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21 Cards in this Set
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blended family |
a family whose members were once part of other families |
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cohabitation |
adults living together in a sexual relationship without being married |
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egalitarian |
authority more or less equally divided between people or groups (e.g. in marriage, between a husband and wife) |
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endogamy |
the practice of marrying within one's own group |
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exogamy |
the practice of marrying outside one's own group |
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extended family |
a nuclear family that includes other relatives such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins |
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family |
two or more people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage, or adoption |
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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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homogamy |
the tendency of people with similar characteristics to marry one another |
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household |
people who occupy the same housing unit |
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incest |
sexual relations between certain relatives, such as brothers and sisters or parents and children |
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incest taboo |
the rule that prohibits sex and marriage among designated relatives |
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marriage |
a group's approved mating arrangements, usually marked by a ritual of some sort (the wedding) to indicate a couple's new public status |
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matriarchy |
a society which women, as a group, dominate |
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nuclear family |
a family consisting of a husband, wife, and child(ren) |
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patriarchy |
a society in which men, as a group, dominate |
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polyandry |
a form of marriage in which women have more than one husband |
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polygyny |
a form of marriage in which men have more than one wife |
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romantic love |
mutual sexual attraction and idealized feelings about one another |
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Melvin Kohn |
found that the type of work that parents do has an impact on how they rear their children |
