Key Term definitions - Changing patterns and family diversity

Question 1

Define Empty Shell Marriage

Answer 1

• a marriage where the partners stay together in name only, often for the sake of children or soceital expectations.

Question 2

Define stigma

Answer 2

A strong sense of disapproval that society attaches to certain behaviours or groups, like divorces or single parenthood

Question 3

Define dual burden

Answer 3

• the situation where women are responsible for both paid work and domestic labor.

Question 4

What is individualisation

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-the idea that people now have more freedom to choose their own lifestyles and relationships rather than following tradtional roles

Question 5

Define seculariation

Answer 5

The decline in the influnece of religion in society, often leading to changing views on marriage and family.

Question 6

Define Dependancy culture

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• a term used to describe indidvudals who rely on state support rather than working or being self-sufficient.

Question 7

What is Cohabitiation as Prelude to Marriage.

Answer 7

• living together before marriage to test the relationship’s compatibility.

Question 8

Describe cohabitation as alternative to marriage

Answer 8

-choosing to live togther long-term without getting married.

Question 9

Define the term Beanpole Family

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• a multi-generational family srtucture that is long and thin with fewer siblings but more living generations.

Question 10

Define the Dispersed Extended Family

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-family members who live far apart but maintain frequent contact.

Question 11

Define the Neo-conventional family

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-a new version of the nuclear family where both partners work and share roles.

Question 12

Define Organisational Diversity

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-Differences in the ways family roles and responsiblities are structures (e.g joint vs segregates conjugal roles)

Question 13

What is social class diversity?

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• Differences in family structures and practises based on social class such as working clas vs middle class parenting.

Question 14

What is Life Course Diversity?

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• diversity in family life due to indiviudal choices and experiences across the life course (e.g divorce , remarriage, cohabiation)

Question 14

Define the concept life course

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-a sequence of socially defined events and roles that individuals enact over time.

Question 15

What is serial monogamy?

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• a pattern engaging in a series of exclusive, monogamous relationships over time.

Question 16

What are matrifocal families?

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• families which are centred around the mother, with little or no involvemnet from the fathers.

Question 17

Define Extended Families.

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• a family that included relatives beyond the nuclear family such as grandparents, aunt and uncles.

Question 18

Explain the ideology of the Family

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• the belief that the nuclear family is the ideal or ‘normal’ family structure.

Question 19

What is the Modified Extened family?

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-A family that doesn’t live togther but maintains strong support networks through frequent contact.

Question 20

Define divorced extended family

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• a family structure where divorced individuals maintain close ties with their ex-partners family.

Question 21

Explain the Zombie Family concept.

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• A concept suggesting that the family appears alive and supportive but is acutally fragile and unstable in modern society.

Question 22

What is Life-stage diversity?

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• Family structures that differ according to the stage people have reached in their lifes.

Question 23

Define Cultural Diversity

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• the variety in family structures and roles based on cultural, ethnic or religious backrounds.

Question 24

Explain the concept genderquake.

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- a significant shift in gender roles and expectations, often linked to womens's increased participation in education and the workforce.

Question 25

What is generational diversity?

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- differences in family structures and vaules between differnet generations within a society.

Question 26

Explain The Connectedness Thesis

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- the idea that individual's choices and actions are always influenced by their relationships and social ties.

Question 27

What is the individualisation Thesis?

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- a theory suggesting that people in modern society are increasingly free to choose their own lifestyles and identities, expecially in relationships and families.

Question 28

Nuclear Family as Statistical Norm.

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- the view that the nuclea family is the most common or standard family type in society.

Question 29

Nuclear Family's Ideological Norm.

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-The belief that the nuclar family is the ideal or 'normal' model for families, often reinforced by media and policy.