D Flashcards
Endogamy
Marriage to someone within one’s social group
Exogamy
Marriage to someone outside one’s social group (opposite of Endogamy)
Monogamy
The practice of having one sexual partner or spouse
Polygamy
The practice of having more than one sexual partner or spouse at a time
Polyandry
The practice of having multiple husbands simultaneously
Polygyny
The practice of having multiple wives simultaneously
Nuclear Family
Familial form of consisting of a father, mother, and their children
Extended Family
Kin networks that extend beyond or outside nuclear family
Kinship Networks
Strings of relationships between people related by blood and co residence (i.e. marriage)
Second Shift
Women’s responsibility for housework and child care - everything from cooking dinner to doing laundry, bathing children, reading bedtimes stories, and sewing Halloween costumes
Miscegenation
The technical term for interracial marriage literally meaning “a mixing of kinds”; it is politically and historically charged, and sociologists generally prefer the term exogamy or outmarriage
General statement:
Macro social forces reshape family which reshapes socialization and material resources which feeds back into Macro social forms