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Sociology chapter 12

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Vocabulary
Meaning
Adoption   In a legal sense, a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights, responsibilities, and privileges and parenthood to a new legal parent or parents  
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Bilateral descent   A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important  
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Cohabitation   The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying  
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Domestic partnership   Two unrelated adults who have chosen to share one another's lives in a relationship of mutual caring, who reside together and who agree to be jointly responsible for their dependents, basic living expenses, and other common necessities  
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Egalitarian family   An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals  
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Endogamy   The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group  
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Exogamy   The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups  
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Extended family   A family in which relatives such as grandparents, aunts, or uncles live in the same home as parents and their children  
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Familism   Pride in the extended family, expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinflok  
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Family   A set of people related by blood, marriage or some other agreed upon relationship or adoption, who share the primary responsibility society  
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Incest Taboo   The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives  
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Kinship   The state of being related to others  
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Machismo   A sense of virility, personal worth, and pride in one's maleness  
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Matriarchy   A society in which women dominate in family decision making  
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Matrilineal descent   A kinship system that favor the relatives of the mother  
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Monogamy   A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only ot each other  
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Nuclear family   A married couple and their unmarried children living together  
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Patriarchy   A society in which men dominate family decision making  
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Patrilineal descent   A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father  
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Polyandry   A form of polygamy in which a woman can have more than one husband at the same time  
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Polygamy   A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously  
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Serial Monogamy   A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her life time but only one spouse at a time  
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Single parent families   Families in which there is only ne parent present to care children  
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