Ch. 8

Question 1

Term used to describe a biological set of parents

Answer 1

Genitor

Question 2

Term used to describe a social set of parents

Answer 2

Pater

Question 3

A rule requiring marriage outside of a specified social or kinship group

Answer 3

Exogamy

Question 4

A rule requiring marriage within a specified social or kinship group

Answer 4

Endogamy

Question 5

A preferred form of marriage between either parallel or cross cousins

Answer 5

Preferential Cousin Marriage

Question 6

The practice of a man marrying the widow of his deceased brother

Answer 6

Levirate

Question 7

The practice of a woman marrying the husband of her deceased sister

Answer 7

Sororate

Question 8

The marital practice of having only one spouse at a time

Answer 8

Monogamy

Question 9

The marriage of a woman to two or more men at the same time

Answer 9

Polyandry

Question 10

The marriage of man to two or more women at the same time

Answer 10

Polygyny

Question 11

What is polygamy?

Answer 11

Having two or more spouses at the same time

Question 12

What is polyamory?

Answer 12

Intimate relationships between three or more people at the same time

Question 13

The transfer of goods from the groom’s lineage to the bride’s lineage to legitimize marriage

Answer 13

Bridewealth

Question 14

Work or service performed for the bride’s family by the groom for a specified period of time either before or after the marriage

Answer 14

Bride Service

Question 15

Goods or money transferred form the bride’s family to the groom or the groom’s family to legalize or legitimize marriage

Answer 15

Dowry

Question 16

When the married couple lives or near the relatives of the husband’s father

Answer 16

Patrilocal residence

Question 17

What is Matrilocal residence?

Answer 17

The married couple lives with or near the relatives of the wife

Question 18

The married couple lives with or near the husband’s mother’s brother

Answer 18

Avunculocal residence

Question 19

The married couple has a choice of living with either the relatives of the wife or the relatives of the husband

Answer 19

Ambilocal residence

Question 20

What’s a Neolocal residence?

Answer 20

The married couple establishes an independent place of residence away from the relatives of either spouse

Question 21

The family unit composed of a wife, husband, and children

Answer 21

Nuclear Family

Question 22

The family that includes, in one household, relatives in addition to a nuclear family

Answer 22

Extended Family

Question 23

Relationships between people based on blood or marriage

Answer 23

Kinship

Question 24

What are the 8 principles of Kinship classification?

Answer 24

Generation

Sex/Gender

Lineality/Collaterality

Blood vs. Marriage (Consanguineal vs. Affinal)

Relative age

Sex/gender of the connecting relative

Social Condition

Side of the family

Question 25

Descent traced through either a male line or female line, but not both

Answer 25

Unilineal Descent

Question 26

A form of descent in which people trace their primary kin connections through their mothers

Answer 26

Matrilineal Descent Group

Question 27

A form of descent in which people trace their primary kin relationships through their fathers

Answer 27

Patrilineal Descent Group

Question 28

A system of governance whereby women rule over men or are empowered to make decisions over men

Answer 28

Matriarchy

Question 29

A form of descent in which a person chooses to affiliate with a kin group through either the male or the female line

Answer 29

Ambilineal Descent

Question 30

A type of kinship system in which individuals emphasize both their mothers kin and their father’s kin relatively equally

Answer 30

Bilateral Descent