uscp

• refers to two or more related by blood, marriage, or adoption

  family
• most important social unit in which enculturation and socialization takes place. (basic unit in society)

  family
• network of relatives within which an individual possesses certain mutual rights and obligation.

  kinship
• 2 types of kinship

  blood and marriage
• trace though blood line

  kinship by blood
• father's family line

  patrilineal
• mother's family line

  matrilineal
• children that are made members of all ancestor's groups of both parents and grandparents.

  bilateral
• legal union of two people regulated by laws and beliefs.

  marriage
• both married partners only have one spouse

  monogamy
• on individual has multiple spouses.

  polygamy
• man married to more than one

  polygyny
• woman married to more than one

  polyandry
• basic residential unit

  household
• couple lives in husbands side of the family

  patrilocal
• couple lives in the wife's family

  matrilocal
• married couple may choose either patrilocal or matrilocal

  ambilocal
• couple lives on their own house hold

  neolocal
• smallest unit, consist of two or one parents and a offspring.

  nuclear family
• three or more generations for of household

  extended family
• one parents with one or more children

  single-parent family
• one of both members have children from their previous relationship

  step families