Sociology Chapter 11

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Families

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Relationships in which people live together with commitment, form an economic unit and care for any young, and consider their identity to be significantly attached to the group.

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Kinship

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A social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption

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Family of Orientation

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The family into which a person is born and in which early socialization usually takes place.

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Family of procreation

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the family that a person forms by having or adopting children.

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Extended Family

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family unit composed of relatives in addition to parents and children who live in the same household.

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nuclear family

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one or two parents and their dependent children, all of whome live apart from other relatives.

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monogamy

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a marriage between two partners, usually woman and man

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polygamy

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a concurrent marriage of a person of one sex with two or more members of the opposite sex

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polygyny

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a concurrent marriage of one man with two or more women.

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polyandry

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the concurrent marriage of one woman with two or more men

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Patrilineal descent

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a system of tracing decent through the father's side of the family

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Matrilineal Descent

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tracing decent throught the mothers side of the family

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Bilateral Descent

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tracing descent through both the mothers and fathers sides of the family

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patriarchal family

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a family structure in which authority is held by the eldest male (usually father)

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Matriarchal Family

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authorty is held by oldest female (usually mother)

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egalitarian family

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both partners share power and authority equally

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patrilocal residence

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the custom of married couple living in the same household as the husbands family

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matrilocal residence

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the custom of married couple living in the same household as the wife's family

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neolocal residence

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a married couple living in their own residence apart from both the husband's and the wife's parents.

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Endogamy

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cultural norms prescribing that people marry within their social group or category

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exogamy

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cultural norms prescribing that people marry outside their social group or category

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sociology of the family

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the subdiscipline of sociology that attempts to describe and explain patterns of family life and variations in family structure

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Cohabitation

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two people live together, and think of themselves as a couple, without being legally married

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Domestic partnerships

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household partnerships in which an unmarried couple lives together in a committed, sexually intimate relationship and is granted the same rights and benefits as those accorded to married heterosexual couples.

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homogamy

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the pattern of individuals marrying those who have similar characteristics, such as race/ethnicity, religious background, age, education, or social class

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dual-earner marriages

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marriages in which both spouses are in the labor force

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second shift

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Arlie Hochschild's term for the domestic work that emploted women perform at home after they comlete theur workday on the job