Family Terms Connected to the Family

Question 1

Kinship

Answer 1

Relationships between relatives. Term usually used in societies that had few other social, political, legal or religious institutions.

Question 2

Consanguine Family

Answer 2

Family based on blood relationship. 9Very important with roaming tribes.)

Question 2

Patrilineal

Answer 2

Decent is determiend through the male members of the family

Question 3

Unilineal

Answer 3

When descent is traced through only ONE line (Eg: Maitrilineal or Paitrilineal)

Question 4

Bilineal

Answer 4

Decent traced through either the male or female line

Question 4

Matrilineal:

Answer 4

Decent is determined through the female members of the family

Question 5

Bilateral

Answer 5

Decent traced through both male and female

Question 6

Patrilineal (1.8)

Answer 6

Inheritance and succession generally passed from father to son

Question 7

Matrilineal (1.8)

Answer 7

Some wealth and pejoratives (societal responsibility) held by women are passed to daughters BUT inheritance of property and status held by men passes from a man to his sisters son.

Question 7

Primogeniture: (1.8)

Answer 7

The right and principle under which the eldest son of a family succeeds to the fathers real estate, in preference to, and in absolute exclusion of the younger sons and daughters

(Eldest inherits everything, primary heir)

Question 8

Ultimogeniture: (1.8)

Answer 8

The custom or practice by which the youngest child succeeds to an inheritance, as borough-England.

(Youngest inherits everything, primary heir)