Chapter 10

Question 1

What is a decent group?

Answer 1

A group based on belief in a shared ancestry

Question 2

What is a nuclear family?

Answer 2

A mother, father, and biological children –> it is not universal

Question 3

What is a family of orientation?

Answer 3

A family in which one is born and grows up

Question 4

What is a family of procreation?

Answer 4

Formed when one marries and has children

Question 5

What is an extended family household?

Answer 5

An expanded family household that included three or more generations –.> usually for economic reasons

Question 6

Women in the work force?

Answer 6

There has been an increase in women in the work force since an increase in the marriage age from 21 (1970) to 26.5 (2011)

Question 7

Divorce rates?

Answer 7

More than half of marriages resulted in divorce in 2010

Question 8

What is lineage?

Answer 8

Unilineal descent group based on demonstrated descent

Question 9

What is patrilocality?

Answer 9

Married couples live with husbands family –> more common

Question 10

What is matrilocality?

Answer 10

Married couples live with wife’s family

Question 11

What is a clan?

Answer 11

A descent group that claims common descent from an apical ancestor but cannot demonstrate it