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24 Cards in this Set
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Polygyny
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A form of marriage in which men have more than one wife
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polyandry
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A form of marriage in which women have more than one husband
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Family
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Two or more people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage, or adoption
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Household
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People who occupy the same housing unit
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Nuclear family
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A family consisting of a husband, wife, and child /children
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Extended family
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A family in which relatives, such as the older generation or unmarried aunts and uncles, live with their partents and their children
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Family of orientation
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The family in which a person grows up
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Family of procreation
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The family formed when a couple's first child is born
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Marriage
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A groups approved mating arrangements, usually marked by a ritual of some sort
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endogamy
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The practice of marrying within one's own group
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exogamy
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The practice of marrying outside of one's group
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Incest taboo
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The rule that prohibits sex and marriage among designated relatives
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System of descent
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How kinship is traced over the generations
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bilineal system
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(of descent) a system of reckoning descent that counts both the mothers and the father's side
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patrilineal system
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(of descent) a system of reckoning descent that counts only the father's side
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matrilineal system
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( of descent ) a system of reckoning descent that counts only the mother's side
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Patriarchy
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Men as a group dominating women as a group, authority is vested in mint
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Matriarchy
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A society in which women as a group dominate men as a group, afterward it is vested in females
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egalitarian
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It's already more or less equally divided between people or group, (in heterosexual marriage, for example, between husband and wife)
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Romantic love
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Feelings of erotic attraction accompanied by an idealization of the other
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homogamy
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The tendency of people with similar characteristics to marry one another
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Blended family
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A family whose members were once part of a families
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cohabitation
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Unmarried couples living together in a sexual relationship
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Incest
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Sexual relations between specified relatives, such as brothers and sisters or parents and children
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