In the society where Oscar lives, members are encouraged to marry someone within their cultural economic and religious group. This is an example of:

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The encouragement of marriage within one's cultural, economic, and religious group is an example of endogamy, which is the practice of marrying within a specific social group. The practice of encouraging members to marry within their cultural, economic, and religious groups is an example of endogamy, which is the opposite of exogamy (marrying someone outside of one's group). Monogamy refers to the practice of having only one spouse, patrilineal descent is a system of tracing descent through the father's side of the family, and socio-cultural descent is not a recognized term in sociology.

In the Society Where Oscar Lives, Members Are Encouraged to Marry