The Family Flashcards
union between 2 indivs
Monogamy
indiv has multiple spouses over their lifetime but only one at a time
Serial monogamy
union between 3/more indivs
Polygamy
man + multiple women
Polygyny
woman + multiple men
Polyandry
males + females
Group marriage
2/more persons related by blood, adoption, marriage, or serious long-term commitment to each other , and who live together.
Family
form an economic unit, adult members care for the dependent children
Family
united by ties of partnership and parenthood
pair of adults - typically but not always married
socially recognized children
Nuclear/Elementary family
expansion of nuclear family
Extended family
locus where biological (consanguineal) and marital (affinal) forms of kinship combine.
Residence
give the types of residence
Neolocal
Bilocal
Patrilocal or Virilocal
Matrilocal or Uxorilocal
Avunculocal
newlyweds establish a home independent of the loc of either set of parents.
Neolocal
couple alternates between wife’s group and husband’s group
Bilocal
live with or near the husband’s kin
Patrilocal or Virilocal