Ch. 10 - Families, Kinship, and Descent

Question 1

Nuclear family in which one is born and grows up

Answer 1

Family of orientation

Question 2

Nuclear family established when one marries and has children

Answer 2

Family of procreation

Question 3

Group based on belief in shared ancestry

Answer 3

Descent group

Question 4

Living situation in which a couple establishes new residence

Answer 4

Neolocality

Question 5

Household that includes a group of relatives other than, or in addition to, a married couple and their children

Answer 5

Expanded family household

Question 6

Household with three or more generations

Answer 6

Extended family household

Question 7

Matrilineal or patrilineal descent

Answer 7

Unilineal descent

Question 8

Unilineal descent group based on demonstrated descent

Answer 8

Lineage

Question 9

Unilineal descent group based on stipulated descent

Answer 9

Clan

Question 10

Flexible descent rule, neither patrilineal nor matrilineal

Answer 10

Ambilineal descent

Question 11

Position from which one views an egocentric genealogy

Answer 11

Ego

Question 12

How people in a particular society reckon kin relations

Answer 12

Kinship calculation

Question 13

The words used for different relatives in a particular language and system of kinship calculation

Answer 13

Kin terms

Question 14

Kin ties calculated equally through both sexes

Answer 14

Bilateral kinship calculation

Question 15

Four parental kin terms: M, F, FB=MB, and MZ=FZ

Answer 15

Lineal kinship terminology

Question 16

Ego’s direct ancestors and descendants

Answer 16

Lineal relatives

Question 17

Relative outside ego’s direct line, e.g., B, Z, FB, MZ

Answer 17

Collateral relative

Question 18

Relatives by marriage

Answer 18

Affinals

Question 19

Four parental kin terms: M=MZ, F=FB, MB, and FZ each stand alone

Answer 19

Bifurcate merging kinship terminology

Question 20

Just two parental kin terms: M=MZ=FZ and F=FB=MB

Answer 20

Generational kinship terminology

Question 21

Six separate parental kin terms: M, F, MB, MZ, FB, and FZ

Answer 21

Bifurcate collateral kinship terminology