Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
31 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
group of people who are related by marriage, adoption, or blood and often live together
|
families
|
|
|
what are two types of families?
|
1. nuclear family 2. extended family
|
|
|
consist of one or both parents and their children
|
nuclear family
|
|
|
person is born or adopted
|
family of orientation
|
|
|
consisting of the individual, his or her spouse, and their children
|
family of procreation
|
|
|
consist of two or more generations
|
extended family
|
|
|
refers to a network of people who are related by marriage, birth, and adoption
|
kinship
|
|
|
closest relatives, has 7 categories
|
primary relatives
|
|
|
has 30 categories
|
secondary relatives
|
|
|
great cousins, uncles, aunts; 200 categories
|
tertiary relatives
|
|
|
sociologists use this term to refer not to the marriage of the couple but to a set of norms that establish and characterized the relationship between married individuals
|
marriage
|
|
|
marriage to one man or one woman (industrial countries)
|
monogamy
|
|
|
marriage with multiple partners (pre-industrial countries
|
polygamy
|
|
|
man is permitted to marry more than one woman at a time
|
polygyny
|
|
|
woman is permitted to marry more than one man at a time
|
polyandry
|
|
|
"patri" means father, "locality" means location; lives with husbands family
|
patriotically
|
|
|
matri means mother, lives with wives family
|
matrilocality
|
|
|
allows the newly marriage couple choose where they live
|
biolcality
|
|
|
"neo" means new, set up residents apart from family
|
neolocality
|
|
|
when father dies son gets equal stuff, daughters marry off to a family where that son gets property
|
patrialineal descent
|
|
|
tracing of kinship through mothers family
|
matrilneal descent
|
|
|
kinship is traced through both parents, and property can be inherited from either side of the family
|
bilateral descent
|
|
|
father holds most of the authority
|
patriachry
|
|
|
mother holds most of the authority
|
matriachy
|
|
|
mother and father share most of the authority
|
egalitarian
|
|
|
a norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives
|
incest taboo
|
|
|
based on characteristics such as age, socioeconomic status, religion, and race
|
homogamy
|
|
|
marriage between individuals who have different social characteristics
|
heterogamy
|
|
|
families in which both husband and wife have jobs--and the growth of day care facilities has decreased the economic dependence of woman
|
dual-earner families
|
|
|
americans caught between the needs of their children and the aging of parents
|
sandwich generation
|
|
|
conscious choice to remain childless
|
voluntary childlessness
|
