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| Question | Answer |
| ageing population | population with more older people eg over 65 |
| ageism | prejudice against people due to age |
| arranged marriage | marriage set up by parents where couple do not know |
| Birth rate | no. babies born per year per 1000 of population |
| bisexuality | attracted to both genders |
| civil partnership | relationship between 2 people of same sex |
| classic extended family | family with aunts/grandparents/other members |
| communes | grass area outside estate/group in which possessions are shared |
| conjugal roles | roles in family |
| death rate | no. of deaths per year per 1000 of population |
| demography | study of human population |
| dependency culture | relying on state + others to provide |
| divorce rate | number of divorces in population in year |
| domestic labour | jobs to be done in house |
| dual burden | burden of unpaid + paid work |
| empty nest family | parents once children have left home |
| expressive role | women - emotions + stresses |
| extended family | other family members not nuclear |
| family | man + woman + kids, kinship group |
| family ideology | norms + values of ideal family |
| feminism | aimed at equality for women |
| fertility rate | number of babies per woman avg in fertile years |
| functionalism | sections of society work together |
| heterosexuality | attracted to person of opposite sex |
| homophobia | prejudice based on sexuality |
| income | money brought in |
| infant mortality rate | number of babies that die per 1000 born |
| instrumental role | breadwinner |
| integrated conjugal roles | shared tasks |
| interpretivism | based on meanings/emotions |
| kinship | family, related by blood |
| liberal feminism | things becoming more equal |
| life expectancy | how long average person lives |
| living apart but together | relationship separate houses |
| Marxism | society favours ruling class |
| Marxist feminism | society favours ruling class men |
| Matrifocal family | focused on female |
| minority ethnic group | smaller racial group |
| monogamy | 1 man + 1 woman |
| morbidity | rate of a disease |
| mortality | can die |
| New Right | support tradition |
| norms | how you are expected to behave |
| nuclear family | 2 parents- man + woman married, kids |
| patriarchy | males decisions |
| polyandry | 1 wife several husbands |
| polygamy | more than 2 partners |
| polygyny | 1 husband + many wives |
| primary socialisation | how to behave taught by family |
| privatised nuclear family | married man + woman, kids, no other connections |
| proletariat | working class who offer labour |
| radical feminism | patriarchal oppression |
| reconstituted family | step families |
| roles | things people do |
| same sex relationship | relationship with man + man/woman+ woman |
| secondary socialisation | how to behave shown by education/media |
| secularisation | decline in religious belief |
| segregated conjugal roles | clear differentiated tasks |
| serial monogamy | several partners one after another |
| sex | biological- man/woman |
| Sexism | prejudice based on gender |
| sexual division of labour | dividing what people do based on gender |
| singleton | not in relationship |
| social class | your position in society |
| social constructiom | made up by society |
| social control | rules + ways of controlling behaviour |
| social institution | major groups in society eg education/school |
| social mobility | moving social class |
| social solidarity | bonds that bring society together- transmit history + culture |
| social structure | way society is set up |
| socialisation | teaching kids how to behave |
| stigma | ideas of something as a bad thing |
| symmetrical | the same, equality in roles |
| triple shift | responsible for 3 jobs |
| value consensus | hared ideas of right + wrong |
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