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patrilocal

residence of a married couple with husband's kin. Often this specifically means with the husband's father, but not always, so the synonym virilocal is often used to distance it from PATRILINEAL DESCENT.
Collins Dictionary of Sociology, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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The patrilineal and patrilocal practices influence families to hold traditional values that preference sons over daughters, based on both conceived notions of the intrinsic abilities of the male and parental expectations for old age support (Wolf 1985; Honig and Hershatter 1988).
According to the researchers, this"patrilocal" type of social pattern, in which new couples live in the territory of the man's family, combined with individual female mobility, was not a temporary phenomenon but rather lasted for some 800 years during the transition from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age.
This so-called patrilocal pattern combined with individual female mobility was not a temporary phenomenon, but persisted over a period of 800 years during the transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age.
For example, "classic patriarchy" is one form of patriarchy which is based on agricultural mode of production, patrilocal residence, patrilineal corporate extended household, the material and symbolic authority of the senior man, the wealth flow from children to the parents, and high fertility (Kandiyoti, 1988).
As patrilocal practice remains popular in this community, many young women, including my participants, are expected to move in with their husbands and in-laws after getting married.
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