Family

• Adolescence - Teenager (from puberty until early adulthood)
• Agency of socialisation - Any institution that teaches cultural norms and values (primary) 
• Beanpole families - A family with many generations but few people in each generation.
• Arranged marriage - A marriage determined by the elders 
• Bigamy - Marrying someone who is already married (being married to two people)
• Birth rate - The total number of births per annum
• Blended (or reconstituted family) - Two people who already have children from different relationships getting married 
• Breadwinner - The person who earns money for the family 
• Canalisation - Parents direct a child's interests towards activities/toys according to their gender to conform to societal gender norms
• Cereal packet family - The ideal family (nuclear with traditional gender roles)
• Child rearing - Parents teaching their children the rules of society. Raising children
• Child-centredness - The shift in the focus of the family to be revolving around the children.
• Civil partnership - Legally recognised union of people with rights similar but not identical to those of marriage. Often involving two people of the same sex.
• Cohabitation - A couple living together without being married 
• Commune - A group living together that share responsibility and possessions. More than a household. e.g. Kibbutz
• Conjugal roles /relationships - The relationship between husband and wife

  • Joint - partners have interchangeable + flexible roles. Both partners likely to be paid and split household work evenly divided
  • Segregated - partners have separate roles, the husband goes out to work and the wife stays home doing the housework
• Conventional family - Nuclear family with traditional gender roles 
• Crisis of masculinity - Men no longer know what it is to be masculine
• Death rate - Amount of deaths annually 
• Democratic relationships - Both partners have a voice/say in the relationship.
• Demography - Study of human population
• Dependent family members - Someone in the family who can’t support themself - they rely on someone else to support them (e.g. children, elderly)
• Domestic abuse - Emotional, physical or psychological violence from a partner
• Domestic division of labour - How labour is split between men and women within a family
• Divorce rate - The number of divorces per year 
• Dual-worker families - A family with both parents working 
• Double shift (women in marriage)/dual burden - When women have to do both housework and externally paid work
• Dual career family - A family with two parents, both working on careers
• Dysfunctional families - Families that aren't fully functioning often involves conflict/abuse or neglect
• Economic function (of families) - Murdock - the family provides economic support for each other. (Economic, reproductive, sexual, socialisation)
• Egalitarian - Everyone should be equal, have equal rights and opportunities.
• Extended family - Family beyond close relatives (horizontal or vertical)
• Empty nest family - A family in which the children no longer live with their parents 
• Empty shell marriage - A marriage with no love/ the relationship is solely legality
• Expressive role - The mother’s function - to provide emotional support

  (Functionalism)
• Family - A group of people related by blood, law or marriage. (Lots of different types)
• Family Diversity - The different types of family structures that we have within society
• Fertility rate - The average amount of children that women in society are having
• Gender deal (in relation to working class women) - Gender deal was that they should do domestic labour and give love and companionship to their husbands, in exchange for love and financial support - study is learnt in crime unit
• Gender roles - Sex-specific social and behavioural norms that are assigned to each sex by society