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

 

Polyandry, a 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 matriarchal, lines 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 category, as required by custom or law

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

polyamory, intimate 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,

Polygyny, a legally sanctioned or illegal marital relationship in which one man has multiple wives

Polyandry, a 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).