Chapter 10 Flashcards
Between 1960 and 2019, the percentage of children living with only their mother
nearly tripled.
A ________ is a type of expanded family household that includes siblings and their spouses and children.
collateral household
Which of the following statements is true of generational kinship terminology
It is found in societies with ambilineal descent, where descent-group membership is not automatic.
________ is a flexible descent rule, neither patrilineal nor matrilineal
Ambilineal descent
Together, patrilocality and matrilocality are known as ________ rules of postmarital residence.
unilocal
Which of the following splits the mother’s side from the father’s side but also merges same-sex siblings?
bifurcate merging kinship terminology
A group based on belief in shared ancestry is called
a descent group
Ego’s direct ancestors and descendants are referred to as
lineal relatives.
Relatives by marriage are referred to as
affinals
The kinship pattern that does not distinguish between the mother’s and father’s sides and uses only two terms for relatives on the mother’s and father’s side is
generational kinship terminology.
Which term refers to the family in which a child is raised?
family of orientation
Traditionally, in some areas of the former Yugoslavia, people lived in an extended family household called a zadruga rather than in nuclear families. Among the Nayar in southern India, it was typical for people to live in matrilineal extended family compounds called tarawads. Descriptions of these two culturally specific cases highlight how
there are many alternatives to the nuclear family.
What is the most common system of kinship terminology used in the United States?
lineal kinship terminology
Contemporary North American adults usually define their families as consisting of their husbands or wives and their children. In contrast, when Brazilians talk about their families, they mean their parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, and later their children. They rarely mention the spouse. Which of the following is among the reasons for this stark cultural contrast?
Middle-class North Americans normally lack a readily available extended family support system, so marriage assumes more importance.
A unilineal descent group whose members demonstrate their common descent from an apical ancestor is a(n)
lineage
