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Title: The Meaning of Marriage and the Family Key Terms


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Chapter 1
  • The Meaning of Marriage and the FamilyKey Terms

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  • Affiliated kin Unrelated individuals who feel
    and are treated as if they were relatives.
  • FamilyFamily may be defined as one or more
    adults related by blood, marriage, or affiliation
    who cooperate economically, who may share a
    common dwelling, and who may rear children.

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  • HouseholdA household consists of one or more
    peopleeveryone living in a housing unit makes up
    a household.
  • ClanA group of related families, is regarded as
    the fundamental family unit.

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  • Nuclear familyA family consisting of mother,
    father, and children.
  • Traditional familyA mostly middle-class version
    of the nuclear family in which womens primary
    roles are wife and mother and mens primary roles
    are husband and breadwinner.

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  • MarriageA legally recognized union between two
    people, generally a man and a woman, in which
    they are united sexually, cooperate economically,
    and may give birth to, adopt, or rear children.

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  • Monogamy The practice of having only one spouse
    at one time.
  • PolygamyThe practice of having more than one
    wife or husband.

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  • Modified Polygamy or Serial MonogamyA practice
    in which one person may have several spouses over
    his or her lifetime although no more than one at
    any given time.

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  • PolygynyHaving two or more wives.
  • PolyandryHaving two or more husbands.

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  • SocializationShaping individual behavior to
    conform to cultural or social norms.

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  • Family of procreationThe common term for the
    family we form through marriage and
    childbearing.
  • Family of cohabitation The family we form
    through living or cohabiting with another person,
    whether we are married or unmarried.

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  • Family of orientationThe family in which we grow
    up, the family that orients us to the world. The
    family of orientation may change over time if the
    marital status of our parents changes.
  • Extended family Consists not only of the
    cohabiting couple and their children but also of
    other relatives, especially in-laws,
    grandparents, aunts and uncles, and cousins.

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  • Kinship systemsThe social organization of the
    family. It is based on the reciprocal rights and
    obligations of the different family members, such
    as those between parents and children,
    grandparents and grandchildren, and
    mothers-in-law and sons-in-law.
  • Conjugal relationshipFamily relationships
    created through marriage. (The word conjugal is
    derived from the Latin conjungere, meaningto
    join together.)

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  • Consanguineous relationship Relationships
    created through biological (blood) tiesthat is,
    through birth.
  • Spirit marriageA marriage arranged by two
    families whose son and daughter died unmarried.

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  • Conservatives To conservatives, cultural values
    have shifted away from individual self-sacrifice
    toward self fulfillment. This shift in values is
    seen as an important factor in changes in family
    life that occurred in the last three or four
    decades of the twentieth century. Conservatives
    recommend social policies to reverse or reduce
    the extent of such changes.

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  • LiberalsLiberals tend to believe that the
    changes in family patterns are just thatchanges,
    not signs of familial decline. The liberal
    position also portrays these changing family
    patterns as products of and adaptations to wider
    social and economic changes rather than a shift
    in cultural values.

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  • Centrists Share aspects of both conservative and
    liberal positions. Like conservatives, they
    believe some familial changes have had negative
    consequences. Like liberals they identify wider
    social changes as major determinants of the
    changes in family life, but they assert greater
    emphasis than liberals do on the importance of
    cultural values.
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