Sociology Chapter 4: Family

Kinship

family connections based on blood, marriage or adoption

Household

A group of people living together in the same residence and sharing the same living space. eg. a group of students sharing a house are called a household

Organic Analogy

An analogy that believes that society functions like the human body and the each ‘organ’ acts as a vital institution that works together for the overall survival of society. eg. the brain is the school

Anomie

When society becomes dysfunctional because institutions break down eg. If the family collapses, it can cause a domino effect, causing all of society to malfunction

Value Consensus

A broad term for the shared and accepted terms of agreement in society

Primary Socialisation

The first stage of socialisation and happens in childhood usually by the family eg. learn gender roles and manners

Nuclear Family

Married parents and their children

Single Parent Family

One parent and the children

Reconstituted Family

A step family. Where two adults join their families together

Extended Family

Where other family members such as aunts or uncles and grandparents, wither live in the same house or very closely to each other and take an active part on raising the children together

Empty Nest Family

Parents living at home together but children have grown up and moved out

Boomerang Family

Where children frequently move in and out of the family home. Either returning from university or relationship breakdowns

Beanpole Family

A family who come from many generations, but with few members in each generation

Conjugal roles

The roles taken by the husband and the wife within the family resulting from the domestic division of labour

Join conjugal roles

The husband and wife carry out many tasks and activities together, so that there is no clear separation of roles

Dual worker families

Families in which both the man and the woman do paid work

Symmetrical family

Families in which the conjugal roles have become more equal

Secularisation

the process by which religion has become less important in the daily lives of many

Empty shell marriage

A married couple continue to live together but without love or affection, usually because of other restrictions

Domestic division of labour

The way in which tasks in the home are divided between the man and woman eg. cooking, cleaning

Confluent Love

Meaningful relationships built on love and respect