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Chapter 12 Flashcards

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Family

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An intimate group consisting of two or more people who live together in a committed relationship, care for one another and any children and share close emotional ties and functions

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Incest Taboo

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Cultural norms and laws that forbid sexual intercourse between close blood relatives

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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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Endogamy

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Cultural practice of marrying within ones group

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Exogamy

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Cultural practice of marrying outside ones group

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Nuclear Family

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A family form composed of married parents and their biological or adopted children

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Extended family

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A family form composed of parents and children as well as other kin

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Patrilocal residence pattern

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Newly married couples live with the husbands family

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Matrilocal residence family

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Newly married couples live with the wifes family

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Neolocal residence pattern

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A newly married couple sets up its own residence

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Boomerang generation

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Young adults who move back into their parents home after living independently for a while or who never leave it in the first place

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Matriarchal family system

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the oldest women control cultural political and exonomic resources and consequently have power over the males

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Patriarchal family system

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The oldest men control cultural, political and economic resources and consequently have power over females

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Egalitarian family system

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Both partners share power and authority fairly equally

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Marriage market (meat Market)

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A courtship process in which prospective spouses compare the assets and liabilities of eligible partners and choose the best available mate

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Homogamy

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Marrying someone with similar characteristics such as race, ethnicity, age, education, social class or religion

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monogamy

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One person is married exclusively to another person

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Serial monogamy

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individuals marry several people but one at a time

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Polygamy

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A marriage form in which the man or woman has two or more spouses

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Polygyny

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One man has more than one wife at a time

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Divorce

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The legal dissolution of a marriage

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No-fault divorce

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state laws that do not require either partners to establish guilt or wrongdoing on the part of the other to get a divorce

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Stepfamily

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A household in which two adults who are biological or adoptive parents with a child from a prior relationship, marry or cohabit

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Cohabitation

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An arrangement in which two unrelated people arent married but live together and have sexual relationship

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Dual-earner couples

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Both partners are employed outside the home

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Fictive kin

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Nonrelatives who are accepted as part of a family

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intimate partner violence (IPV)

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Abuse that occurs between people in a close relationship

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Gerontologist

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Scientists who study the biological, psychological and social aspects of aging

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sandwich generation

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People in a middle generation who care for their own children and their aging parents

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Old-age dependency ratio

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(Elderly support ratio) The number of working-age adults ages 18-64 every person age 65 and older whos not in the labor force

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Activity theory

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Proposes that many older people remain engaged in numerous roles and activities including work

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Exchange theory

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Posits that people seek through their social interactions with others to maximize their rewards and minimize their cost

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Ageism

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Discrimination against older people

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Continuity theory

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Posits that older adults can substitute satisfying new roles for those they’ve lost

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