SOC Families: Key term definitions quiz

Transitional stage between childhood and adulthood (roughly ages 12-18) marked by physical, emotional and social development.

• Gender roles
• Adolescence
• Conjugal relationships
• Family

Marriage in which families or matchmakers choose the partners, but the couple still give consent.

• Dual-career family
• Arranged marriage
• Social class / socio-economic class
• Double shift

Family formed when partners with children from previous relationships live together, creating step-relationships.

• Blended / reconstituted family
• Conventional family
• Step-parent
• Dual-career family

Process whereby parents and others steer children toward gender-typical toys, clothes and activities.

• Canalization
• Social change / changing social attitudes
• Blended / reconstituted family
• Working class

Day-to-day practices of bringing up children, including care, discipline and teaching norms and values.

• Child rearing
• Stereotype
• Privatised (nuclear family)
• Family

Socially defined life stage of dependence and protection from birth to adolescence.

• Polygamy
• Childhood
• Matriarchal family
• Traditional family roles

Unmarried couple living together in an intimate partnership.

• Privatised (nuclear family)
• Nuclear family
• Stereotype
• Cohabitation

Relationship between married or cohabiting partners.

• Social class / socio-economic class
• Egalitarian (family relationships)
• Separate spheres
• Conjugal relationships

Expected duties and responsibilities of each partner within marriage or cohabitation.

• Conjugal role
• Childhood
• Work–life balance
• Traditional family roles

Broad agreement in society about basic norms and values.

• Consensus
• Economic function (of families)
• Dysfunctional family
• Symmetrical family