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Psy 455 Chapter 4
Marriage and Mate Selection
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Polygyny | many females, men marry multiple women |
| polyandry | many males, women pair with multiple men. |
| monogamy | refers to a system in which two individuals pair bond |
| monogyny | one female |
| monandry | one male |
| polygynandry | group marriage or a system in which husbasnds and wives share the same spouses. |
| cenogamy | many females and males |
| ethnographic atlas | most comprehensive sources of cross-cultural information on mating systems. |
| serial pair bonding or serial monogamy | men and women marry successive individual partners over their life spans (instead of marrying one partner for the duration of their life spans or many partners at a single time) |
| marriage | long-term mating arrangement that is socially sanctioned and that typically involves economic, social, and reproductive cooperation between the partners. |
| homogamy or assortment | tendency for men and women to marry spouses who resemble them on a number of dimensions. |
| exogamy | tendency for people to marry partners outside of their own familial or kinship group. |
| incest taboo | prohibits sexual intercourse between closely related individuals |
| collectivist cultures | typically limit the amount of freedom a man or woman has in choosing a marriage pattern. |
| arranged marriage | family members or matchmakers choose a mate for an individual. |
| individualist cultures | typically allow an individual much greater freedom in the selection of a spouse. |
| free choice or love-based marriage | feelings of personal compatibility and mutual attraction between partners rather than meeting family or society needs. |
| traditional marriage | spouses allocate roles and responsibilites on the basis of sex. |
| egalitarian, peer or equal-status marriage | characterized by shared roles and responsibilities in all aspects of married life. |
| dual-earner marriage | both husband and wife work and make economic contributions to the family |
| defense of marriage act (doma) | passed by congress and signed into law by Pres. Bill Clinton |
| civil union | no state is required to recognize same-sex marriages, even if those marriages were legally performed and licensed in another state. |
| domestic parntership | official unions that provide specific legal rights to partners in same-sex relationships. |
| cohabitation | resembles a martial relationship, civil union, or domestic partnership in that it is essentially a committed pair bond or monogamous union between two individuals who live together and who coordinate economic, social and sexual activities. |
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