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Sociology chapter 12
| 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 |
| Bilateral descent | A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important |
| Cohabitation | The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying |
| 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 |
| Egalitarian family | An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals |
| Endogamy | The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group |
| Exogamy | The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups |
| Extended family | A family in which relatives such as grandparents, aunts, or uncles live in the same home as parents and their children |
| Familism | Pride in the extended family, expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinflok |
| Family | A set of people related by blood, marriage or some other agreed upon relationship or adoption, who share the primary responsibility society |
| Incest Taboo | The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives |
| Kinship | The state of being related to others |
| Machismo | A sense of virility, personal worth, and pride in one's maleness |
| Matriarchy | A society in which women dominate in family decision making |
| Matrilineal descent | A kinship system that favor the relatives of the mother |
| Monogamy | A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only ot each other |
| Nuclear family | A married couple and their unmarried children living together |
| Patriarchy | A society in which men dominate family decision making |
| Patrilineal descent | A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father |
| Polyandry | A form of polygamy in which a woman can have more than one husband at the same time |
| Polygamy | A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously |
| 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 |
| Single parent families | Families in which there is only ne parent present to care children |
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