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| a social institution found in all societies that unites people in cooperative groups to care for one another, including any children. |
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| social bond: common ancestry, marriage, or adoption. |
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| composed of relatives in addition to parents and children who live together. |
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| composed of one or two parents and their children. |
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| a legal relationship, usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity, and child bearing |
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| marriage between people of the same social category |
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| marriage between people of different social categories |
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| marriage that unites two partners |
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| marriage that unites a person with two or more spouses |
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| the system by which members of a society trace kinship over generations |
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| a norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives |
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| marriage between people with the same social characteristics |
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| emotional, physical, or sexual abuse of one family member by another |
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| the sharing of a household by an unmarried couple |
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| Structural-Functional Analysis |
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1. Socialization
2. Regulation of sexual activity
3. Social placement
4. Material and emotional security |
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| Social-Conflict and Feminist Analysis |
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1. Property and inheritance
2. Patriarchy
3. Race and ethnicity |
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| Micro-Level Analysis: Social Exchange |
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| courtship and marriage as negotiation |
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1. Individualism on the rise
2. Romantic love fades
3. Women are less dependent on men
4. Many of today's marriages are stressful
5. Divorce has become socially acceptable
6. Legally, a divorce is easier to get |
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| usually due to remarriage, a combination of biological and unrelated family members |
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| one-parent families, cohabitation, gay and lesbian couples, single-hood |
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