AN101 Chapter Notes -Unilineality, Nuclear Family, Alliance Theory
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A marriage pattern in which a person may be married to only one person at the same time. Divorce and remarriage more than once is called serial monogamy . A marriage pattern in which a person may be married to more than one person at the same time. Polygyny: marriage of one man to two or more women. Polyandry: marriage of one women to two or more men. Non-conjugal family: a women and her children; the husband/father may occasionally be present or completely absent, family without second spouse with children. A family based on marriage; at minimum, a spousal pair and their children. In our society the trend has stayed away from conjugal to one that is more varied. Nuclear family: form of family that is an atomies family, two generation: one or more parents and their unmarried children. Mobile cultures (foragers, modern workers, migrants value this form) Extended family: three generations living together: parents, married children, and grandchildren.
