families

• adolescence 


  the phase of life between childhood and adulthood, from ages 10 to 19
• agency of socialisation


  forces in a person's life that teach them about the world and their place within it
• arranged marriage


  a marriage in which the husband and wife are chosen for each other by their parents.
• attitude survey


  a research study conducted to understand consumers' thoughts, feelings and behaviour regarding a specific target
• bias


   a tendency to believe that some people, ideas, etc., are better than others that usually results in treating some people unfairly.
• bigamy 


  the offence of marrying someone while already married to another person.
• blended (or reconstituted) family


  when two families join together after one or both partners have divorced their previous partners.
• canalisation


  The way parents channel their children's. interests into toys, games and other activities. that are seen as gender appropriate.
• case study

  an intensive study about a person, a group of people or a unit, which is aimed to generalize over several units
• census


  an official survey of the population of a country that is carried out in order to find out how many people live there and to obtain details of such things as people's ages and jobs
• child rearing 


  the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood.
• childhood 


  the state or period of being a child.
• class deal (in relation to working-class women) 


  they would work hard in exchange for pay which they could then use to pay for consumer goods
• closed question 


  questions that can only be answered by selecting from a limited number of options
• cohabitation


  when a couple live together in one household but are not legally married
• commune 


  a group living situation where people share everything
• competition (in a variety of contexts)


  a contest between people or groups of people for control over resources
• confidentiality 


  the fact of private information being kept secret
• conformity


  the tendency for an individual to align their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors with those of the people around them
• conjugal relationships


  A conjugal relationship is one of some permanence, where individuals are financially, socially, emotionally and physically interdependent, where they share household and related responsibilities, and where they have made a serious commitment to one another
• conjugal role


  the separation of roles within the household based on the individual's gender
• consensus


  general agreement among a group of people
• content analysis


  a research method where the researcher attempts to codify or thematically analyse a written piece of work
• continuity


  uninterrupted duration or continuation especially without essential change
• conventional family

   nuclear families composed of legally married couples, voluntarily choosing parenthood of one or more children
• covert observation


  where the researcher is "undercover"; the participants are unaware that they are being observed
• crisis of masculinity


  uncertainties over social roles and identity, sexuality, work and personal relationships - and often manifested in violent or abusive behaviours towards self and others
•  data


  information such as facts and numbers used to analyze something or make decisions
• data analysis


  the process of systematically applying statistical and/or logical techniques to describe and illustrate, condense and recap, and evaluate data
• data protection


  legal control over access to and use of data stored in computers
• dependent family members


  family members who depend on other within. the family due to their age, or lack of money
• discrimination


  the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, age, sex, or disability
• divorce 


  the legal dissolution of a marriage whereby a couple are no longer legally bound to one another
• double shift (women in marriage)


  some women take on the role of breadwinner and have a domestic role
• double standards


  a set of principles that applies differently and usually more rigorously to one group of people or circumstances than to another
• dual career family


  a dual-earner couple where both partners are pursuing a career, that is, both are committed to work and perhaps also to progression at work
• dysfunctional family


  a family in which conflict, misbehavior, and often child neglect or abuse on the part of individual parents occur continuously and regularly
• economic function (of families) 


  the family provides an economic function to all its members by pooling resources and ensuring all have what they need.
• economy 


  the process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought in a country or region.
• egalitarian


  a philosophical perspective that emphasizes equality and equal treatment across gender, religion, economic status, and political beliefs