Family Types
This is a group of people who are related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
What is a family?
Your mother is this level of kinship.
This is the general term for a marriage with multiple partners.
What is polygamy?
This occurs when most, if not all the authority lies with the men in the family.
What is a patriarchy?
This is the number of major functions the family performs for society.
What are four?
This is the term for two or more generations of a family.
What is extended family?
Your niece is this level of kinship
What is secondary?
This is the term for a marriage between only two people.
What is monogamy?
This is the term for when a married couple lives with or very near the man's family.
What is patrilocality?
Family is the first and most important socializer of this group.
What are children?
This is the general type of family consisting of a parent or parents and their kid(s).
What is nuclear family?
Your brother-in-law is this level of kinship.
What is secondary?
This is the specific term for a marriage between one woman and multiple men.
What is polyandry?
This occurs when lineage is traced through the woman's line only and daughters inherit property from their mothers.
What is matrilineal descent?
The function of family that focuses on creating children.
What is reproduction?
This is the type of nuclear family that consists of Charlie, Charlie's siblings, and Charlie's parents.
What is a nuclear family of orientation?
Your Great-Grandmother is this level of kinship.
What is tertiary?
This is the specific term for a marriage between one man and multiple women.
What is polygyny?
This type of residential pattern is most common in the United States.
What is neolocality?
This the function of the family that focuses on money acquisition, division of labor, guiding young people and provide them with any support-physical or emotional they need growing up.
What is economic & emotional security?
This is the type of nuclear family that consists of Pat, Pat's spouse, and Pat's children.
What is a nuclear family of procreation?
Your step-grandparent is this level of kinship.
What is tertiary?
These are the reasons why polygamy is rare.
What are it is expensive and it can lead to gender imbalances in a region?
This is the term for equal levels of authority being shared between parents.
What is egalitarian?
This function of family establishes incest taboos and clearly defines who can and cannot be involved in sexual relationships.
What is regulation of sexual activity?