Sociology- Family

Question	Answer
Beanpole Families	A family with strong intergenerational links (between parents and grandparents.
Bigamy	Marrying someone whilst being married to another person.
Birth Rate	The number of births per 1000 each year.
Breadwinner	The person in the family who earns the money to support the family.
Cereal packet family	A husband and wife with their two dependant children (boy+ girl).
Child-centredness	Where the child's needs are the most important thing and come first.
Civil partnership	What gay couples get instead of marriage.
Cohabitation	A couple living together who aren't married.
Commune	A group of people living together, sharing possessions and responsibilities.
Conjugal roles-Joint	A married couples jobs around the home are similar.
Segregated conjugal roles	A married couples jobs around the home are different.
Death rate	The number of deaths per 1000 each year.
Demography	The study of statistics that illustrates the changing structure of human populations.
Domestic abuse	Abuse within the family.
Domestic division of labour	How jobs are divided within the family.
Divorce rate	The number of divorces per 1000 each year.
Dual-worker families	Both parents in the family work and earn money.
Extended family	A family which includes grandparents and other relatives such as cousins.
Empty nest	How a family lives after all their children have left home.
Empty shell marriage	A couple that are married legally but only through the name. There is no communication and it is like two strangers living in the same home.
Family diversity	The different types of the family.
Fertility rate	Births per 1000 women each year.
Generation	People born and living at around the same time.
Household	One person living alone or a group of friends living together.
Househusband	A husband doing the jobs around the home that a housewife usually does instead of going to work.
Housewife	A wife staying at home instead of working and doing all the jobs at home.
Lone-parent family	One parent living alone with their children.
Marriage rate	The number of marriages per 1000 each year.
Matriachal family	A family headed and full of strong women.
Monogamy	The act of being married to one person at a time.
New man	The male in the house doing more jobs around the home.
Neo conventional family	A dual working family where both parents go to work. The woman is employed outside the home rather than the traditional nuclear family.
Nuclear Family	A husband and wife with their dependant children.
Patriarchy	Where a family is headed by a male.
Polygamy	The act of being married to more than one person at a time.
Reconstituted family	Two families forming one, step parents and sibling.
Symmetrical family	The jobs within the home between males and females are similar, not different.
Traditional family roles	The roles people are expected to do in the home. Females are expected to do the invisible jobs. Males are expected to be the breadwinner.
Secularisation	The decrease in people believing in a religion.

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