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Chapter 12
Sections 1 and 2
| 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 |
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