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Test 3
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
11/20/2006

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Term
Family
Definition
A group of people who are related by blood, marriage, or adoption, live together, are an economic unit, and bear and raise children.
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Kinship
Definition
refers to a social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption.
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Family of Orientation
Definition
is the family into which a person is born and in which early socialization usually takes place.
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Family of procreaition
Definition
is the family a person forms by having or adopting children.
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Extended Family
Definition
is composed of relatives in addition to parents and children who live in the same household.
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Nuclear Family
Definition
is composed of one or two parents and their dependent children, all of whom live apart from other relatives.
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Postmodern perspective
Definition
Families are diverse and fragmented.
Boundaries between workplace and home are blurred.
Family problems are related to cyberspace and consumerism in an age characterized by high-tech “haves’ and “have-nots.”
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Polyandry
Definition
one woman 2 men
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Plygyny
Definition
one man 2 women
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Blended family
Definition
Families that consist of a husband, wife, and children from previous marriages and (if any) children from the new is called a blended family.
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