Chapter 7

Question 1

endogamy

Answer 1

marriage within one’s social group

Question 2

exogamy

Answer 2

marriage outside ones social group

Question 3

extended family

Answer 3

family unit consisting of the parent-child nuclear family and other relatives such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins

Question 4

family

Answer 4

two or more persons including the householders who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption and who live together as one household

Question 5

household

Answer 5

living arrangement composed of one or more people who occupy a housing unit

Question 6

monogamy

Answer 6

practice of being married to only one person at a time

Question 7

neolocal residence

Answer 7

living arrangement in which a married couple sets up residence separate from either spouse’s family

Question 8

nuclear family

Answer 8

family unit consisting of at least one parent and one child

Question 9

polygram

Answer 9

marriage of one person to more than one spouse at the same time