Ch 9 - Marriage and Family

Marriage

________ is a groups approved mating arrangements, usually marked by a ritual of some sort.

Household

________: consists of people who occupy the same housing unit.

grandparents

Extended family: ________, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Polygyny

________: men having more than one wife.

Polyandry

________: women having more than one husband.

Exogamy

________: people marry outside their group.

Matrilineal system

________: tracing descent on only the mothers side.

Nuclear family

________: husband, wife, children.

Bilineal system

________: tracing descent to both the mothers and fathers sides of the family.

marriage

Family: people who consider themselves related by blood, ________, or adoption.

Family

people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage, or adoption

Household

consists of people who occupy the same housing unit

Polygyny

men having more than one wife

Polyandry

women having more than one husband

Nuclear family

husband, wife, children

Extended family

grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins

Endogamy

specifies that its members must marry within their group

Exogamy

people marry outside their group

System of descent

the way people trace kinship over generations

Bilineal system

tracing descent to both the mothers and fathers sides of the family

Patrilineal system

tracing descent only on the fathers side

Matrilineal system

tracing descent on only the mothers side