32. VOCABULARY – Pattern of Family Organization

Patterns of family organization: vocabulary list

KIN: People who are related by common ancestry or origins; most often blood relations.

FAMILY: A group of kin who live together and function as an ongoing Co-operative unit for economic and other purposes.

CONSANGUINE FAMILY: Biological relatives.

CONJUGAL FAMILY: A group of relatives by marriage.

PATRILOCAL FAMILY: A society where sons are expected to bring their, brides to their parents’ house and daughters are expected to go to their husband’s household.

MATRILOCAL FAMILY: A society where daughters are expected to, remain in their parents’ house hold and the sons move in with their wives house.

NEOLOCAL FAMILY: A society where newly married couples set up separate residences independent of either spouse’s parents.

PATRILINEAL FAMILY: A pattern of descent where the children belong to the kin group of their father. Often found in patrilocal societies.

MATRILINEAL: A pattern of descent where the children belong to the kin group of their mother. Often found in matrilocal societies.

BILATERAL FAMILY: A pattern of descent where the children are equally related to both their mother’s and father’s families. Often found in neolocal societies.

PATRIARCHAL FAMILY: A form of family organization in which the father is dominant.

MATRIARCHAL FAMILY: A form of family, organization in which the mother is dominant.

EGALITARIAN FAMILY: A form of family organization in which the father and mother share authority.

EXTENDED FAMILY: A family unit that consists of a nuclear family plus one or more relatives living together.

NUCLEAR FAMILY: A unit of family organization consisting of a couple and their children living together.