Marriage

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Marriage Family
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A Family Is.

• A social unit of two or more people
• Blood, marriage, adoption
• Household living arrangement
• Family of orientation experience socialization
• Family of procreation formation of family
  through children
• Legal or blood ties

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Kinship

• network based on family ties
• Pattern of descent tracing kinship over
  generations
• Basic needs
• Production of goods
• Allocation of power
• Transfer of property
• Matrilineal through mothers side
• Patrilineal through fathers side
• Bilateral both sides

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Family Types

• Extended network of parents, children, other
  relatives
• fictive kin (Stack 1974)
• othermothers (Collins 1990)
• compadrazgo
• Nuclear parents, children
• Developed out of industrialization
  suburbanization
• Isolated

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Marriage

• Legal, cultural, and/or socially approved
  arrangement by 2 (or more) people
• Romantic love intimacy
• Economic cooperation
• Alliance between families

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Cultural Variations of Marriage

• Monogamy one spouse
• Serial monogamy
• Endogamy within group
• Exogamy outside group
• Polygamy multiple wives
• Polyandry multiple husbands

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Mate Selection, Or More to Marriage Than Just
Love

• Marriage Resources
• Homogamy similar characteristics
• Outside influences
• Demographics
• Sex ratio
• Geography
• Marriage Market