Chapter 12 Flashcards
A form of marriage in which men have more than one wife.
Polygyny
A form of marriage in which women have more than one husband.
Polyandry
To or more people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage or adoption.
Family
People who occupy the same housing unit.
Household
A family consisting of a husband, wife and children.
Nuclear family
A family in which relatives such as the older generations or unmarried aunts and uncles live with the parents and their children.
Extended family
The family in which a person grows up.
Family of orientation.
The family formed when a couple’s first child is born.
Family of procreation.
A group’s approved mating arrangements, usually marked by a ritual of some sort.
Marriage
The practice of marrying within one’s own group
Endogamy
The practice of marrying outside of one’s group
Exogamy
The rule that prohibits sex and marriage among designated relatives
Incest taboo
How kinship is traced over the generations
System of descent
A system of reckoning descent that counts both the mother’s and the father’s side
Bilingual system
A system of reckoning descent that counts only the father’s side
Patrilineal system
A system of reckoning descent that counts only the mother’s side
Matrilineal system
Men as a group dominating women as a group’ authority is vested in males
Patriarchy
A society in which women as a group dominate men as a group; authority is vested in females.
Matriarchy
Authority more or less equally divided between people or groups (in heterosexual marriage for example between husband and wife)
Egalitarian
Feelings of erotic attraction accompanied by an idealization of the other
Romantic love
The tendency of people with similar characteristics to marry one another
Homogamy
Unmarried couples living together in a sexual relationship
Cohabitation
Sexual relations between specified relatives such as brothers and sisters or parents and children
Incest
