Family Flashcards
Two or more people related by blood, marriage or adoption.
Family
Basic Residential unit where economic, production, consumption, inheritance, child rearing and shelter are organized and carried out
Household
Socially or ritually recognized union or legal contract between spouses that established rights and obligation between them, between them and their children, and between them and their in-laws.v
Marriage
Compulsory marriage in their own village, community, ethnic, social, or religious group,
Endogamy
Marriage custom where an individual is required by social norms to marry outside their own group, community, or social classes
Exogamy
Both married partners have 1 spouse
Monogamy
One individual has multiple spouses
Polygamy
One man is married to more than one woman simultaneously
Polygyny
One woman is married to more than one man simultaneously
Polyandry
Adoption of the prospective son-in-law before the wedding takes place.
Adoptive
A union between two women, an older and a younger one. Practiced by the Nuer tribe in Africa.
Fictive
Union of a bridegroom and a bride only with the consent and agreement that the bridegroom’s sister will marry the bride’s brother.
Sister Exchange
Capturing of the bride by the Bridegroom.
Bride capture
A widow should/must marry her dead husband’s brother, or, all the rest of the husband’s brothers at the same time.
Levirate
A widower should/must marry his dead wife’s sister, or, all the rest of the wife’s sisters at the same time.
Sororate
Marital structure in which 3 or more adults form sexual, affective, romantic, or other intimate partnerships, either short-term or long-term.
Group
Married couple lives in the residence of his husband’s father
Patrilocal
Man is expected to take residence in his wife’s mother area.
Matrilocal
Newlywed couple stay with the husband’s relatives and the kin alternately.
Bilocal
Requires both spouses to leave their households and create their own times even in a different locality
Neolocal
Parents +offspring; may include a stepparent, step siblings and adopted children
Nuclear family
1 parent + 1 or more children; consequence of divorce or separation, births to unmarried mothers, death of spouse, desertion
Single-parent Families
Family units where one or both members have children from their previous relationship
Stepfamilies/Reconstituted Families
Network of relatives within which an individual possesses certain mutual rights and obligations.
Kinship
kinship through bloodline
Consanguinity
kinship through marriage
Affinity
child is automatically assigned to either his mother or father’s group
Unilineal descent
children are automatically made members of the father’s group
Patrilineal descent
children are automatically made members of the mother’s group
Matrilineal descent
children can be made members of all ancestor’s groups
Bilateral descent
ritual parenthood due to ceremonies
Compadrazgo
spiritual parenthood due to ceremonies
Padrinazgo
In the kinship diagram, what gender does a triangle symbolize
male
In the kinship diagram, what gender does a square symbolize
ego
In the kinship diagram, what gender does a circle symbolize
female
