Marriage & Families - Chapter 1

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Marriage

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A socially approved mating relationship that people expect to be stable and enduring.

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Family

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An intimate group of two or more people who (1) live together in a committed relationship, (2) care for one another and any children, (3) share activities and close emotional ties.

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Fictive Kin

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Non relatives who are accepted as part of the family because they have strong bonds with biological family members/provides important services and care.

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Nuclear Family

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A family that is made up of married parents and their biological or adopted children.

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Incest Taboo

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Cultural norm and laws that forbid sexual intercourse between close blood relatives, such as a brother and sister, father and daughter, uncle and niece/between close relatives.

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Oldest rule in the books.

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Endogamy

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Requires people to marry or have sexual relationships within certain groups.

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Same Group/Religion - Homogamy

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Exogamy

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Requires marriage outside the group. Not marrying ones relatives or family members within a certain group.

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Not the same tribe or clan - Heterogamy

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Family of Orientation

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If a person is adopted or raised in this family, it is her family of orientaion.

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Adopted person.

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Family of Procreation

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The family a person forms by marrying and/or having or adopting children.

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Formation/adopting

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Kinship System

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A network of people who are related by blood, marriage, or adoption.

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Blood, marriage or adoption.

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Extended Family

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Consists of parents and children as well as other kin, uncles, nieces, grandparents.

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Most common family form

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Monogamy

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One person is married exclusively to another person.

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The right thing to practice.

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Polygamy

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In which a man or woman has two or more spouses.

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Mormons

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Blended/Stepfamily

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When on or more children are from a previous relationship.

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Zoe & Jeff

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Bilineal System

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A system of reckoning descent that counts both mothers & the father's side.

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Mother's & Father's side.

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Patrillineal System

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A system of reckoning descent that counts only the father's side.

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Patril - Father

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Matrillineal System

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A system of reckoning descent that counts only the mother's side.

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Matril - Mother

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Patriarchy

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A system in which men as a group dominate women.

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Patri - Men dominance

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Matriarchy

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A system in which women as a group dominate the men.

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Matri - Women dominance

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Egalitarian

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"Equal" but still reflect patriarchal origins.

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"Equal"

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Polygyny

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State or practice of having more than one wife or a female mate at a time.

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Man dominance

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Matrilocal

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Newly married couples live with the wife's family.

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Wife's Family

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Patrilocoal

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Newly married couples live with the husbands family.

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Husbands Families

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Neolocal

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Newly married couples set up their own residence.

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Own Residence

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"Common Pot" Families

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Economic resources are pooled and distributed according to need regardless of biological relatedness.

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$$$ ---> Based on need instead of Biological.

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"Two - Pot" Families

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Economic resources are divided and distributed along biological lines and non - biological lines.

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$$$ ---> Not only to biological lines.

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Bigamy

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Marrying a second person while a first marriage is still legal.

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Only applies to areas where polygamy is prohibited.

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Polyamory

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Participation in multi and simultaneous romantic on sexual relationships.

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Multi - Simultaneously

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Hypogamy

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Marrying below your social class.

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Sugar daddy/Sugar mama - Below Social Class

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Hypergamy

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Marrying someone above your social class.

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Above Social Class.

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Homogamy

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A marriage between two individuals who are some culturally important way, similar to each other.

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Culturally similar to eachother.

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Heterogamy

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Dating or marrying someone who possess different social characteristics.

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Different Social Characteristics.

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Sociology

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Scientific study of society and human behavior.

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Society & Human behavior.

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Social Structure

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People who bring order to our lives/hold social units together.

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Invisible Glue

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Social Institutions

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Provides rules; relationships to direct human behavior. Traditional; Family, Religion/Emergent; Media, Sports

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Rules

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Common - Law Marriage

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Non-ceremonial; cohabitation, evidence of consummation, intent to get married.

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Not traditional

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Ceremonial Marriage

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Couples must follow procedures specified by the states/jurisdiction.

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Jeff&Mary

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Definitions of Family

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Two or more persons who are related by birth, marriage or adoption who live together as one household.

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One household, cohabitation - same sex, Fictive Kin.

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Primary Group

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A group of people and individual perceives to the most important for his/her life and well being.

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Nary and Linda.

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Secondary Group

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Impersonal, short term relationships, few emotional ties and usually goal driven.

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Coworkers

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Socialization

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Individual aquire knowledge, language, social skills.

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Cousin Marriage

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Two people with common grandparent and ancestors.