Exam 3

Question 1

Bronislaw Malinowski

Answer 1

Studied cultural universals, in the Pacific

Question 2

Clyde Kluchholm

Answer 2

Studied 139 cultures and their sexual preferences

Question 3

Bride service

Answer 3

Live and work with the brides family sees debt paid

Question 4

Bride dowry

Answer 4

Pay the guy to marry the woman, females were more expensive to raise

Question 5

Culture and influences on sexuality

Answer 5

Determines what genders are okay, ie homosexuality, etc

How many times a day you can have intercourse, or if there are only certain times you can

Question 6

Role of the family

Answer 6

1 nurture offspring

2 protect offspring

3 inculturation and socialization

Question 7

Nuclear family

Answer 7

Mom, dad, and kids

Question 8

Lineage

Answer 8

Group of people who perceive they descend of common ancestors two types:

Patriarchal: through male ancestors, typically in pastoral societies

Matriarchal: through female ancestors, usually in horticultural societies

Question 9

Major types of marriage patterns

Answer 9

Monogamy: only one wife/husband at a time, 2/3 of the world have more than one spouse

Polygamy: only husband can have multiple wives2/3 of the above 2/3

Polyandry: female can have multiple husbands (common inTibet and North India), 2/3 of the above 2/3

Question 10

Sister marriage

Answer 10

Try to take sister of wife, but doesn’t always work out, part of polygamy

Question 11

Parallel cousins

Answer 11

Cousins from siblings of same sex, so mother’s sister and father’s brother

Question 12

Cross cousins

Answer 12

Cousins from siblings of opposite sex siblings, so mother’s brother, and father’s sister

Question 13

Joking avoidance

Answer 13

Pointed out, but okay to marry

Question 14

Avoidance

Answer 14

Pointed out, but not okay to marry

Question 15

Bilateral descent system

Answer 15

Come from both side of the parents, shared equally, found in US

Question 16

Matrilineal

Answer 16

Only mothers side of family counts, not any part of fathers, the mothers brother becomes the social father, nothing to do with the bio dad

Question 17

Patrilineal

Answer 17

Pastorla societies, fathers side, opposite of matrilineal

Question 18

Neolocal residence

Answer 18

Only in the US/ industrial societies, push the kidsout to live on own

Question 19

Matrilocal

Answer 19

In or near home of mother (brides)

Question 20

Patrilocal

Answer 20

In or near home of husbands father

Question 21

Avunculocal

Answer 21

In or near home of mothers brothers, kinship status determines importance of behavior towards relatives

Question 22

Eskimo system (kinship types)

Answer 22

Mother, father, sister, brother, grandma and grandma have different terms

Question 23

Crow (maternal)

Answer 23

Only mothers side had distinct kin terms, fathers side are all one term like “ang”

Question 24

Omaha (paternal)

Answer 24

Fathers side had distinct kin terms, mithers side is all one, like “bong”

Question 25

Internal mechanisms

Answer 25

Discovery: always been around but no one knew about it, ie the gold rush

Invention: taking things that exist and recombining them, Lelsie White a neoevolutionist from University of Michigan

Innovation: ideas and ideology , not material items

Social movements: equal distribution of assets and resources, ie the black rights movement

Question 26

External mechanisms

Answer 26

Diffusion: culture change due to contact and borrowing, no onehas to get hurt

Stimulus diffusion: you borrow idea, but change the form it is presented in, no serious consequences

Acculturation: directed, forced culture change, extremely ethnocentric and has three end results

1) extinction
2) assimilation - people still there, but their original culture is not
3) cultural pluralism: coexistence between two cultures

For external mechanism there muse be:
A dominant culture, contact setting that is continuous, contact has to be face to face

Question 27

Bride proce

Answer 27

Amount of goods paid by family of groom to the family of the bride