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Question	Answer
Residential unit consisting of unrelated individuals	Household unit
Family unit based on two generations	Nuclear family
A family containing more than the parents and children.	Extended family
Family relationships based on biology,affinity or law that form distinctive patterns and networks	Kinship
The formal,legal dissolution of a marriage.	Divorce
Involves the breakup of one family and it's reassembly as a new family.	Reconstituted family
Expression of the range of family types in a society.	Family diversity
Focused on women.	Matrifocal family
A shared household involving unrelated individuals living together.	Commune
Having a marriage partner at any given time.	Monogamy
A situation where an individual may be involved in sequential,sexually exclusive relationships.	Serial monogamy
When someone has more than one partner at a time.	Polygamy
One man married to a number of women.	Polygyny
One woman married to a number of men.	Polyandry
Any form of physical or verbal abuse towards family members.	Domestic violence
the development of industries which encouraged a shift from rural to urban societies.	industrialisation
The development and growth of towns and cities.	Urbanisation
An inter-generational vertically family extended structures with weak intra generational links.this structure develops in societies with low, declining birth rates and increasing life expectancy.	beanpole family
Work done within the home.	Domestic division of labour
The idea that women perform 'two shifts' one inside the home as domestic labourers and outside the home as paid employees.	Dual burden
Where a females double shift refers to women's role as domestic and paid labourers, a third element of female responsibility is the emotional work they do	Triple shift
The idea that something is performing it's function correctly.	Dysfunctional
Unequal relationships between males and females.	Gender inequality
Involving a clear separation between family roles	Segregated conjugal roles
Male and female roles played within the home.	Conjugal roles
Involve adults within the family sharing domestic labour	Joint conjugal roles
Relationship in which family roles are shared equally within the home	Symmetrical family
A relationship where two people live together as if they were married	Cohabitation
The ending of a legal marital relationship	Marital breakdown
Adult couple and children living together as a family without the adults being legally married	Common law family
Living as married people but without any legal ties	Partnership
Contemporary form of extended family,family members maintain contact but rarely live in close proximity to one another	Modified extended family
Female dominated family unit	Matriarchy
Socially variable period of pre-adulthood	Childhood
The idea that social institutions such as the family,education and work are closely related	Functional fit
Communal movement that developed in Israel after the second World war	Kibbutzim
Tracing ancestral descent through the female/Male line	matrilineal/patrilineal
The things that any institution,such as a family, must perform if it is to continue to function successfully	Functional prequisites
Situation in which functions that we're once performed by an institution are now performed by another institution	Loss of functions
Teaching and learning process carried out within the family	Primary socialisation
Structure that is home orientated,child centered and built on emotional relationships between adults and children	Privatised family
How people are connected to social network and what people do for each other	Social capital
How upper class children in particular learn self confidence, a strong sense of entitlement and self worth within the family that they can then apply in the workplace	Symbolic capital
The various purposes the family group exists to perform in society,such as primary socialization	Family functions
How people treat each other differently based on the value of their particular relationship	Particulartistic values
Values that apply to everyone	Universalistic values
Someone who combines paid work with their share of domestic labour	New man
Instrumental roles involve dealing with people in an objective way while expressive roles involve dealing with people on the basis of love and affection	Instrumental/expressive roles
Refers to the idea of love being contingent;it is given in return for something else	Confluent love
A measure of the no of children born to women of childbearing age in a society each year	Fertility rate
Discrimination on the basis of age	Ageism
Rituals that denote transitions from one phase in the life course to another	Rite of passage
Relationship between the economically inactive section of a population and those who are economically active	Dependency ratio
System of social ranking by age	Age stratification
People of a similar age who share certain rights and responsibilites because of their age	Age set
The examniation of differences anf changes over the course of an individual's lifetime	Life-course analysis
Behaviour that is culturally,rather than naturally produced	Social construction
Process whereby people withdraw from social relationships as they age	Disengagement
The decline of religious values in the modern industrial societies	Secularisation
When a couple continue to live together even though the marriage may be effectively over	Empty-shell marriage