World Cultures Family
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39 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 A social group that usually consists of a mother, father, and children living together. Rights and obligations with regard to other family members. | family |
| o When a family teaches a child how to be in their culture from infancy | Enculturation |
| A type of small agricultural commune in present-day Isreal, where children are not raised by their parents (they are raised by specialists) | Kibbutz |
| A family that is composed of a man, a woman, or just partners and their children. So it is a two generation family. | nuclear family |
| A family that includes a third generation. | extended family |
| When siblings, their husbands and wives and their children live together, also in societies where polygamy is accepted | joint family |
| Someone's brothers and sisters | siblings |
| Marriage | conjugal relationship |
| Having one spouse | monogamy |
| having many spouses | polygamy |
| When a husband has more then one wife | polygyny |
| When a wife has more than one husband | polyandry |
| When a newly married couple sets up their own house, apart form either set of in-laws | Neolocal |
| If a newly wedded couple lives at the groom's father's house | Patrilocal |
| If a newly wedded couple lived with the bride's family | Matrilocal |
| A family where the woman (or the woman's family) has the final say | Matriarchy |
| When the men of the family are clearly dominant | Patriarchy |
| When decision making is fairly equal in families | Equalitarian |
| The pattern in which people are considered related to each other | kinship system |
| Everyone in the parents generation are considered like parents | generational system |
| When there is someone else (like a godparent) in a child's life outside of the rules of blood relationships | ritual co-parenthood |
| Large unilineal kinship groups that believe they have a common ancestor in the remote past. | Clan |
| social (marriage, nonrelated, godparents, in-laws, friendship, step-siblings) relationships | affinal relationships |
| When children are a part of both parent's families | bilineal descent |
| People belonging to a family or one or the other parent | unilineal descent |
| When someone only belongs to the mother | matrilineal descent |
| When someone only belongs to a father | patrilineal descent |
| A custom or law that permits marriage only among people with the same social or religious group | Endogamy |
| The rule requiring that marriages be to a person outside of the family or social group | Exogamy |
| A basic restriction that forbids people too closely related by blood to get married | incest taboo |
| Signifies that a couple is expected to marry | Betrothal |
| A rigid status that is an extreme case of social status or class endogamy | Caste |
| When a man pays a girls family for taking her from them | bride price |
| Something that is brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage | Dowry |
| Dutiful obedience on the part of children to parents | filial loyalty |
| A custom that requires a man to marry his brother's widow and assume responsibility for his children | Levirate |
| Requires that should a man's wife die, he must marry her unmarried sister | Sororate |
| A marriage/ match making system | go-between |
| A break up in a marriage | Divorce |
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