Chapter 11: Marriage, Family, and Gender

Question 1

Kinship

Answer 1

Systems that focus on ideas about shared substance and its transmission.

Question 2

Descent groups

Answer 2

Those who trace their lineage to a single ancestor, real or fictive.

Question 3

Bilateral descent

Answer 3

Related to each other by connections made through their mother and father equally.

Question 4

Patrilineal descent

Answer 4

Group formed by people connected by father-child links.

Question 5

Matrilineal descent

Answer 5

Group formed by people connected by mother-child links.

Question 6

Nuclear family

Answer 6

Family pattern made up of 2 generations: Parents and their unmarried kids.

Question 7

Extended family

Answer 7

Family pattern made up of 3 generations living together: Parents, married children, and grandchildren.

Question 8

Family of orientation

Answer 8

Family in which one is born and grows up.

Question 9

Family of procreation

Answer 9

Formed through marriage and children.

Question 10

Neolocality

Answer 10

New home

Question 11

Patrilocality

Answer 11

Married couples living in the husband’s community.

Question 12

Matrilocality

Answer 12

Married couples living in the wife’s community.

Question 13

Monogamy

Answer 13

A marriage pattern in which a person may be married to only one person at a time.

Question 14

Polygamy

Answer 14

Having more than one spouse at a time (Is illegal in Canada).

Question 15

Endogamy

Answer 15

Marriage within a defined social group.

Question 16

Exogamy

Answer 16

Marriage outside a defined social group.

Question 17

Incest

Answer 17

In Canada a person may not marry their parent, grandparent, child, grandchild or sibling (Siblings by half, whole, or adoption).

Question 18

Bridewealth

Answer 18

Transfer goods/labour from the groom’s family to the bride’s.

Question 19

Dowry

Answer 19

The wealth transferred from parents to their daughter or husband.

Question 20

Sex

Answer 20

Biological and physical differences.

Question 21

Gender

Answer 21

A person’s experience and expression of their identity as male, female, both, or neither.

Question 22

Gender roles

Answer 22

Culturally appropriate roles of individuals in society of different sexes and/or gender identities.

Question 23

Sexual orientation

Answer 23

Romantic or sexual attraction to another person.

Question 24

Gender stereotypes

Answer 24

Oversimplified, strongly held ideas about the characteristics of males and females.

Question 25

Gender stratification

Answer 25

Unequal distribution of rewards between men and women.

Question 26

Polygyny

Answer 26

When a man has more than one wife.

Question 27

Polyandry

Answer 27

The rare case in which a woman has more than one husband.

Question 28

Levirate marriage

Answer 28

When the brother of a man who has died is required to marry his brother’s widow.

Question 29

Consanguinity

Answer 29

The quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person.

Question 30

Affinal

Answer 30

Of a family relationship by marriage of a relative.

Question 31

Fa’afafine

Answer 31

Samoan boys that are raised to identify as females.