Family key words

Questão	Responda
Adolescence	Period between puberty and adulthood
Agency of socialisation	They are the social institutions that pass on to the people these norms, values, beliefs and attitudes
Arranged marriage	A marriage planned and agreed by the families or guardians
Bigamy	Marrying someone whilst still being legally married to someone else
Blended family	A family consisting of a couple, the children they have had together, and their children from previous relationships
Canalisation	Parental attempts to make sure children play with gender appropriate toys
Child rearing	Supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood
Childhood	The time when a person is a child
Cohabitation	An arrangement where two people who are not married live together in a sexually intimate relationship
Commune	Everyone helping in society
Competition	An event in which people compete
Conformity	When people adhere to social norms and values
Conjugal relationships	Sharing roles Whithorn a relationship
Conjugal role	Marriage roles
Consensus	A general agreement
Conventional family	It is the same as a nuclear family but they’re not married
Crisis of masculinity	When males think that they are getting dulled down
Dependent family members	When someone relies on family financially
Discrimination	Unfair treatment of a person or group
Divorce	The formal ending of a Marriage
Domestic division of labour	The split of husband and wife roles at home
Double shift	When someone looks after the children and goes to work
Double standards	A rule or standard of good behaviour that, unfairly, some people are expected to follow or achieve but other people are not
Dual career family	When both parents work
Dysfunctional families	A family in which conflict, misbehaviour and child neglect or abuse occur
Economic function	Families are the means whereby children are supplied with the necessities
Economy	The state of a country or region in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services.
Egalitarian	Equality for all people.
Empty nest families	When all of their children have left home
Empty shell marriage	A marriage where the 2 people don't love each other
Ethnic diversity	People that have different cultures
Ethnic group	A group of people that share the same culture
Ethnic Minority	A small ethnic group
Ethnicity	A shared cultural identity e.g. Language and cultures
Ethnography	The scientific description of people and cultures
Expectations	The at or state of expecting
Expressive Role	When women provide emotional support
Extended Family	Where there is more family members living together e.g. Grandparents, Uncles
Family	A group of 2 or more people linked by birth, marriage, adoption or cohabitation based on a long-term relationship
Family diversity	Different types of families
Feminism	conflict and power struggle between men and women
Feminist	someone that agrees with the views of a feminist
Functionalism	A sociological perspective that attempts to explain social structures by reference to the role that they perform for society as a whole.
Functionalist	Someone that agrees with the views of functionalism
Functionally import roles	Important roles that apply to everyone
Gender	A culturally determined identity
Gender roles	The role or behaviour learned by a person as appropriate to their gender
Glass celling	An invisible barrier that prevents women getting any higher in society
Idealisation	The action regarding or representing something as perfect or better than in reality
Image	Your impression of someone
Immigrant	Someone who has come to live permanently in a new country
Immigration	Coming to a foreign country in order to live there.
Income	The amount of money earned from work
Instrumental role	Behaviours that are goal oriented
Integrated conjugal role	Combined marriage roles
Interactionism	A theoretical perspective that focuses on small-scale everyday social interactions
Intergenerational	Different generations in one family
Isolation	To set someone apart from others
Kibbutz	Farm or factory in Israel where the workers live together and share everything
Life Chances	The opportunities that an individual has to share in the cultural and material rewards that a society has to offer.
Life expectancy	The average amount of time you are going to live for.
Lifestyle	The way someone lives
Lone parent family	A family that only has one parent
Male domination	Being overpowered by men.
Marriage	A cultural phenomenon that gives legal status to a union between two partners and any children they may produce.
Marxism	Ideas based on an interpretation of the ideas of Karl Marx.
Marxist	Someone who thinks that society's issues are due to the class system.
Mass media	All media e.g. Tv, radio.
Matriarch	Female dominance.
Matriarchal family	A family in which the women is dominate.
Middle class	Social class of business and professional people.
Monogamy	The practice of being married to one person at a time.
New male	Modern society male.
News Value	It determines how much it is worth by a media outlet.
Norms	What is said to be normal in society.
