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Family
A social institution foun in all societies that unites people in cooperative groups to care for one another, including any children.
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Kinship
A social bond on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption.
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Marriage
A legal relationship, Usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity, and childbearing.
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Extended family
A family consisting of parents and children and other kin ; Also known as consanguine family.
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Nuclear Family
A family composed of one or two parents wnd their children; also known as conjugal family.
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Endogamy
Marriage between two people of the same social category.
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Exogamy
marriage between two people of different social categories.
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Monogamy
marriage that unites two partners.
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Polygamy
marriage that units a person and two or more spouses.
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Polygany
Marriage that unites a man and two or more women.
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Polyandry
marriage that unites one woman and two or more men.
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Patrilocality
A residential pattern in which a married couple lives with or near the husbands family.
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Matrilocality
A residention patter in which a married couple lives with or near th wifes family.
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Descent
The system by which members of a society trace kinship over generations.
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Patrilineal descent
A system tracing kinship through men.
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Matrilineal descent
A system tracing kinship through women.
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Bilateral descent
A system tracing kinship through both men and women
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incest taboo
A norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives.
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Homogamy
Marriage between people with the same social characteristics.
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Infidelity
Sexual activity outside one's marriage
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Family violence
Emotional, Physical, or sexual abuseof one family member by another
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Cohabitation
The sharing of a household by an unmarried couple.
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