A societal arrangement whereby persons related by ancestry, marriage, or adoption live together, form an economic unit, and raise children

A residential unit of unrelated individuals who pool resources and perform common tasks of production and consumption

Two or more unrelated individuals who share living quarters

Individuals who live alone in their own separate residential units

The ability to control the spouse and to influence or control family decisions and activities

A concept developed by sociologist judith stacy that refers to an intact nuclear household composed of a male breadwinner, his full-time homemaker wife, and their dependent children.

Judith stacy's concept that refers to new family forms that have developed in response to economic upheavals and changes in women's work roles (particularly among working-class families). This family form includes divorce-extended families. It is comprised of ex-spouses and their lovers, children, and friends. These households expand and contract as adult children leave and then return home, only to leave again. The majority of these families have dual earners. Many now involve husbands in greater child care and domestic work than in earlier times. Kin networks have expanded to meet economic pressures.

A gendered and uneven relationship of work and family that reinforces traditional division of labor in both work and family. Despite the fact that more and more wives share the provider role, husbands do not often share the family labor. (for wives, a "second shift" results.)

Arlie hochschild's concept for the household labor that awaits working women in traditional married relationships and single women who are the heads-of-households upon their return home at the end of the regular work day. (gender is the basis for this tradition-bound division of labor.)