Unit 12 Concepts
The important concepts in Unit 2 are listed below. The readings and other learning opportunities are designed to help you become familiar with these concepts. You should know the definitions of each concept and also how sociologists use these concepts. Try to incorporate these concepts into your work for this course.
| (1) Family | (26) One-Parent Families |
| (2) Kinship | (27) Cohabitation |
| (3) Extended Family | (28) Gay and Lesbian Couples |
| (4) Nuclear Family | (29) Singlehood |
| (5) Endogamy | (30) The "Traditional" Family |
| (6) Exogamy | (31) Religion |
| (7) Monogamy | (32) Sacred |
| (8) Polygamy | (33) Profane |
| (9) Polygyny | (34) Faith |
| (10) Polyandry | (35) Totem |
| (11) Patrilineal Descent | (36) Protestant Work Ethic |
| (12) Matrilinteal Descent | (37) Liberation Theology |
| (13) Bilateral Descent | (38) Denomination |
| (14) Incest Taboo | (39) Church |
| (15) Courtship | (40) State Church |
| (16) Social Placement | (41) Sect |
| (17) Property | (42) Cult |
| (18) Patriarchy | (43) Charisma |
| (19) Social-Exchange Approach | (44) Animism |
| (20) Arranged Marriage | (45) Religiosity |
| (21) Homogamy | (46) Secularization |
| (22) Infidelity | (47) Civil Religion |
| (23) Divorce | (48) Transcendence |
| (24) Blended Families | (49) Religious Revival |
| (25) Family Violence | (50) Fundamentalism |
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