Key Vocabulary - Family

• What are the six types of families?

  1. Nuclear Family
  2. Extended Family
  3. Other distance relatives e.g grandparents living with parents and children.
  4. Reconstituted Family
  5. Lone - Parent
  6. Beanpole Family
  7. Different generations live together, with only a few in each generation.
  8. Same-sex family
• What are joint conjugal roles?

  • Couples share housework and childcare
  • take on jobs that traditionally belonged to other partner
  • Likely to be a dual-worker relationship
  • may spend leisure time together
• What was the function of the family during the pre-industrial period?

  Productive unit e.g. health care, education, welfare
• What was the function of the family during the industralised period?

  • Specialised functions e.g. socialisation
  • More state involvement for health care, education and welfare.
• What is the function of the family in the contemporary/modern family?

  • Support family members
• How were roles divided during the pre-industrial period?

  • Everyone worked together
• How were roles divided in the industrial family?

  • Man instrumental
  • Woman expressive
• How are roles divided in the contemporary/modern family?

  Shared
• Why was there a decline in marriage?

  • Changing role of women
  • Expense of marriage
  • rising divorce rates
  • secularisation
  • changing social attitudes
• Why was there an increase in marriage?

  1. Legal changes
  2. Divorce Reform Act 1969
  3. Value of marriage
  4. Status of women
  5. Changes in attitudes
  6. Changes in society
  7. Secularisation
• What is kinship?

  How two individuals are related e.g. by blood or marriage