Chapter 6 Flashcards

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Achieved Statueses

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Social positions people may attain later in life

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Affinal

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Related through marriage

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Age Sets

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Non-kin forms of social organization composed of young men born within a specified time span, which are part of a sequence of age sets that proceeds through youth, maturity, and old age

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Ascribed Statuses

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Social positions people are assigned to at birth

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Bilateral Descent

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Principle that descent group is formed based on connections of relatedness made through both mom and dad

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Blended Family

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Family merged together by another marriage that aren’t related by blood

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Bridewealth

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Family on brides stuff gives their own important things to the grooms family

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Clan

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Group of members that believe they have a common ancestor

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Conjugal Family

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Family based on marriage; at minimum, a spousal pair and their children

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Dowry

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Transfer of wealth from parents to their child

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Ego,

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The person that is getting their kinship mapped

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Endogamy

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Marriage within a social group

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Exogamy

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Marriage outside a social group

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Extended Family

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Family pattern made up of 3 generations living together

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Family of Chocie

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Created overtime by new kin ties and lovers demonstrate their genuine commitment to one another

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Family

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A woman or a man and her/his dependent children

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Friendship

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Unofficial bonds that people construct with others that tend to be personal, affective, and often a matter of choice

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Joint Family

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Family pattern made up of brothers and their wives along with their children living together

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Kinship

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Social relationships that are prototypically derived from the universal human experiences of mating, birth, and nuturance

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Lineage

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Descent group made up of blood relatives who think they can trace their descent from known ancestors

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Marriage

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Transforms the status of the participants, carries implications about sexual access, gives offspring a position in society and establishes connections between the kin of the husband and the kin of a wife

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Monogamy

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Being married to one person at a time

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Non-Conjugal Family

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Woman and her kids, father may occasionally be present or completely absent

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Nuclear Family

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Family made up of 2 generations; parents and their unmarried children

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Polygamy
Being married to more than one person and a time
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Relatedness
Socially recognized ties that connect people in a variety of ways
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Secret Societies
Non-kin forms of social organization that initiate young men or women into social adulthood and reveal "secret" knowledge to initiated members
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Segementary Opposition
An approach to dispute resolution and social organization in which groups beyond the most basic emerge only in opposition to other groups on the same hierarchical level
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Sodalities
Non-kin forms of social organization; special purpose groupings that may be organzied on the basis of age, sex, economic role, and or personal interest
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Unilineal Descent
Pattern of descent in which a descent group is formed based on connections of relatedness made though either father or mother