Question | Answer |
ageing population | population with more older people eg over 65 |
ageism | prejudice against people due to age |
arranged marriage | marriage set up by parents where couple do not know |
Birth rate | no. babies born per year per 1000 of population |
bisexuality | attracted to both genders |
civil partnership | relationship between 2 people of same sex |
classic extended family | family with aunts/grandparents/other members |
communes | grass area outside estate/group in which possessions are shared |
conjugal roles | roles in family |
death rate | no. of deaths per year per 1000 of population |
demography | study of human population |
dependency culture | relying on state + others to provide |
divorce rate | number of divorces in population in year |
domestic labour | jobs to be done in house |
dual burden | burden of unpaid + paid work |
empty nest family | parents once children have left home |
expressive role | women - emotions + stresses |
extended family | other family members not nuclear |
family | man + woman + kids, kinship group |
family ideology | norms + values of ideal family |
feminism | aimed at equality for women |
fertility rate | number of babies per woman avg in fertile years |
functionalism | sections of society work together |
heterosexuality | attracted to person of opposite sex |
homophobia | prejudice based on sexuality |
income | money brought in |
infant mortality rate | number of babies that die per 1000 born |
instrumental role | breadwinner |
integrated conjugal roles | shared tasks |
interpretivism | based on meanings/emotions |
kinship | family, related by blood |
liberal feminism | things becoming more equal |
life expectancy | how long average person lives |
living apart but together | relationship separate houses |
Marxism | society favours ruling class |
Marxist feminism | society favours ruling class men |
Matrifocal family | focused on female |
minority ethnic group | smaller racial group |
monogamy | 1 man + 1 woman |
morbidity | rate of a disease |
mortality | can die |
New Right | support tradition |
norms | how you are expected to behave |
nuclear family | 2 parents- man + woman married, kids |
patriarchy | males decisions |
polyandry | 1 wife several husbands |
polygamy | more than 2 partners |
polygyny | 1 husband + many wives |
primary socialisation | how to behave taught by family |
privatised nuclear family | married man + woman, kids, no other connections |
proletariat | working class who offer labour |
radical feminism | patriarchal oppression |
reconstituted family | step families |
roles | things people do |
same sex relationship | relationship with man + man/woman+ woman |
secondary socialisation | how to behave shown by education/media |
secularisation | decline in religious belief |
segregated conjugal roles | clear differentiated tasks |
serial monogamy | several partners one after another |
sex | biological- man/woman |
Sexism | prejudice based on gender |
sexual division of labour | dividing what people do based on gender |
singleton | not in relationship |
social class | your position in society |
social constructiom | made up by society |
social control | rules + ways of controlling behaviour |
social institution | major groups in society eg education/school |
social mobility | moving social class |
social solidarity | bonds that bring society together- transmit history + culture |
social structure | way society is set up |
socialisation | teaching kids how to behave |
stigma | ideas of something as a bad thing |
symmetrical | the same, equality in roles |
triple shift | responsible for 3 jobs |
value consensus | hared ideas of right + wrong |
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