SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Patrilocal Residence, Exogamy, Endogamy
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Kinship: a social institution that unites people in cooperative groups to care for one another, including any children. Marriage: a social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption, a legal relationship, usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity, and childbearing. Nuclear family: a family consisting of parents and children as well as other kin, recognized in pre-industrial societies, a family composed of one or two parents and their children. Exogamy: marriage between people of the same category, marriage from different categories, uniting of two partners. Polyandry o o o three or more people two or more women two or more men. Neolocality: married couple live with or near the husband"s family, married couple live with or near the wife"s family, married couple live apart from both sets of parents. Members of a society trace kinship over generations. Matrilineal o o tracing kinship through women. Bilateral tracing kinship through both men and women o.
