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33 Cards in this Set
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polygny
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men have more than one wife
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polyandry
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women have more than one husband
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family
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consists of people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage, or adoption
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household
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consists of people who occupy the same housing unit
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nuclear
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husband, wife, children
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extended
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grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins in addition to nuclear
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family of orientation
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the family in which an individual grows up
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family of procreation
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the family that is formed when the couple has their first child
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marriage
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viewed as a group's approved mating arrangements
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endogamy
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its members must marry within their groups
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exogamy
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specify that people must marry outside their group
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incest taboo
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prohibits sex and marriage among designated relatives
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system of decent
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the way people trace kinship over generations
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bilineal system
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we think of ourselves as related to both our mother's and father's sides of the family
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patrilineal system
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tracing decent only to the father's side
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matrilineal system
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tracing decent only on the mother's side
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patriarchy
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social system in which men dominate women
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matriarchy
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a social system in which women dominate men
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egalitarian
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equal
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What needs do functionalists say that the family fulfills for the survival of society?
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economic production, socialization of children, care of the sick and aged, recreation, sexual control, reproduction
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role confusion
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incest taboo helps families to avoid this
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romantic love
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people being sexually attracted to each other and idealizing each other
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homagamy
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tendency of people who have similar characteristics to marry one another/occurs largely as a result of propinquity-spatial nearness
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boomerang children
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with prolonged education and high cost of living, children are going back home
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fictive kin
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people who have helped out in hard times are considered brothers or sisters
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machismo
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emphasis on male strength, sexual vigor, and dominance
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blended family
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one whose members were part of other families
(e.g.) when 2 divorced ppl bring children into a new family unit |
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cohabitation
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adults living together in a sexual relationship without being married
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commitment
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the essential difference between cohabitation and marriage
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skipped-generation families
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the main reason for this is that the parents are incapable of caring for their children
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sandwich generation
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people who find themselves sandwiched between 2 generations, responsible for both their children and parents
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serial fatherhood
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a divorced father maintains high contact with his children during the first year or two after divorce. As the man develops a relationship with another woman, he begins to play a fathering role to her children and reduces contact with his own
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incest
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sexual relations between certain relatives
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