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What is a Household?
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A group of people who share the same residence but they dont have to be married. E.g students sharing a household for University
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What is the Nuclear family?
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A family consisting of an adult male and female with one or more children, own or adopted
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What is an extended family?
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A family containing reletives in addition to the nuclear family . An extention of the nuclear family
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What is a Monogamy?
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A system of marriage involving two adults, one of each sex
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What is a polygamy?
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A system of marriage involving two or more wives, or two or more husbands
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What is a polygyny?
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A system of marriage involving two or more wives?
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What is a Plyandry?
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A system of marriage involving two or more husbands
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What is a Reconstituted family?
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A family in which one or both partners bring children from a previous relationship
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What is meant by Cohabitation?
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When people live together as a partnership but are not married
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What is the functionalist view of the family?
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They feel the family is needed to help society just as like a human needs organs, society needs the family
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What are Murdocks family functions?
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Sexual
Economical Reproduction Educational |
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What is meant by the term concensus?
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A Functionalist theory based on the idea that societies need an argreement about norms and values
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What is primary socialisation?
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The first and most important part of the socialisation process whereby young people learn the values of society
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What is a function?
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The contribution a part of society makes to the well- being of society
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What is a dysfunction?
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The harmful effects that a part of society has on society as a whole
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