Sociology Chapter 12

Marriage Rate

Is continuing to increase year by year.

Monogamy

Is the practice of marrying (or being in a relationship with) one person at a time.

Cohabitation

Living together in an intimate relationship without formal legal or religious sanctioning. About 24 percent of all never-married Americans between 25 and 34 years old are cohabiting.

Polygamy

Is a system of marriage that allows people to have more than one spouse at a time.

Polygyny

A system of marriage that allows men to have multiple wives.

Polyandry

A system of marriage that allows women to have multiple husbands

Intimate Partner Violence

Abuse, neglect, and manipulation happen across all familial relationships. The most frequent form of family violence is sibling on sibling. More than one-third of women and one-fourth of men have been raped, physically attacked, and/or stalked by an intimate partner at some point.

Nuclear Family

Is a family consisting of a father and mother and their children.

Families and Work

Preindustrial families operated like a small business: the home was a site for work and production, and the entire family was involved.

Extended Family

Refers to familial networks that extend beyond the nuclear family and may extend beyond the home.

Exogamy

Refers to marriage to someone from a different social group.

Endogamy

Refers to marriage to someone within one's social group (race, ethnicity, class, education, religion, region, or nationality).

Blended Families

Step-siblings or half-siblings, families with same-sex parents, interracial families, and immigrant families.

Kinship Networks

Strings of relationships between people related by blood and co-residence (i.e., marriage).

Cult of Domesticity

The notion that true womanhood centers on domestic responsibility and child rearing.

Second Shift

Women's responsibility for housework and childcare— everything from cooking dinner to doing laundry, bathing children, read ing bedtime stories, and sewing Halloween costumes.