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• social group collection of two or more people who interact with one another
• primary group it is small, intimate and less specialize groups
• secondary group are larger, less intimate and more specialized groups
• reference group to which we compare ourselves. serve as a standard
• in-group one belongs and with which one feels a sense of identity
• out-group individual does not identify with. one feels antagonism
• networks a structure of connection of an individual with oneself
• kinship refers to relations formed between members of society
• descent refers to the origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality
• kinship by blood or consanguineal kinship is achieved by birth or blood affinity
• unilineal either from patrilineal or matrilineal descent but not both
• patrilineal is reckoned through his or her father's line of descent
• matrilineal is seen through his or her mother's line of descent
• bilateral both from the mothers and the fathers line of descent
• kinship by marriage of affinal kinship developed when a marriage occurs
• marriage union or legal contract between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between them
• affinal kinship human relation through marriage
• endogamy partner must be selected from a person's own social group
• exogamy partner must be chosen from a group different from one's own
• monogamy refers to the marriage of one woman to one man at a time
• serial monogamy if remarriage is allowed following divorce or death of a partner
• polygamy having more than one legal spouse at the same time
• polygyny if a man is married to more than one wife at a time
• polyandry when it is woman who is married to more than one spouse
• child marriage parents of child arrange a future marrieage with another child parents
• exchange marriage involves reciprocal exchange of spouses between two nations, groups or tribes
• diplomatic marriage marriages arranged for political reasons
• modern arranged marriage parents choose several possible mates for the child
• post-marital residency rules patterns of behavior concerning the place a married couple live after marriage
• patrilocal with or near the husbands patrilineal kinsmen
• matrilocal residence is with or near the wife's patrilineal kinsmen
• avunculocal residence is with or near the maternal uncle
• bilocal with or near the parents of either spouse
• neolocal residence is apart from the relatives of both spouses
• kinship by ritual an individual has religious, economic, or political relationship with or other kinds of social ties such as friendships
• family and household refers to a group of people living together and functioning as a single household
• nuclear family consisting a pair of adults and other offspring
• extended family married couple and his children that live with either the husband or the wife's parents
• reconstituted family which either one or both of the adults have a child or children from a previous relationship living in their home
• transitional family adopt separate living arrangement in two or more countries but retain close links with their homeland