Nuclear family	a family group consisting of two married parents of opposite genders and their children.
Particularistic standards	When someone is judged the same way as everyone else.
Patriarchal family	A family dominated by men.
Patriarchy	When the men hold all of the authority over people.
Pluralism	Existence and tolerance of a variety of peoples opinions.
Polyandry	A women that has more than one husband.
Polygamy	Men that have more than one wife.
Polygyny	someone that has more than one spouse.
Popular press	It's a media outlet e.g. newspaper, magazine, TV show
Population	The number of people in one place e.g. The population of the U.K.
Primary Socialisation	The process of social learning within the family during a child's early years.
Principle of stratified diffusion	The poor copy the rich e.g. holidays.
Privatised family	A family type that has no sense of community.
Propaganda	Information to assist or damage the cause of a government or movement.
Quality press	The more detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports of business, cultures, and society.
Racial discrimination	Unfair treatment of a certain race.
Racism	Attitudes and behaviours based on negative stereotypes of a particular ethnic group.
Reconstituted family	A family consisting of a couple, the children they have together and the children they have from previous relationships.
Reliability	How trustworthy someone or something is.
Role conflict	Someone that is expected to play incompatible roles.
Roles	The part people play in society.
Rural	Countryside
Secondary socialisation	The process of learning what is appropriate behaviour.
Secularisation	Declining influence of religious beliefs.
Segregated conjugal roles	When the husband and wife have different tasks and interests.
Separate Spheres	An ideology about the segregation of the two spheres of life: the public and the private. The man was in charge of the public side whilst the women was in charge of the private side.
Serial monogamy	Having one partner at a given time, multiple relationships over time.
Sex discrimination	Discrimination in employment and opportunity against a person on grounds of gender.
Sex equality	The state in which access to rights and opportunity is unaffected by your gender.
Sexism	Discrimination based on sex and gender.
Social change/ changing social attitudes.	Any significant alteration over time in behaviour patterns and cultural values and norms.
Social Class	A division of a society based on social and economic status.
Social cohesion	Willingness to cooperate.
Social construct	An idea or notion that appears to be natural and oblivious to people that accept it.
Social control (formal)	Courts or judges, military, police officers, school systems, and government agencies or bureaucrats. They enforce formal control.
Social control (informal)	It is exercised by a society without stating any rules or laws. It is expressed through norms and values.
Social convention	Arbitrary(personal choice) rules and norms governing the countless behaviours all of us engage in everyday.
Social exclusion	The social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society.
Social inequality	The unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions.
Social mobility	Shifting from one social status to another.
Social network	It is made up of a set of social actors. e.g. Individuals or organizations.
Social order	Various componets of society work together to maintain the status quo.
Social stigma	Extreme disapproval of a person or group. Divorce used to be subject to this.
Social stratification	The way in which a society is divided hierarchically on the basis of various factors e.g. class, gender.
Socialisation	The process by which children learn to become human and adopt certain behaviours.
Society	A group of people with a common culture- the term is often used to describe nation, states, e.g. British society.
Status	Social position.
Step-parent	Someone that is married to one of your parents.
Sterotype	A fixed image of someone or a group.
Symmetrical family	A family that share male and female roles.
Technological change	The overall process of invention
Traditional family roles	The image that the dad goes to work and the mum stays at home.
Universal standards	They are judged by a clear measure of achievement that is also applied to everyone else.
Urban	Town and cities; sociologists often refer to social groups such as the urban working class.
Welfare state	A system where the state tries to protect the health and well-being of its citizens.
Work life balance	The division of one's time and focus between working and the family.
Working class	The social group consisting of people who are employed for wages.
World View	A particular philosophy of life or conception of the world.
Youth culture	The way teenagers live, and the norms, values, and practices they share.
Beanpole family	An extended family that only have one or two people in each generation.
The Industrial Revolution	Transition to the new manufacturing process in the period from 1760-1830.
Marital breakdown	Increasing numbers of separation, divorce, and dysfunctional families.
Adultery	Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who isn't heir spouse.
Social Isolation	The ideas that families isolate their children from the wider society and community.

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