Family Flashcards
Marriage to someone within one’s social group
Endogamy
Marriage to someone outside one’s social group
Exogamy
Practice of having only one sexual partner or spouse at a time
Monogamy
Practice of having more than one sexual partner or spouse at a time
Polygamy
Practice of having multiple husbands simultaneously
Polyandry
Practice of having multiple wives simultaneously
Polygyny
Familial form consisting of a father, a mother, and their children
Nuclear family
Kin networks that extend outside or beyond the nuclear family
Extended family
Living together in an intimate relationship without formal legal or religious sanctioning
Cohabitation
Strings of relationships between people related by blood and co-residence
Kinship networks
Notion that true womanhood centers on domestic responsibility and child rearing
Cult of domesticity
Women’s responsibility for housework and child care
Second shift
Interracial marriage literally meaning “a mixing of kinds”
Miscegenation