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Chapter 12 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adoption | In a legal sense, the transfer of the legal rights, responsibilities, and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents |
| Arranged marriage | A marriage in which others choose a person's marital partner |
| 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 and a male/ female couple without marrying |
| Egalitarian family | An authority pattern in which spouses are regarded as equals |
| Endogamy | The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group |
| Exogamy | The requirement that people select a mate 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 kinfolk outside the immediate family |
| Family | A set of people related by blood, marriage or some other agreed-on relationship, or adoption, who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society |
| Flexibility stigma | The devaluation of workers who seek or who are presumed to need flexible work arrangements |
| Homogamy | The conscious or unconscious tendency to select a mate with personal characteristics similar to one's own |
| Hybrid marriage | A marriage in which the son or daughter may identify the prospective spouse, but the marriage is contingent on the parents approving that choice |
| 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 in which only the mother's relatives are significant |
| Monogamy | A form of marriage in which an individual has only one partner |
| Nuclear family | A married couple and their unmarried children living together |
| Patriarchy | society in which men dominate in family decision making |
| Patrilineal descent | A kinship system in which only the father's relatives are significan |
| Polyandry | A form of polygamy in which a woman may have more than one husband at the same time |
| . Polygamy | A form of marriage in which an individual may have several husbands or wives simultaneously |
| . Polygyny | A form of polygamy in which a man may have more than one wife at the same time |
| Serial monogamy | A form of marriage in which a person may have several spouses in his or her lifetime, but only one spouse at a time |
| Single-parent family | A family in which only one parent is present to care for the children |
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