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Colonial america families - businesses, schools, churches, and correctional health and welfare
institutions
Industrialized and Urbanized America Families - separate work and home life; waves of immigration
Social class names - Poor, working, middle, and upper classes
Modern America Families - Technology and services brought work back to the home.
Family - relationship by blood, marriage, or affection, in which members may cooperate economically,
may care for children, and may consider their identity to be intimately connected to the larger group
family of orientation - family you are born into
family of procreation - family you make through marriage, partnering, and/or parenthood
fictive kin - non-relatives whose bonds are strong and intimate
marriage - an institutional arrangement between persons to publicly recognize social and intimate
bonds
socialization - process by which people learn the rules, expectations, and culture of the society
social structure - stable framework of social relationships that guides our interactions with others
micro-level - focus on the individual and his or her interactions in specific settings
, macro-level - focus on the interconnectedness of marriage, families, and intimate relationships with the
rest of society
social institution - major sphere of social life, with a set of beliefs and rules that is organized to meet
basic human needs
status - social position that a person occupies
master status - major defining status of statuses that a person occupies
human agency - ability of human beings to create viable lives even when they are constrained or limited
by social forced
monogamy - marriage between one man and one woman
polygamy - system that allows for more than one spouse at a time (gender unspecified)
polygyny - marriage pattern in which husbands can have more than one wife
polyandry - marriage pattern in which wives are allowed to have more than one husband
patriarchy - form of social organization in which the norm or expectation is that men have a natural right
to be in positions of authority over women
matriarchy - form of social organization in which the norm or expectation is that the power and
authority in society would be vested in women
egalitarian - expectation that power and authority and vested in both men and women, equally
bilateral - descent that can be traced through both male and female sides of the family