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Chapter 13: Marriage and Family

Notes: Homogamy, marrying or establishing a relationship with someone with similar social and economic characteristics (HP), is the norm in many relationships. 

The topics of marriagea socially constructed relationship that assumes financial and sexual cooperation between two people, and familya group of people connected by blood, marriage, adoption, or agreed upon relationship (HP), are among students’ favorites in their Introductory Sociology course

 

Polyandrya legally sanctioned or illegal marital relationship in which one woman has multiple husbands, is the rarest form of marriage and is found on a limited basis in India, Nepal, China, and Tibet. Within the Nepalese culture, the Nyinba people occasionally practice polyandry and are often associated with a matriarchallines of descent traced through the maternal side of the family and characterized by the dominance of women, system.

endogamy, marrying or establishing a relationship within one’s own social group or categoryas required by custom or law

When Indian couples marry outside of their caste, they practice exogamymarrying or establishing a relationship outside one’s social group or category.

polyamoryintimate relationships with multiple partners, with the informed consent of all partners, are on the rise.

Polygamy, a legally sanctioned or illegal marital relationship in which one person has more than one husband or wife at the same time,

Polygynya legally sanctioned or illegal marital relationship in which one man has multiple wives

Polyandrya legally sanctioned or illegal marital relationship in which one woman has multiple husbands

 

  • Authoritarian parents attempt to maintain strict control over their child’s life.
  • Permissive parents give the child extensive freedom to make choices with little input from the parent (Baumrind 1971).
  • Authoritative parents offer a middle-ground combination of control and freedom (Baumrind 1991).
  • Neglectful parents have low involvement in the child’s life (Maccoby and Martin 1983).