Unit 4: Family
This unit offers candidates the opportunity to explore the sociology of the family, including definitions,structure, variations and alternatives, and changing roles and relationships within the family. This document contains definitions of the key terms for the unit 4 that are requir...
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‘A’ TO ‘Z’ KEY TERMS OF FAMILY (UNIT:4)
Arranged marriage: Marriage partners are chosen by older family
members rather than people choosing their own
marriage partner.
Beanpole family: A family with only one child or very few
children;combined with rising life expectancy this
leads to family trees that look very tall thin with
few people in each generaton,rather than
bushy,with lots of siblings,aunts,uncles and
cousins.
Boomerang family: A family in which the adult children have lef
home but then return.
Birth rate: The number of live births per 1000 people in the
populaton in one year.
Cereal packet family: The stereotypical nuclear family of mother,father
and children with traditonal gender roles that is
ofen shown in advertsements.
Child-centeredness: When the child’s needs and wishes are the most
important consideratons.
Civil partnerships: A relatonship between two people usually of the
same sex that has been formally registered giving
them similar rights to married couples.
Cohabitaton: Two people who are not married to each other
living together in an intmate relatonship.
Commune: A group of people who choose to live together
and share at least some of their property.
Conjugal roles: The roles taken by the husband and wife within
the family resultng from the domestc division of
labour.
Dark side of the family: The negatve aspects of family life such as
arguments,abuse,neglect and violence.
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, ‘A’ TO ‘Z’ KEY TERMS OF FAMILY (UNIT:4)
Death rate: The number of deaths per 1000 people in the
populaton in one year;also called the mortality
rate.
Demographic trends: Patterns in the changes of demographic
measures such as the birth rate and death rate.
Divorce: The formal,legal ending of a marriage.
Divorce rate: The number of divorces per year per 1,000
people.
Domestc division of labour: The way in which tasks in the home(such as
cooking,cleaning,childcare and repairs)are
divided between the man and woman.
Domestc violence: Violence within the family,usually but not always
by males against females;refers not only to
physical violence but also to patterns of
controlling behaviour that may include emotonal
manipulaton.
Dual burden: Women who do paid work as well as look afer
the home and family are said to have a dual
burden-the term ‘triple burden’or ‘triple shif’ is
also sometmes used,adding to work and the
home the expressive role of looking afer the
emotonal needs of family members.
Dual worker families: Families in which both the man and woman do
paid work.
Dysfunctonal family: A family that fails to carry out the functons
expected of it;for example,whare the children are
neglected.
Empty-nest families: Parents living at home together afer their adult
children have moved out.
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