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Conley Chapter 12
Family
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
11/23/2013

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Endogamy
Definition
Marriage to someone within one's social group
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Exogamy
Definition
Marriage to someone outside one's social group
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Monogamy
Definition
The practice of having only one sexual partner or spouse at a time
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Polygamy
Definition
The practice of having more than one sexual partner or spouse at a time
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Polyandry
Definition
The practice of having multiple husbands simultaneously
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Polygyny
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The practice of having multiple wives simultaneously
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Nuclear Family
Definition
Familial form consisting of a father, mother, and their children
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Extended Family
Definition
Kin networks that extend outside or beyond the nuclear family
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Cohabitation
Definition
Living together in an intimate relationship without formal legal or religious sanctioning
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Kinship Networks
Definition
Strings of relationships between people related by blood and co-residence (that is, marriage)
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Cult of Domesticity
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The notion that true womanhood centers on domestic responsibility and child rearing
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Second Shift
Definition
Women's responsibility for housework and child care - everything from cooking dinner to doing laundry, bathing children, reading bedtime stories, and sewing Halloween costumes
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Civil Unions
Definition
Legally recognized unions explicitly intended to offer similar state-provided legal rights and benefits as marriage
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Domestic Partnerships
Definition
Legally recognized unions that guarantee only select rights to same-sex couples
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Micegenation
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The technical term for interracial marriage, literally meaning "a mixing of kinds"; it is politically and historically charged - sociologists prefer the term exogamy or outmarriage
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