant in Asian households)
Domestic Labour
Mainly referred to the isolation of female in tradition roles of the family e.g. housework and childcare.
Expressive Leader
Parsons’ term for the female function of mother/housewife. The nurturing, caring and emotional role. Functionalist view that women’s role is ‘natural’ through biology.
