| A | B |
|---|
| endogamy | selecting a patner in one's own social group |
| exogamy | look outside one's family group to avoid incest |
| homogamy | individual initiative toward sameness |
| mating gradient | husbands more advanced then wives |
| propinquity | tendency to marry someone who lives/ works in close proximity |
| complementary-needs theroy | select mates whose needs are opposite |
| exchange theroy | mate selection based on greatest rewards vs lowest cost |
| principle of least interest | person with least interest most control |
| sociobiology | biological basis for all social behavior |
| prenuptial agreement | contract stating property distribution if marriage fails |
| marraige penalty | married couple pays higher taxes |
| sexual orientation | the aim of one's sexual interests |
| homosexuality | sexual attraction to same sex |
| heterosexuality | sexual attraction to opposite sex |
| bisexuality | sexual attraction to both sexes |
| heterosexism | a system that denies, denigrates and stigmatizeds any nonheterosecual form of behavior |
| gender | psychological charateristics associated with being female or male |
| gender identity | psychological state of viewing one's self as a boy or girl |
| occupational sex segregation | concetration of women in certian occupations and men in others |
| gender role ideology | beliefs about the proper role relationships between men and women in any given society |
| parental investment | invest ment of parents that increases the offspring's chance of surviving |
| feminization of poverty | disproportionate % of povety experienanced by women |
| sexism | an attitude, action, or institutional structue that subordinates or discriminates against an individual or group because of their sex |
| gender roles | social norms that dictate what is socially regarded as appropriate femal and male behavior |
| FGM | female genital mutilation |
| androgyny | blend of trais that are sterotypically associated wht masculinity and femininity |
| gender role transcendence | abandoning gender frameworks and looking at phenomena independent of gender framework |
| sex | bilogical distinction between females and males |
| sex roles | behavior devined by biological constraints |
| commitment | an intent to maintain the relationship |
| rite of passage | an event that marks the transistion form on social status to another |
| disenchantment | transition form a state of newness and high expectation to a state of mundaness |
| racism | the belief that some groups are as a resule of heredity, inferior to other groups |
| may-december marriage | a union in which partners are ten or more years apart in age |
| marital success | marital stability and marital happiness |
