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• What is a group to which one does not belong and may feel competitiveness or hostility towards?

  Out-group
• What is a social group with which an individual does not identify?

  Out-group
• What is the bond that binds people together in a kinship group?

  Blood or marriage
• What are the two types of kinship relationships?

  • Affinal Kinship: Based on marriage or cohabitation.
  • Consanguineous Kinship: Traced by blood connections.
• What does unilineal descent trace?


  Descent only through a single line of ancestors
• What are the two basic forms of unilineal descent?

  Patrilineal and matrilineal
• What is the definition of marriage in the context of kinship?

  A legally or formally recognized union of two people
• What is monogamy?


  The practice of having only one spouse at one time
• What is social monogamy?

  Two persons living together and cooperating in acquiring resources
• What is sexual monogamy?

  Two persons remaining sexually exclusive with one another
• What is genetic monogamy?

  Two partners that only have offspring with one another
• What is marital monogamy?

  Marriages of only two people
• What is serial monogamy?

  A series of relationships where one person has one partner at a time
• What is polygyny?


  The practice of one man having more than one wife
• What is polyandry?


  The practice of one woman having multiple husbands
• What is endogamy?


  The custom of marrying only within a local community, clan, or tribe
• What is exogamy?


  The custom of marrying outside a community, clan, or tribe
• What are the types of postmarital residency rules?

  • Patrilocal: Living with the husband's family.
  • Matrilocal: Living with the wife's family.
  • Biolocal: Couples may live separately from both families.
• What is child marriage?

  When parents arrange for the marriage of their child long before it takes place
• What is exchange marriage?


  A form of marriage involving an arranged and reciprocal exchange of spouses
• What is diplomatic marriage?

  A marriage established between two royal or political families for alliances
• What is modern arranged marriage?

  A marriage arranged by families or matchmakers in contemporary society
• What is kinship by ritual?

  • Compadrazgo: A form of kinship established through ritual relationships.
• What is a nuclear family?


  • A family consisting of a married man and their biological children.
• What is an extended family?

  • A family where grandparents, aunts, and uncles play major roles.
  • May include relatives living with the children.
• What is a blended family?


  • A family where parents have children from previous relationships.
  • All members form a new family unit.
• What are the functions of the structural functionalism theory in family?

  • Agent of socialization
  • Provides emotional and practical support
  • Controls sexual activity and reproduction