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| Marriage to someone within one's social group |
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| Marriage to someone outside one's social group |
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| The practice of having only one sexual partner or spouse at a time |
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| The practice of having more than one sexual partner or spouse at a time |
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| The practice of having multiple husbands simultaneously |
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| The practice of having multiple wives simultaneously |
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| Familial form consisting of a father, mother, and their children |
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| Kin networks that extend outside or beyond the nuclear family |
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| Living together in an intimate relationship without formal legal or religious sanctioning |
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| Strings of relationships between people related by blood and co-residence (that is, marriage) |
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| The notion that true womanhood centers on domestic responsibility and child rearing |
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| 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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| Legally recognized unions explicitly intended to offer similar state-provided legal rights and benefits as marriage |
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| Legally recognized unions that guarantee only select rights to same-sex couples |
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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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