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| Culturally defined rules for behavior, regarding may engage in sexual relations, with whom, and under what circumstances |
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| cultural norms and laws that forbid sexual intercourse between close blood relatives, such as brother and sister,father and daughter, uncle and niece, or grandparent and grandchild. |
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| through this children acquire language, absorb the accumulated knowledge, attitudes,beliefs, and values of their culture; and learn the social and interpersonal skills they need if they are to function effectively in society. |
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| characterized by close, long-lasting, intimate, and face-to-face interactions. |
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| those characterized by impersonal and short-term relationships in which people work together on common tasks or activities. |
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| a category of people who have a similar standing in society based on their wealth, education, power, prestige, and other valued resources. |
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| a socially approved mating relationship that people expect to be stable and enduring, is also universal. |
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| marrying a second person while a first marriage is still legal. |
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| made up of married parents and their biological or adopted children. |
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| made up of married parents and their biological or adopted children. |
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| most common; consists of parents and children as well as other kin, such as uncles and aunts, nieces, and nephews, cousins, and grandparents. |
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| newly couples live with husband's family |
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| they live with wives family |
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| couple set up their own residence. |
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| the oldest females control cultural, political, and economic resources and, consequently, have power over males. |
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| oldest males have control over culture, politics, and economic resources and consequently over females. |
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| both partners share power and authority about equally. |
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| one person is married exclusively to another person. |
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| they marry several people, but one at a time- they marry, divorce,remarry, and redivorce. |
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| in which a man or woman have two or more spouses, is subdivided into polygyny-one man married to two or more women- and polyandry-one woman with two or more husbands. |
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| the family a person forms by marrying and/or having or adopting children. |
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| the family a person forms by marrying and/or having or adopting children. |
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| a network of people who are related by blood, marriage, or adoption. |
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| focusing on individual's social interactions in specific settings. |
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| focusing on large-scale patterns that characterize society as a whole. |
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| refers to the measures that governments take to improve the well-being of families. |
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| structural functional theory |
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| examines the relationship between the family and larger society. |
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| providing food, and shelter for the family and , at least theoretically being hardworking, tough, and competitive. |
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| expressive roles "homemaker" |
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| providing the emotional support and nuturing qualities that sustain the family unit and support the father or husband. |
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| are intended and recognized. ex: publicize marriage and formation of new family and legitimize sex. |
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| unintended and unrecognized. ex. communicating hands-off message to past sweethearts. |
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| examines the ways in which groups disagree, struggle for power, and compete for scarce resources such as wealth and prestige. |
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| examines how a family influences and is influenced by its environment. |
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| family development theory |
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| examines the changes that families experience over their lifespans. |
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| consists of the transitions that a family makes as it moves through a series of stages and events. |
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| they learn to fulfill various role expectations and responsibilities, such as showing affection and support for family members and socializing with people outside the family. |
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| Symbolic Interaction Theory |
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| looks at everyday behavior of individuals. |
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| people who play an important role in our socialization. |
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| views the family as a functioning unit that solves problems, makes decisions, and achieves collective goals. |
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| is that people seek through their interactions with others to maximize their rewars and to minimize their costs. |
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| new england custom in which a fully dressed young man and woman spent the night in bed together, separated by a wooden board. |
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| children traced their family descent through their mother's line rather than through that of the father. |
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| parents, children, and parent's godparents maintained close relationships. |
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| glorified woman's domestic roles. |
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