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Chapter 12 Vocab Flashcards

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A group of people who are related by marriage, blood, or adoption and who often live together and share economic resources

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Family

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Consists of one or both parents and their children

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Nuclear Family

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The family into which the person is born or adopted

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Family of Orientation

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Consisting of the individual, his or her spouse, and their children

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Family of Procreation

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Consists of two or more generations (grandparents, parents, children, uncles, aunts, and cousins)

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Extended Family

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

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Kinship

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The set of norms that establishes and characterizes the relationship between married individuals

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Marriage

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The marriage of one man to one woman

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Monogamy

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Marriage with multiple partners

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Polygamy

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A man is permitted to marry more than one woman at a time

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Polygyny

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A woman is permitted to marry more than one man at a time

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Polyandry

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Newly married couple is expect to live with or near the husbands parents

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Patrilocality

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Newly married couple is expect to live with or near the wife’s parents

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Matrilocality

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Traces kinship through the fathers family

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Patrilineal Descent

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Traces kinship through the mothers family

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Matrilineal Descent

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Kinship is traced through both parent’s families

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Bilateral Decent

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The father holds most of the authority

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Patriarchy

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The mother holds most of the authority

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Matriarchy

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The mother and the father share authority

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Egalitarian

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A norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives

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Incest Taboo

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Marrying individuals who have social characteristics similar to their own (age, socioeconomic status, religion, and race)

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Homogamy

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Marrying between individuals who have different social characteristics

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Heterogamy

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Families where both the husband and wife have jobs

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Dual-Earner Families

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Couples that have to take care of both their young children and their aging parents at the same time

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Sandwich Generation

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Consciously choosing to never have children

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Voluntary Childlessness

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The newly married couple can choose whether they will live near the husbands or the wife’s parents

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Bilocality

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Newly married couple is free to set up residence apart from both sets of parents

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Neolocality

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