Chapter 13 Flashcards
Kinship
A social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption.
Extended Family
A family composed of parents and family and children as well as other kin also known as a consanguine family.
Nuclear Family
A family composed of one or two parents and children also known as a conjugal family.
Endogamy
To marry within your own race or your own social category.
Monogamy
Marriage that unites two partners
Polygamy
Marriage that unites a person with two or more spouses
Profane
Included as an ordinary part of everyday life. Concerned in everyday LIFE rather than religion.
Sacred
Set apart as extraordinary inspiring awe and reverence.
Secularization
The historical decline in the importance of the supernatural and the sacred.
Polyandry/Polygyny
marriage that includes more than two partners
Having more than a wife at one time: poly-gy-ny
Having more than one husband at one time:
Poly-an-dry
Family
A social institution found in all societies that unites people in cooperative groups to care to one another, including any children.
