Family

Question 1

Two or more people related by blood, marriage or adoption.

Answer 1

Family

Question 2

Basic Residential unit where economic, production, consumption, inheritance, child rearing and shelter are organized and carried out

Answer 2

Household

Question 3

Socially or ritually recognized union or legal contract between spouses that established rights and obligation between them, between them and their children, and between them and their in-laws.v

Answer 3

Marriage

Question 4

Compulsory marriage in their own village, community, ethnic, social, or religious group,

Answer 4

Endogamy

Question 5

Marriage custom where an individual is required by social norms to marry outside their own group, community, or social classes

Answer 5

Exogamy

Question 6

Both married partners have 1 spouse

Answer 6

Monogamy

Question 7

One individual has multiple spouses

Answer 7

Polygamy

Question 8

One man is married to more than one woman simultaneously

Answer 8

Polygyny

Question 9

One woman is married to more than one man simultaneously

Answer 9

Polyandry

Question 10

Adoption of the prospective son-in-law before the wedding takes place.

Answer 10

Adoptive

Question 11

A union between two women, an older and a younger one. Practiced by the Nuer tribe in Africa.

Answer 11

Fictive

Question 12

Union of a bridegroom and a bride only with the consent and agreement that the bridegroom’s sister will marry the bride’s brother.

Answer 12

Sister Exchange

Question 13

Capturing of the bride by the Bridegroom.

Answer 13

Bride capture

Question 14

A widow should/must marry her dead husband’s brother, or, all the rest of the husband’s brothers at the same time.

Answer 14

Levirate

Question 15

A widower should/must marry his dead wife’s sister, or, all the rest of the wife’s sisters at the same time.

Answer 15

Sororate

Question 16

Marital structure in which 3 or more adults form sexual, affective, romantic, or other intimate partnerships, either short-term or long-term.

Answer 16

Group

Question 17

Married couple lives in the residence of his husband’s father

Answer 17

Patrilocal

Question 18

Man is expected to take residence in his wife’s mother area.

Answer 18

Matrilocal

Question 19

Newlywed couple stay with the husband’s relatives and the kin alternately.

Answer 19

Bilocal

Question 20

Requires both spouses to leave their households and create their own times even in a different locality

Answer 20

Neolocal

Question 21

Parents +offspring; may include a stepparent, step siblings and adopted children

Answer 21

Nuclear family

Question 22

1 parent + 1 or more children; consequence of divorce or separation, births to unmarried mothers, death of spouse, desertion

Answer 22

Single-parent Families

Question 23

Family units where one or both members have children from their previous relationship

Answer 23

Stepfamilies/Reconstituted Families

Question 24

Network of relatives within which an individual possesses certain mutual rights and obligations.

Answer 24

Kinship

Question 25

kinship through bloodline

Answer 25

Consanguinity

Question 26

kinship through marriage

Answer 26

Affinity

Question 27

child is automatically assigned to either his mother or father’s group

Answer 27

Unilineal descent

Question 28

children are automatically made members of the father’s group

Answer 28

Patrilineal descent

Question 29

children are automatically made members of the mother’s group

Answer 29

Matrilineal descent

Question 30

children can be made members of all ancestor’s groups

Answer 30

Bilateral descent

Question 31

ritual parenthood due to ceremonies

Answer 31

Compadrazgo

Question 32

spiritual parenthood due to ceremonies

Answer 32

Padrinazgo

Question 33

In the kinship diagram, what gender does a triangle symbolize

Answer 33

male

Question 34

In the kinship diagram, what gender does a square symbolize

Answer 34

ego

Question 35

In the kinship diagram, what gender does a circle symbolize

Answer 35

female