| A | B |
| cultural diffusion | process that social constructions of a group in a society that influence and used as a standard for judgement of less powerful groups |
| heteronormative | masculine and feminine roles play normal and any other relationship roles are abnormal |
| nuclear | children and parents living without other relatives |
| household economy | families production of goods and services at home |
| child savers movement | remove children from poor conditions at home to mold them into functioning people in society |
| welfare regime | term used to describe a government's design to care for it's citizens |
| common law marriage | couple can legally claim married after 10 years of living as if they were married |
| anti-miscegenation laws | laws against white and non whites getting married |
| polygamy | married to more than 1 person at a time |
| DOMA | prohibits any benefits to extend to same sex partner even if legally married |
| compulsory schooling | laws making attendance at school mandatory |
| matrilineal society | group adhering to a kinship system in which ancestral descent is traced through maternal instead of paternal lines |
| gender division of labor | refers to the allocation of different jobs or types of work to women and men |
| industrial revolution | was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. |
| separation of spheres | refers to the different worlds between men and women |
| cult of domesticity | Nineteenth-century, middle-class American women saw their behavior regulated by a social system called |