Explain the Sociology of Marriage Flashcards

Authority more or less equally divided between people or groups (in marriage, for example, between husband and wife)

The practice of marrying within one’s group

The practice of marrying outside one’s group

The family in which a person grows up

The family formed when a couple’s first child is born

The tendency of people with similar characteristics to marry one another

A society in which women as a group dominate men as a group

A group in which men as a group dominate women as a group; authority is vested in males

A family consisting of a husband, wife, and children

A form of marriage in which women have more than one husband

A form of marriage in which men have more than one wife

A pattern of parenting in which a father, after divorce, reduces contact with his own children, serves as a father to the children of the woman he marries or lives with, then ignores these children too, after moving in with or marrying then another woman

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

Unmarried couples living together in a sexual relationship

Beneficial consequences to people’s actions that keep the society balanced or keep people doing what is expected by all social institutions in our society