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13 Cards in this Set
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Endogamy |
marriage to someone within one's social group |
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Exogamy |
marriage to someone outside one's social group |
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Monogamy |
the practice of having only one sexual partner or spouse at a time |
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Polygamy |
the practice of having more than one sexual partner or spouse at a time |
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Polyandry |
the practice of having multiple husbands simultaneously |
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Polygyny |
the practice of having multiple wives simultaneously |
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Nuclear family |
familial form consisting of a father, a mother, and their children |
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Extended family |
kin networks that extend outside or beyond the nuclear family |
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Cohabitation |
living together in an intimate relationship without formal legal or religious sanctioning |
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Kinship networks |
strings of relationships between people related by blood and co-residence (that is, marriage) |
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Cult of domesticity |
the notion that true womanhood centers on domestic responsibility and child rearing |
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Second shift |
women's responsibility for housework and child care-- everything from cooking dinner to doing laundry, bathing children, reading bedtime stories, and sewing Halloween costumes |
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Miscegenation |
the technical term for interracial marriage, sociologists generally prefer exogamy or outmarriage |
