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28 Cards in this Set
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family
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a group of people related by marriage blood or adoption
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marriage
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a legal union based on mutal rights and obligations
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nuclear family
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family structure composed of one or both parents and children
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extended family
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two or more adult generations of the same family whose members share economic resources and a common household
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patrillineal
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decent and inheritance is passed through the male line
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matrillneal
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descent and inheritance is passed through th female line
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bilateral
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descent and inheritance are passed equally through both parents
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patriarchy
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the pattern in which the oldest man living in the household has authority over the rest of the family members
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matriarchy
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the pattern in which the oldest woman living in the household has authority over all other family members
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equalitarian
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family structure in which authority is evenly shared between the husband and wife
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patrilocal
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refers to pattern in which marred couples live with or near husbands parents
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matrilocal
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refers to pattern in which marrid couples live with or near wives parents
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monogamy
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a marriage consiisting of one man and one woman
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polygamy
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the marriage of a male or female to more than one person at a time
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polygyny
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the marriage of one man to two or more women at the same time
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polyandry
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the marriage of one woman to two or more men at the same time
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exogamy
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the practice of marrying outside one's group
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incest taboo
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a norm forbidding marriage between close relatives
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endogamy
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marriable within ones own group as required by social norms
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homogamy
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the tendency to marry someone similar to oneself
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heterogamy
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marriage between people with differing social characteristics
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socioemotional maintenance
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provision of acceptance and support
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marriage rate
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the number of marriabge per year for every one thousand members of a population
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divorce rate
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the number of divorces per year for every one thousand members of the population
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blended family
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a family formed when at one of the partneers in a marriafe has been married beofre and has a child or chidren from a previous marriage
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adolesent
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youths from ages of twelve to seventeen
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dual employed marriages
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marriages in which both spuses work outside the home
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cohabitation
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a marrigelike living arragement without legal obligations and responsibilities of formal marriage
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