Chapter 12 Vocab Flashcards

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Family

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Two or more people related by blood, marriage, or adoption

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Household

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People who occupy the same housing unit

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Family of orientation

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The family in which an individual grows up

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Family of procreation

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The family formed when a couple’s first child is born

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Polyandry

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A form of marriage in which a woman has more than one husband

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Patrilineal system

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A social structure in which descent is traced only on the father’s side

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Endogamy

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The practice of marrying within one’s own group

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Exogamy

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The practice of marrying outside one’s own group

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System of descent

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How kinship is traced over generations

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Egalitarian society

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Authority equally divided between people or groups, such as between husband and wife

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Gendered division of labor

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The arrangement where men and women have separate and specific responsibilities in a marriage

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Adultolescent

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Another name for boomerang children who return to the empty next after first living on their own

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Blended family

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A family whose members were once part of other families

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Cohabitation

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Unmarried couples living in a sexual relationship

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Incest

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Sexual relations between relatives

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