Families and households

• Definition of family?


  A group of people who are related by kinship ties, which is relations of blood, marriage, partnership or adpotion
• definition of household?


  a person living alone or a group of people who live at the same address and share living arrangements
• what is meant by a social construct?

  Social phenomena that is created and varies from society to society
• Which sociologist are associated with the March of Progress view?

  Young and Wilmott
• is the triple shift?

  Emotional support, paid work, domestic labour
• what is the dual burden?


  Domestic labour and emotional support
• Whos is the main thinker in the New Right?

  Charles Murray
• Define the term family?

  A group of people bonded by blood or legal means
• What is a household?

  A group of people who live under the same roof, share bills and resources but are not related by blood or legal means
• What is meant by joint conjugal roles?

  Partners share the domestic labour and leisure time
• What is the post modernist view of the family?

  We create the family that suits needs at that moment in time