Chapter 6

Question 1

Achieved Statueses

Answer 1

Social positions people may attain later in life

Question 2

Affinal

Answer 2

Related through marriage

Question 3

Age Sets

Answer 3

Non-kin forms of social organization composed of young men born within a specified time span, which are part of a sequence of age sets that proceeds through youth, maturity, and old age

Question 4

Ascribed Statuses

Answer 4

Social positions people are assigned to at birth

Question 5

Bilateral Descent

Answer 5

Principle that descent group is formed based on connections of relatedness made through both mom and dad

Question 6

Blended Family

Answer 6

Family merged together by another marriage that aren’t related by blood

Question 7

Bridewealth

Answer 7

Family on brides stuff gives their own important things to the grooms family

Question 8

Clan

Answer 8

Group of members that believe they have a common ancestor

Question 9

Conjugal Family

Answer 9

Family based on marriage; at minimum, a spousal pair and their children

Question 10

Dowry

Answer 10

Transfer of wealth from parents to their child

Question 11

Ego,

Answer 11

The person that is getting their kinship mapped

Question 12

Endogamy

Answer 12

Marriage within a social group

Question 13

Exogamy

Answer 13

Marriage outside a social group

Question 14

Extended Family

Answer 14

Family pattern made up of 3 generations living together

Question 15

Family of Chocie

Answer 15

Created overtime by new kin ties and lovers demonstrate their genuine commitment to one another

Question 16

Family

Answer 16

A woman or a man and her/his dependent children

Question 17

Friendship

Answer 17

Unofficial bonds that people construct with others that tend to be personal, affective, and often a matter of choice

Question 18

Joint Family

Answer 18

Family pattern made up of brothers and their wives along with their children living together

Question 19

Kinship

Answer 19

Social relationships that are prototypically derived from the universal human experiences of mating, birth, and nuturance

Question 20

Lineage

Answer 20

Descent group made up of blood relatives who think they can trace their descent from known ancestors

Question 21

Marriage

Answer 21

Transforms the status of the participants, carries implications about sexual access, gives offspring a position in society and establishes connections between the kin of the husband and the kin of a wife

Question 22

Monogamy

Answer 22

Being married to one person at a time

Question 23

Non-Conjugal Family

Answer 23

Woman and her kids, father may occasionally be present or completely absent

Question 24

Nuclear Family

Answer 24

Family made up of 2 generations; parents and their unmarried children

Question 25

Polygamy

Answer 25

Being married to more than one person and a time

Question 26

Relatedness

Answer 26

Socially recognized ties that connect people in a variety of ways

Question 27

Secret Societies

Answer 27

Non-kin forms of social organization that initiate young men or women into social adulthood and reveal “secret” knowledge to initiated members

Question 28

Segementary Opposition

Answer 28

An approach to dispute resolution and social organization in which groups beyond the most basic emerge only in opposition to other groups on the same hierarchical level

Question 29

Sodalities

Answer 29

Non-kin forms of social organization; special purpose groupings that may be organzied on the basis of age, sex, economic role, and or personal interest

Question 30

Unilineal Descent

Answer 30

Pattern of descent in which a descent group is formed based on connections of relatedness made though either father or mother