| A | B |
|---|
| polygamy | common in Arab nations & Muslim parts of West Africa |
| Niger | country with youngest average age for marriage |
| family | most universal social institution |
| cohabitation | living together w/out marriage |
| serial monogamy | 1 partner at a time but a series of partners over a lifetime |
| role strain | also known as role overload |
| patrilocality | copule lives with or near the husband's parents |
| family of orientation | nuclear family into which one is born or adopted |
| bilateral descent | kinship traced through both parents |
| polygyny | marriage of one man to multiple women |
| sandwich couple | caught between the needs of their parents & kids |
| homogamy | marriage between individuals who have similar social characteristcs |
| polyandry | marriage of one woman to multiple wives |
| bilineal | descent comes equally from mother's and father's family & allegiance is shared |
| neolocal | a married couple lives away from either of their parents |
| egalitarian | husbands & wives share authority equally |
| endogamy | marriage within a specific group/tribe |
| exogamy | marrying someone from a different tribe |
| communal marriage | group marriage |
| heterogamy | marriage to someone significantly different, this is increasingly acceptable in our society |
