CH 12

Question 1

endogamy

Answer 1

marriage to someone within one’s social group

Question 2

exogamy

Answer 2

marriage to someone outside one’s social group

Question 3

monogamy

Answer 3

practice of having only one sexual partner and spouse at a time

Question 4

polygamy

Answer 4

practice of having more than one sexual partner or spouse at a time

Question 5

polyandry

Answer 5

practice of having multiple husbands at the same time

Question 6

polygyny

Answer 6

practice of having multiple wives at the same time

Question 7

nuclear family

Answer 7

traditional family, consists of father, mother, and child(ren)

Question 8

extended family

Answer 8

kin networks that extend outside or beyond nuclear family; blended stepfamilies, adopted families, single parent families

Question 9

cohabitation

Answer 9

living together in an intimate relationship without formal legal or religious sanctioning

Question 10

kinship networks

Answer 10

strings of relationships between people related by blood and co-residence (marriage)

Question 11

cult of domesticity

Answer 11

notion that true womanhood centers on domestic responsibility and child rearing

Question 12

second shift

Answer 12

women’s responsibility for housework and childcare

Question 13

miscegenation

Answer 13

term for interracial marriage, mixing of kinds