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| marrying a second person while a first marriage is still legal. |
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| requires people to marry or have sexual relations within a certain group. |
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| requires marriage outside the group, such as not marrying one's relatives or members of the same clan or tribe. |
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| a family that a person is adopted or raised by |
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| the family a person forms by marrying and/or having or adopting children. |
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| providing the emotional support and nurturing qualities that sustain the family unit and support the husband orr father |
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| intended and recognized; they are clearly evident |
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| unintended and unrecognized; they are not immediately obvious |
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| examines the ways in which groups disagree, struggle for power, and compete for scarce resources such as wealth and prestige |
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| the premise that people seek through their interactions with others to maximize their costs |
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| family relationships took precedence over individual well-being |
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| families that were built on mutual affection, sexual attraction, compatibility, and personal happiness between husbands and wives |
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| laws against the marriage or sexual relations between a man and a woman of different races |
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| a courtship process in which prospective spouses compare the assets and liabilities of eligible partners and choose the best available mate |
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| dating or marrying someone with similar social characteristics such as ethnicity, race, religion, age, and social class (sometimes call endogamy) |
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| dating or marrying someone from a social, racial, ethnic, religious, or age group different from ones own (sometimes called exogamy) |
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| dating or marrying someone whos in a lower social class than ones own |
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| dating or marrying someone in a higher social class to improve ones social standing |
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| a theoretical perspective that proposes that an intimate relationship is satisfying an stable if both people see it as equitable and mutually beneficial |
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| the money, goods, or property a woman brings to a marriage |
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| the required payment of money or property by the grooms family to the brides family |
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