Chapter 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

the practice of having only one sexual partner or spouse at a time

Question 4

polygamy

Answer 4

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

Question 5

polyandry

Answer 5

the practice of having multiple husbands simultaneously

Question 6

polygyny

Answer 6

the practice of having multiple wives simultaneously

Question 7

nuclear family

Answer 7

familial form consisting of a father, a mother, and their children

Question 8

extended family

Answer 8

kin networks that extend outside or beyond the nuclear family

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 (that is, marriage)

Question 11

cult of domesticity

Answer 11

the notion that true womanhood centers on domestic responsibility and child rearing

Question 12

second shift

Answer 12

women’s responsibility for housework and child care—everything from cooking dinner to doing laundry, bathing children, reading bedtime stories, and sewing Halloween costumes

Question 13

miscegenation

Answer 13

the technical term for interracial marriage, literally meaning “a mixing of kinds”; because the term is politically and historically charged, sociologists generally prefer exogamy or outmarriage