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Consanguines
Blood relative
Kin
Ones family and relations
Affines
Marriage relatives (mother in law etc.)
Fictive kin
Adoptive, family friend
Family of orientation
Family in which one grows up
Family of procreation
Formed when one marries and has children
Exogamy
Practice of seeking a mate outside own group
Endogamy
Marrying in ones own group
Marriage
Biological, cultural continuity, cultural recognition, legal recognition, religious recognition
Dowry
Martial exchange in which the wife’s group provides substantial gifts to the husbands family
Progeny price
Price the male family has to pay before he can marry the daughter
Monogamy
Marriage of one man and one woman or same sex
Serial monogamy
Serious of marriages separated by divorce or widowed then remarried
Polygamy
Woman has more than one husband
Polygyny
Man has more than one wife
Sororal polygyny
A man will marry two or more sisters
Polyandry
having more than one husband or male mate at one time
Fraternal polyandry
Several brothers share one wife
Non fraternal polyandry
One woman will marry several unrelated men
Morphological sex
What you see when you look at a biological male or female
Gonadal sex
External or internal genitals
Chromosomal sex
(X,Y) 23rd pair=male (X,Y) 23rd pair=female
Gender
Cultural construction
Gender stratification
Describes an unequal distribution of rewards (socially valued resources, power, prestige, and personal freedom) between men and women, reflecting their different positions in a social hierarchy
Sexual orientation
An attraction to both same sex and other sex
Herms
Equal combination of male and female genitals
Merms
More male genitals with aspect of female genitals
Ferms
Normal female genitals and some aspects of male genitals
Berdache
Prostitute
Male two spirits
Thought to be blessed by the great spirit
Exogamy and endogamy avoid:
1st cousin
2nd cousin
3rd cousin
Incest
Progressive definition of marriage
A.) heterosexual
B.) same sex
C.) common law
Gender roles
The tasks and activities that a culture assigns to each sex
Gender stereotypes
Oversimplified but strongly held ideas about the characteristics of males and females
Sexual dimorphism
Refers to the differences in male and female biology besides the contrast in breasts and genitals. Long term genetic and biological outcome
Feminization of poverty
More single woman are poor than men and more poor if they have children