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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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families
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a social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption.
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kinship
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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 orientation
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the family that a person forms by having or adopting children.
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family of procreation
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a fmaily unit composed of relatives in addtion to parents and children who live in the same household.
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extended family
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a family composed of one or two parents and their dependent children, all of who live apart from other relatives.
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nuclear family
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a marriage between two partners, usually a woman and a man.
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monogamy
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the concurrent marriage of a person of one sex with two or more members of the opposite sex
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polygamy
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the conurrent marriage of one man with two or more women.
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polygyny
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the concurrent marriage of one woman with two or more men.
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polyandry
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a system of tracing descent through the fathers side of the family
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patrilineal descent
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a system of tracing descent through the mothers side of the family
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matrilineal descent
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a system of tracing descent through both the mothers and fathers sides of the family.
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bilateral descent
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a family structure in which authority is held by the eldest maale (usually the father.)
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patriarchal family
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a family structure in which authority is held by the eldest female (usually the mother)
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matriarchal family
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a family structure in which both partners share power and authority equally
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egalitarian family
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the custom of a married coup living in the same household (or community as the husbands family.
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patrilocal residence
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the custom of married couple living in the same household (or community) as the wifes parents.
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matrilocal residence
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the custom of a married couple living in their own residence apart from both the husbands and the wife's parents.
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neolocal residence
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cultural norms prescribing that peopl emarry within their social group or category
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endogamy
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the practice of marrying outside ones own social group or category.
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exogamy
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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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sociology of family
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the sharing of a household by one man and one woman who are not related to each other by kinship or marriage.
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cohabitation
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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 accroded to married hetero sexual couples.
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domestic partnerships
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the pattern of individuals marrying those who have similar characteristics, such as race/ethnicity, religous background, age, education, or social class.
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homogamy
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marriages in which both spouses are in the labor force.
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dual earner marriages
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the domestic work that employed women perform at home after they complete their workday on the job.
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second shift
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