Ch 12 Family Key Terms

bilateral system: a system of reckoning descent that counts both the mother's and the father's side (p.313)

blended family: a family whose members were once part of other families (p.326)

cohabitation: unmarried people living together in a sexual relationship (p.327)

egalitarian: authority more or less equally divided between people or groups-in this case, between husband and wife (p.314)

empty nest: a married couple's domestic situation after the last child has left home (p.322)

endogamy: the practice of marrying within one's own group (p.313)

exogamy: the practice of marrying outside one's group (p.313)

extended family: a nuclear family plus other relatives, such as grandparents, who live together (p.312)

family: two or more people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage, or adoption (p.312) family of orientation: the family in which a person grows up (p.312)

family of procreation: the family formed when a couple's first child is born (p.313)

homogamy: the tendency of people with similar characteristics to marry one another (p.319)

household: people who occupy the same housing unit (p.312)

incest taboo: the rule that prohibits sex or marriage among designated relatives (p.313)

machismo: an emphasis on male 'strength and dominance (p.323)

marriage: a group's approved mating arrangements, usually marked by a ritual of some sort (p.313)

matriarchy: a society in which women as a group dominate men as a group (p.314)

matritineal (system of descent): a system of reckoning descent that counts only the mother's side

(p.313)

nuclear family: a family consisting of a husband, wife, and child(ren) (p.312)

patriarchy: a society or group in which men dominate women; authority is vested in males (p.313)

patrilineal (system of descent): a system of reckoning descent that counts only the father's side (p.313)

polyandry: a form of marriage in which a woman has more than one husband (p.312)

polygyny: a form of marriage in which a man has more than one wife (p.312)

romantic love: feelings of erotic attraction accompanied by an idealization of the other (p.317)

serial fatherhood: a pattern of parenting in which a father, after divorce, reduces contact with his own children, serves as a father to the children of the woman he marries or lives with, then ignores his own children after moving in with or marrying another woman; this pattern repeats (p.334)

system of descent: how kinship is traced over the generations (p.3!3)