Sociology of the Family – Key Words

Nuclear Family:

Functionalist View:

Consensus:

Social Control:

Primary Socialisation:

Gender Role Socialisation:

Marxist View:

Ideological Apparatus:

Unit of Consumption:

Feminist View:

Patriarchal:

Household:

Fidelity

Kinship:

Sexual Division of Labour:

Domestic Labour:

Nurturing:

Ascribed Status:

Extended Kinship Network:

Industrial Revolution:

Geographically Mobile:

Instrumental Leader:

Expressive Leader:

New Right:

Familial Ideology:

Cereal Box Family:

Maternal Deprivation:

Private Institution:

Demography:

Birth Rate:

Fertility Rate:

Death Rate:

Life Expectancy:

Migration:

Net Migration:

Population Growth:

Dual Earner Family:

Births Outside Marriage:

Childlessness:

Family Diversity:

Serial Monogamy:

Lone Parent Family:

Cohabitation:

Vertically Extended Family:

Horizontally Extended Family:

Homosexual Family:

Empty Nest Family:

Reconstituted Family:

Beanpole Family:

Elderly One Person Household:

Household:

Singlehood:

Marriage:

Divorce:

Empty Shell Marriage:

Conjugal Roles:

Segregated Conjugal Roles:

Dual Burden:

Triple Shift:

Patriarchal Family:

Symmetrical Family:

Childhood:

Social Construction:

Infant Mortality Rate:

Child-Centred Family: