Family and Households- Lecture

Question 1

What are the ‘family’ in Nayar culture?

Answer 1

• society organized in kin groups

- strife for kin’s purity: sexual involvement with other groups –> one could be put to death

Question 2

What is two staged marriage in Nayar culture?

Answer 2

• ceremonial marriage of pre-puberty girls
• upon reaching puberty girls began receiving night visitors from their kin
• no man had responsibility over any children, men visited may women this way, but one of them should give a gift to a midwife when a child is born (to prove paternity)

Question 3

What are the three traditional definitions of marriage? (don’t need to know word for word)

Answer 3

1) A group composed of a woman and her dependent children which may or may not include at least one adult male joined through marriage or blood relationship
2) A group of people providing nutrition and socialization for their children (natural or adopted)
3) A married or common-law could with or without children, or a lone parent with dependent children

Question 4

What are the two basic types of family?

Answer 4

1) Nuclear family

2) Extended family

Question 5

What is the most important defining feature of the Nayar family?

Answer 5

Bloodline

Question 6

What is the nuclear family?

Answer 6

organized around conjugal tie (husband-wife relationship)

Question 7

What is the extended family?

Answer 7

is based on consanguineal (that is blood) relations extending over three or more generations

Question 8

What is a tool for resolving conflicts in our society?

Answer 8

family

Question 9

What are three functions of the family?

Answer 9

1) nurturance of children
2) economic cooperation
3) provide child with models from whom they can learn gender appropriate roles

Question 10

Does ‘household’ equal ‘family’?

Answer 10

no

Question 11

In most societies,___constitute___or___are built around___.

Answer 11

families
households
household
families

Question 12

What are household?

Answer 12

basic residential units that implement:

• economic production
• inheritance
• shelter
• consumption
• child rearing

Question 13

Why do families not equal households?

Answer 13

Households as “domestic groups” may consist of several families.

Question 14

What are five basic residence patterns?

Answer 14

1. neolocal
2. patrilocal
3. matrilocal
4. ambilocal
5. avunculocal

Question 15

What is the nuclear family and neolocal residence?

Answer 15

married couple establishes independent household

Question 16

What percent of the world’s societies are neolocal?

Answer 16

5%

Question 17

What residence patterns in the number 1 choice for both North America and the Inuit?

Answer 17

Neolocal residence

Question 18

What is composite family?

Answer 18

is an aggregate of nuclear families linked by a common spouse, most often a husband

Question 19

What residence pattern goes with the composite family?

Answer 19

patrilocal residence

Question 20

What does the following constitute? :

- A polygynous household, consisting of one man and several wives and their respective children.

Answer 20

composite family

Question 21

What is patrilocality?

Answer 21

Refers to the custom when woman after marrying a man moves to live in his household

Question 22

What is the extended (consanguineal) family and patrilocal residence?

Answer 22

• consists of two or more lineally related kinfolk of the same sex and their spouses and offspring
• occupies a single household or homestead, and
• is under the authority of a household head

Question 23

What ties are most important with extended family and patrilocal residence?

Answer 23

ties of linearity (blood ties between generations) are more important than ties of marriage

Question 24

Extended family and patrilocal residence exists in what percent of the world’s societies?

Answer 24

50%

Question 25

What is patrilineal extended family organized around?

Answer 25

Man, his sons, and the son’s wives and children.

Question 26

What type of family is common in China and India?

Answer 26

patrilineal extended family

Question 27

What is a matrilineal family?

Answer 27

Organized around a woman, her daughters, and the daughter’s husbands and children

Question 28

What is a matrilineal family associated with?

Answer 28

Matrilocal residence

Question 29

What is matrilocal residence?

Answer 29

A man lives in the household of his wife’s family

Question 30

What residence is pattern is the Iroquois known for?

Answer 30

Matrilocal residence