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Sociology
Sociology Chapter 11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bilateral | descent and inheritance are passed equally through both parents |
| endogamy | marriage within one's own group as required by social norms |
| equalitarian | family structure in which authority is evenly shared between the husband and wife |
| exogamy | the practice of marrying outside one's group |
| extended family | two or more adult generations of the same family whose members share economics and common household |
| family | a group of people related by marriage, blood, or adoption |
| heterogamy | marriage between people with differing social characteristics |
| homogamy | the tendency to marry someone similar to oneself |
| incest taboo | a norm forbidding marriage between close relatives |
| marriage | a legal union based on mutual rights and obligations |
| matriarchy | the pattern in which the oldest female living in the househol has authority over all other family members |
| matrilineal | descent and inheritance is passed through the female line |
| matrilocal | refers to the pattern in which married couples live with or near the wive's parents |
| monogamy | a marriage consisting of one man and one woman |
| neolocal | refers to the pattern in which newly married couples set up their own households - no preference of which side of marriage |
| nuclear family | family structure composed of one or both parents and children |
| patriarchy | the pattern in which the oldest man living in the household has authority over the rest of the family members |
| patrilineal | descent and inheritance is passed through the male line |
| patrilocal | refers to the pattern in which married couples live with or near the husband and wife |
| polyandry | the marriage of one woman to two or more men at the same time |
| polygamy | the marriage of a male or female to more than one person at a time |
| polygyny | the marriage of one man to two or more women at the same time |
| divorce rate | the number of divorces per year for every one thousand members of a population |
| marriage rate | the number marriages per year for every one thousand members of the population |
| socioemotional maintenance | provision of acceptance and support |
| adolescents | youths from ages of 12 to 17 |
| blended family | a family formed when at least one of the partners in a marriage has been married before and has a child or children from a previous marriage |
| boomerang kids | adult children who return to the home of origin or continue to live with parents |
| cohabitation | a marriage like living arrangement without the legal obligations and responsibilities of formal marriage |
| dual-employed marriages | marriages in which both spouses work outside the home |
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