Family Structures
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22 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Nuclear Family | - when a husband and a wife live with their children |
| blended family | - divorced partners with children get married |
| single parent | - 1 parents with at least 1 child |
| kinship | blood relationship |
| polygny | man having more then 1 wife |
| Polygamy | - practice of several spouses |
| monogamy | having 1 marital partner |
| polyandry | a wife having several husbands |
| common law/cohabiting | - intimate relationship in which a male and female live together as partners without legally marrying |
| endogamy | - marrying within own tribe |
| exogamy | - marrying outside of tribe |
| neolocal | - when family is between residance of mother and father |
| patrilocal | when a family or kinship group is located near husband's family |
| matrilocal- | when a family or kinship group is located near wife's family |
| bilateral descent system | when relatives on mothers and fathers side are equally important for emotional ties or transfer of property and wealth |
| matrilineal | mothers side more important for emotional ties or transfer of property and wealth |
| patrilineal | fathers side more important for emotional ties or transfer of property and wealth |
| egalitarian marriage | - equality between both spouses |
| caste | each person has equal rank, occcupation etc. |
| matriarchal | a women head of the family |
| patriarchal | man head of the family |
| extended family | - family consists of all members ie, cousins, grandparents. Usually used when a married couple and children share household with parents |
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