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| The period of time when you physically and emotionally transition from childhood to adulthood is called adolescence. |
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| discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people |
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| A multi-generation extended family, in a pattern which is long and thin, with few aunts and uncles, reflecting fewer children being born in each generation, but people living longer. |
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| Civil union, also referred to as civil partnership or registered partnership, is a legally recognized form of partnership similar to marriage. |
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| a common law family is a family with a man and a woman live together for a period of time |
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| A commune is a group living situation where people share everything. Communes were popular with the peace-loving hippies of the 1960s. |
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| Active and contingent love, as opposed to the ˜forever` qualities of romantic love. |
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| Conjugal roles are the roles of the man and woman [husband and wife] in the home. There are two different types of conjugal roles that people can have: When husbands and wives share housework and childcare, decisions and leisuretime they have joint conjugal roles. |
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Household manufactures for home consumption prevailed as a system of domestic labor in rural areas prior to the era of industrialization
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/domestic-labor#ixzz2yZvZqtoj |
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| A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior, and often child neglect or abuse on the part of individual parents occur continually and regularly, leading other members to accommodate such actions. |
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| There is a discrepancy between the ideals of what marriage brings us as individuals and the reality of what marriage actually entails for many couples. |
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| A family group that consists of parents, children, and other close relatives, often living in close proximity. |
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Family diversity is a social term which describes the various types of family present in today's society such as: nuclear, single-parent, reconstituted and gay-lesbian. Alternatives to family life, especially in the UK, include: communes, single-person households and living in a kibbutz.
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| instrumental/expressive roles |
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| Expressive roles and task roles describe two ways of participating in social relationships. People in expressive roles tend to pay attention to how everyone is getting along, managing conflict, soothing hurt feelings, encouraging good humor, and take care of things that contribute to one’s feelings of the social group. People in task roles, on the other hand, pay more attention to achieving whatever goals are important to the social group (such as making sure the dinner is cooked in a family). |
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| joint/segregated conjugal roles |
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| segregated conjugal roles Segregated conjugal roles are those in which the husband and wife have a clear differentiation of tasks and a considerable number of separate interests and activities. Marriages where couples also have separate social ties and obligations tend to be less durable. |
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| The kibbutz, or kevuẓah (plural: kibbutzim, kevuẓot) is a voluntary collective community, mainly agricultural, in which there is no private wealth and which is responsible for all the needs of the members and their families. |
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Network of people who are related by marriage, birth, or adoption. |
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| The life course is a culturally defined sequence of age categories that people are normally expected to pass through as they progress from birth to death. Included in the cultural conceptions of the life course is some idea of how long people are expected to live and ideas about what constitutes “premature” or “untimely” death. |
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| Parsons and Dennis - argue that the functions that were once performed by the family have now been transferred to other more specialised institutions such as the National Health Service (NHS) or the education and welfare systems. |
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| Matrifocality is a concept referring to households that consist of one or more adult women and their children without the presence of fathers. Single-parent families headed by women, for example, are matrifocal since they day-to-day life of the family is organized around the mother. |
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| inheriting or determining descent through the female line. |
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The practice or condition of being married to only one person at a time.
b. The practice of marrying only once in a lifetime. |
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| a family unit consisting of at most a father, mother and dependent children. |
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| The dominance of men in social or cultural systems. |
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| is a form of polygamy whereby a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time. |
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| the practice of having more than one wife or husband |
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| the state or practice of having more than one wife or female mate at a time |
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| A post-modern family is one that has a household containing a mother, father and their children. It contains two adults, of different sexes, with one or more children that can either be products of the parents or adopted. |
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| Primary socialisation (or primary socialization) in sociology is the acceptance and learning of a set of norms and values established through the process of socialization. Typically this is initiated by the family. |
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| The Privatised Family is a family type that keep away from society.as no sense of community. They also |
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A reconstituted family is a term for the joining two adults who have children from previous relationships through marriage, cohabitation or civil partnership. Advantages include, Added income and reduced expenses on individual household budgets. Creates a team environment.
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| A rite of passage is a ritual event that marks a person's transition from one status to another. The concept of rites of passage as a general theory of socialization was first formally articulated by Arnold van Gennep in his book The Rites of Passage to denote rituals marking the transitional phase between childhood and full inclusion into a tribe or social group. |
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| a form of monogamy characterized by several successive, short-term marriages over the course of a lifetime. |
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| Social constructionism, or the social construction of reality, is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory that examines the development of jointly constructed understandings of the world. |
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A symmetrical family is a family that shares male and female roles. For example a woman will go to work just like the man will, a man will take care of these kids and so will the woman. It's basically sharing household jobs out fairly whether you are a male or female.
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| Urbanization (or urbanisation) is the increasing number of people that live in urban areas. It predominantly results in the physical growth of urban areas, be it horizontal or vertical. The United Nations projected that half of the world's population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008. |
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Combining separate stages in manufacture of a finished good /combining ownership and control of activities within separate markets |
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| Youth culture is "the sum of the ways of living of adolescents; it refers to the body of norms, values, and practices recognized and shared by members of the adolescent society as appropriate guides to actions".[ |
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