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Sociology- chapter11
| 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 | consists of one or both parents and thier children |
| Family of Orientation | is the nuclear family into which the person is born or adopted |
| Family of Procreation | consisting of the individual, his or her spouse, and their children |
| Extended Family | Consists of two or more generations |
| Kinship | a network of people who are related by marriage, birth, or adoption |
| marriage | used to refer not to the married couple but to the set of norms that establishes and characterizes the relationship between married individuals |
| Monogamy | the 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 | A newly married couple is expected to live with or near the husband's parents |
| Matrilocality | A newly married couple is expected to live with or near the wife's parents |
| Bilocality | the newly married couple chooses whether they live near the husband's family or the wife's |
| Neolocality | the newly married couple is free to set up a residence apart from both sets of parents |
| patrilineal descent | kinship traced through father's family |
| Matrilineal descent | the tracking of kinship through the mother's family |
| Bilateral descent | kiship is traced through both parents and property can be inherited from either side of the family |
| patriarchy | father holds most of the authority |
| matriarchy | mother holds most of the authority |
| egalitarian | the mother and the father share authority |
| incest taboo | A norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives |
| Homogamy | marriage in which individuals marry people who have social characteristics similar to their own |
| Heterogamy | marriage between individuals who have different social characteristics |
| dual-earner families | families in which bothh husband and wife have jobs |
| Sandwich generation | the generation tha tis caught between the needs of their children and those of thier parents |
| voluntary childlessness | the conscious choice to remain childless |
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