Question | Answer |
Family | a group of people who are related by marriage, blood, or adoption and who often live together and share economic resources |
Nuclear Family | one or both parents and their children |
Family of Orientation | the nuclear family into which the person s being born or adopted |
Family of Procreation | consisting of the individual, his or her spouse and their children |
Extended Family | two or more generations |
kinship | a network of people who are related by marriage, birth, or adoption |
marriage | the set of norms that establishes and characterizes the relationship between married individuals |
monogamy | marriage of one man to one woman |
polygamy | marriage with multiple partners |
polygyny | a man is permitted to marry more than one woman at a time |
polyandry | a woman is permitted to marry more than one man at a time |
patrilocality | residential pattern in which a newly married couple is expected to live with or near the husband's parents |
matrilocality | residential pattern in which a newly married couple are expected to live near or with the wife's parents |
bilocality | residential pattern in which a newly married couple is allowed to choose whether they will live with the husbands parents or the wife's parents |
neolocality | residential pattern in which a newly married couple is free to set up their residence apart from both sets of parents |
patrilineal descent | descent pattern in which kinship is traced through the father's family |
matrilineal descent | descent system in which kinship is traced through the mother's family |
bilateral descent | descent system in which kinship is traced through both parents |
patriarchy | a system in which men are dominant over women |
matriarchy | a family in which the mother holds most of the authority |
egalitarian | a family in which the mother and father share power |
incest taboo | norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives |
homogamy | tendency for individuals to marry people who have social characteristics similar to their own |
heterogamy | tendency for individuals to marry people who have social characteristics different from their own |
dual-earner families | families in which both husband and wife have jobs |
sandwich generation | americans caught between the needs of their children and their aging parents |
voluntary childlessness | conscious choice to remain childless |