Sociology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Patrilineality, Bilateral Descent, Incest Taboo
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Family: social institution found in all societies that unites people in co-operative groups to care for one another. Kinship: social bond based on common ancestry, marriage or adoption. Marriage: legal relationship, involve economic cooperation, sexual activity, childbearing. Household: group of people who have a common residence. Extended family: a family consisting of parents and children as well as other kin. Recognized in pre industrial societies, also known as a consanguine family. Nuclear family: family composed of one or two parents and their children. Also known as conjugal family(based on marriage). Endogamy: marriage between people of the same social category. Exogamy: marriage between people of different social categories. Polygamy: marriage that unites a person with two or more spouses. Polygyny: marriage that unites one man with more than one woman. Polyandry: marriage that unites one woman with more than one man. Patrilocality: residential pattern which a married couple lives with/near husbands family.
