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22 Cards in this Set
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polygyny |
a form of marriage in which men have more than one wife |
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polyandry |
a form of marriage in which women have more than one husband |
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family |
two or more people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage, or adoption
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household |
people who occupy the same housing unit |
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nuclear family |
a family consisting of a husband, wife, and children |
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extended family |
a family in which relatives, such as the "older generation" or unmarried aunts and uncles, live with the parents and their children |
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family of orientation |
the family in which a person grows up |
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family of procreation |
the family formed when a couple's first child is born |
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marriage |
a group's approved mating arrangements, usually marked by a ritual of some sort |
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endogamy |
the practice of marrying outside of one's group |
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incest taboo |
the rule that prohibits sex and marriage among designated relatives |
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system of descent |
how kinship is traced over the generations |
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bilineal system |
(of descent) a system of reckoning descent that counts both the mother's and the father's sid |
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patrilineal system |
(of descent) a system of reckoning descent that counts only the father's side |
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matrilineal system |
(of descent) a system of reckoning descent that counts only the mother's side |
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patriarchy |
men-as-a-group dominating women-as-a group; authority vested in the males |
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matriarchy |
a society in which women-as-a-group dominating men-as-a group; authority vested in the females |
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egalitarian |
authority more or less equally divided between people or groups (in heterosexual marriage, for example, between husband and wife) |
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romantic love |
feelings of erotic attraction accompanied by an idealization of the other |
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blended family |
a family whose members were once part of other families |
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cohabitation |
unmarried couples living together in a sexual relationship |
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incest |
sexual relations between specified relatives, such as brothers and sisters or parents and children |
