Sociology Chapter 12

Endogamy

Marriage to someone within one’s social group.

Exogamy

Marriage to someone outside one’s social group.

Monogamy

The practice of having only one sexual partner or spouse at a time.

Polygamy

The practice of having more than one sexual partner or spouse at a time.

Polyandry

The practice of having multiple husbands simultaneously.

Polygyny

The practice of having multiple wives simultaneously.

Nuclear Family

Familial form consisting of a father, a mother, and their children.

Extended Family

Kin networks that extend outside or beyond the nuclear family.

Cohabitation

Living together in an intimate relationship without formal legal or religious sanctioning.

Kinship Networks

String of relationships between people related by blood and co-residence (i.e., marriage).

Cult of Domesticity

The notion that true womanhood centers on domestic responsibility and child rearing.

Second Shift

Women’s responsibility for housework and child care - everything from cooking dinner to doing laundry, bathing children, reading bedtime stories, and sewing Halloween costumes.

Miscegenation

The technical term for interracial marriage, literally meaning “a mixing of kinds“; it is politically and historically charged, and sociologists generally prefer the term exogamy or outmarriage.