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Flashcards by dolly.d-xx, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by dolly.d-xx
about 12 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Society | A group of people who share a culture |
| Sociology | The study of human social life, groups and societies |
| Social Structures | The groups and institutions that make up society such as families, the education system and social stratification system |
| Social issues | Issues and problems that affect individuals, groups and communities in their daily lives such as fear of crime, inequality and poverty |
| Socialisation | The process though which we learn the culture and values of the society we are born into |
| Culture | The way of life of a society or group including its values, norms, beliefs and language |
| Social processes | Processes such as socialisation, social control and social change |
| Social Stratification | The way society is structured or divided into hierarchial strata or layers with the most privileged group at the top and the least privileged at the bottom |
| Dysfunctional | Broken family/home |
| Reconstituted | Remarried parent e.g. step brother |
| Single/Lone parent | One parent and their child/children |
| Nuclear/Cereal packet family | Two parent and their child/children |
| Extended (vertically) | Multi-generational household, grandparents/in laws |
| Extended (horizontally) | Same generational household, aunts and cousins |
| Empty nest | No children |
| Homosexual | Same-sex parents and their child/children |
| Monogamy | Marriage involving only two people of the opposite sex |
| Polygamy | Marriage involving at least three people |
| Polygyny | Where a man can have more than one wife |
| Polyandry | Where a woman can have more than one husband |
| Serial monogamy | Married to several people over a lifetime, but one at a time |
| 1971 | All marriages were at its peak |
| 1973 | Level of newly weds dropped |
| 1996 | There were 185,000 first marriages less than half the total in 1970 |
| 1945 | The number of divorce has increased since 1945 |
| 1970 | 63000 divorces in the UK |
| 1993 | 180000 |
| 2007 | 144000 |
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