Marriage And The Family Test 2 Definitions

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Ethnic Group

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A set of people who are imbedded within a larger cultural group or society and who share beliefs, behaviors, values, and norms that are transmitted from generation to generation

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Conjugal Family System

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A family consisting of a husband, a wife, and children also called a nuclear family

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Consanguineal Family System

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A family system that emphasizes blood ties more than marital ties

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Family Cohesion

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The togetherness or closeness of a family; one of the three dimensions of the Couple and Family Map

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Family Flexibility

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A family's ability to change and adapt in the face of stress or crisis; one of the three dimensions of the Couple and Family Map

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Family Communication

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Interaction; sharing of thoughts and feelings; the facilitation dimension of the Couple and Family Map

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Ethnocentrism

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The assumption that one's own culture is the standard by which to judge other cultures

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Assimilation

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Adopting the cultural traits and values of the dominant culture

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Cultural Identity

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A feeling of belonging that evolves from the shared beliefs, values, and attitudes of a group of people; the structure of the group's marital, sexual, and kinship relationships

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Acculturation

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The intermeshing of cultural traits and values with those of the dominant culture

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Extended Family System

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One of the four major components of the sociocultural context in which families live; focuses on the degree of importance relatives outside the nuclear family have on the family's life

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Cultural Identity

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A feeling of belonging that evolves from the shared beliefs, values, and attitudes of a group of people; the structure of the group's marital, sexual, and kinship relationships

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Kinship

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The relatedness of certain individuals within a group. Cultures have norms and expectations that structure and govern kin behavior

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Nuclear Family

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A kinship group in which a husband, a wife, and their children live together in one household; also called a conjugal family system

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Social System

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One of the four major components of the sociocultural context in which families live; encompasses the influence of the community, laws, economic resources, educational opportunities, and other external factors on the family

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Race

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A group of people with similar and distinctive physical characteristics

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Belief System

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One of the four major components of the sociocultural context in which families live, centering on religious/ spiritual/ ethical beliefs and other ideas about how to live successfully and happily in the would

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Stereotypes

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A standardized, oversimplified, often foolish and mean-spirited view of someone or something

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Extended Family System

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One of the four major components of the sociocultural context in which families live; focuses on the degree of importance relatives outside the nuclear family have on the family's life

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Flexibility

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A families ability to change and adapt in the face of stress or crisis; one of the three dimensions of the Couple and Family Map

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Family Science

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An interdisciplinary field whose primary focus is to better understand families in order to enhance the quality of family life. Professionals whose main focus of applied or action research is the family tend to call themselves

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Family System

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One of the four major components of the sociocultural context in which families live; focuses on the interconnectedness of family members

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Role

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The expected behavior of a person or group in a given social category, such as husband, wife, supervisor, or teacher

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Self-Disclosure

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Revealing to another person personal information or feelings that individual could not otherwise learn

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Dating-Chapter 10

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A form of courtship involving a series of appointed meetings for social interaction and activities during which an exclusive relationship may evolve between two people

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Permissiveness

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The extent to which couples are physically intimate before marriage

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Double Standard

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Different standards of appropriate sexual and social behavior for the two sexes; the belief that premarital sex is more acceptable for males than for females

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Endogamy

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The practice of choosing a mate from within one's own ethnic, religious, socioeconomic, or general age group

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Exogamy

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The practice of choosing a mate from outside one's own group

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Mutual Dependency

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A relationship in which each person wants and needs the other person

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Sex-Ratio

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The relationship between the number of men and the number of women of a given age

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Homogamy

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The tendency to marry someone of the same ethnic group, educational, socioeconomic status, religion, and values

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Rapport

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The process of communication in which two people develop understanding and a sense of closeness

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Self-Revlation

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The disclosing of personal informaion about oneself