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27 Cards in this Set
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family |
group of people who are related by marriage, blood, or adoption.. and live together |
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Nuclear family |
family consisting of one or both parents and their children |
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family of orientation |
nuclear family into which a person is born into |
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family of procreation |
individual, spouse and children. |
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extended family |
two or more generations |
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kinship |
network of people who are related by marriage, blood, or adoption. |
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marriage |
set or norms that specify ways in which family should be organized |
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monogamy |
one man and one woman marriage |
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polygamy |
marriage with multiple partners |
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polygyny |
man marrying multiple women. |
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polyandry |
woman marrying multiple men.` |
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patrilocality |
residential pattern in which newly married expect to live with the husbands parents |
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matrilocality |
newly married live with wifes parents |
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bilocality |
new married couple chooses to live with either man or wife's parents |
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neolocality |
newly married plans to live with both husbands and wife's parents |
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patrilineal descent |
decent pattern in which kinship is traced through the fathers family |
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matrilineal descent |
kinship traced through mothers family |
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bilateral descent |
kinship traced through both families |
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patriarchy |
system where men dominant over women |
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matriarchy |
family where mother holds authority |
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egalitarian |
family where mom and dad share the power |
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incest taboo |
norms forbidding sexual relations pr marriage between relatives |
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homogamy |
tendency to marry people with the same social characteristics |
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heterogamy |
tendency for individuals to marry people who have different social characteristics |
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dual-earner families |
family where both parents work |
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sandwich generation |
Americans who are stuck between taking care of their parents and children |
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voluntary childlessness |
conscious decision to remain childless |
