| A | B |
|---|
| monogamy | 1 man: 1 woman |
| heterogamy | marriage to someone different from yourself or your family/cultural group |
| homogamy | marriage to someone culturally similar to oneself |
| polyandry | 1 woman: several males |
| polygyny | 1 man: several women |
| nuclear | immediate family members with no more than two generations |
| extended | family composition includes 3 or more generations and relatives distant from the immediate family |
| endogamy | pressure to marry within one's own social, class, religious and/or cultural group |
| exogamy | pressure to marry outside one's immediate social groups; avoidance of incest |
| neolocal | family residence separate from other family members |
| patrilineal | tracing family line through the male side of the family |
| matrilineal | tracing family through the mother's side of the family |
| matriarchal | most authority and power rest in the hands of the oldest female of the family |
| patriarchal | most authority and power rest in the hands of the oldest male in the family |
| democratic | authority and power are shared by both spouses/parents |
| patrilocal | sons marry and bring their wives to live in their father's household |
| orientation | family into which one is born |
| procreation | family created when one marries and reproduces |
