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Bradley University Sociology 100
Exam 4
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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
12/04/2011

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Kinship
Definition
a social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption
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Marriage
Definition
a legal relationship usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity, and child bearing
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Family
Definition
a social institution found in all societies that unites people in cooperative groups to care for one another
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Extended Family
Definition
a family consisting of parents and children as well as other kin
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Nuclear Family
Definition
a family composed of one or two parents as well as their children
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Endogamy
Definition
marriage between people of the same social category
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Exogamy
Definition
marriage between people of different social categories
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Three Residential Patterns of Marriage
Definition
patrilocality, matrilocality, and neolocality
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Patrilocality
Definition
a residential pattern in which a married couple lives with or near the husband's family
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Matrilocality
Definition
a residential pattern in which a married couple lives with or near the wife's family
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Neolocality
Definition
a residential pattern in which a married couple lives apart from both sets of parents
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Patrilineal Descent
Definition
a system tracing kinship through men
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Matrilineal Descent
Definition
a system tracing kinship through women
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Bilateral Descent
Definition
a system tracing kinship through both men and women
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Four Stages of Family Life
Definition
Courtship, Setting in, Child Rearing, and The Family in Later Life
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Courtship
Definition
getting married, start a life together
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Setting in
Definition
living together as a married couple, being faithful
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Child rearing
Definition
having children and taking care of them
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The Family in Later Life
Definition
Kids move out and start their own families
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Cohabitation
Definition
the sharing of a household by an unmarried couple
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Religion
Definition
a social institution involving beliefs and practices based on recognizing the sacred
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Church
Definition
a type of religious organization that is well integrated into the larger society
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Sect
Definition
a type of religious organization that stands apart from the larger society
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Religiosity
Definition
the importance of religion in a person's life
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Secularization
Definition
the historical decline in the importance of the supernatural and the sacred
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Fundamentalism
Definition
a conservative religious doctrine that opposes intellectualism and worldly accommodation in favor of restoring traditional, otherworldly religion
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Education
Definition
the social institution through which society provides its members with important knowledge, including basic facts, job skills, and cultural norms and values
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Schooling
Definition
formal instruction under the direction of specially trained teachers
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