Soci 2270: Families Changing Trends In Canada 6Th Edition Glossery

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Bilateral (inheritance)

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reckoned from both the mother's and father's side of the family.

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Bilocal (referring to residence)

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married couple lives with either the husband's or the wife's extended kin.

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Biological Parenthood

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parental relationships defined by insemination and the bearing and birthing of children.

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Breadwinner Family

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one income family where the children and one or more adults are economically dependent on one breadwinner.

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Cohabitation

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sharing a bedroom most nights for more than three months with an unrelated adult (i.e., by blood or marriage)

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Composite Household

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a number of nuclear families living together in a single household: can be polygamous, joint, or stem families.

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Conjugal Family

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a wife-husband family where marriage is central and which may or may not include children.

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Cross-Cousin Marriage

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marriage of the children of different sex siblings.

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Economic Co-operation

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patterns of sharing material resources within families on a daily and yearly basis.

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Endogamy

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the rule that people marry only within their socially defined groups.

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Exogamy

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the rule that people must marry outside of a defined group.

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Extended Family

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a family made up of a nuclear family plus other relatives.

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Homogamy

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the tendency to choose a spouse with similar social characteristics (e.g., age social class, religion, locale) to oneself.

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Hypergamy

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marriage to someone of a higher social status: e.g., In our culture, women often try to marry men who are older, taller, and with a better occupation/income than they have (or are) themselves.

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Hypogamy

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marriage to someone of a lower social status (which can be defined by age, income, or other status markers).

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Incest Taboo

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a social prohibition against sexual intercourse and marriage with designated others.

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Joint Family

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the family id defined by 2 or more adult siblings living together or nearby, along with their wives/husbands and children.

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Kin

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people who are related either by birth or by marriage, including (in some cultures) fictive kin.

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Kinship

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relationship among people on the basis of descent from common ancestors, or marriage, or adoption.

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Matriarchy

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the dominance and power of women over men in the family and in other social institutions.

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Matrilineal

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a descent system in which a person belongs to his mother's line of descent.

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Matrilocal

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residence of a newly married couple to live with the wife's extended kin.

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Monogamy

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the rule limiting each person to only one spouse at a time.

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Neolocal

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residence of a newly married couple is separate from either of their families of origin.

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Nuclear Family

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a two generation family that includes parent(s) and children

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Parallel Cousin Marriage

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marriage of the children of same-sex siblings

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Patriarchy

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the socially legitimated use of power by a father over other members of his household and the dominance of men over women within society.

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Patrilineal

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a descent system where a persons belongs to this father's line of descent

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Patrilocal

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married couple lives with the husband's extended kin.

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Polyandry

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the marriage of one woman to more than one husband.

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Polygamy

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a family in which one man or one woman is married to more than one wives or husbands.

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Polygyny

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the marriage of one man to more than one wife.

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Procreation

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usually referring to child-bearing and adoption rules and rituals.

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Social Institution

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a well-established pattern of social relationships that is accepted as a fundamental part of society (e.g., the family).

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Social Parenthood

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parenthood based on the act of "raising" a child.

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Social Reproduction

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the work and activities necessary to the maintenance of family life, including child-rearing, domestic work, emotional counselling, nursing the sick, maintaining family/kin networks, "being there", et cetera.

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Socialization

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lifelong learning of cultural norms (for behaviour, attitudes, values), and of how to perform a particular social role and how to interact with others. Socialization does not refer to social interaction alone!

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Stem Family

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aging parents plus one adult child and her or his family of procreation.