Family - Week 15

Question 1

family

Answer 1

• Blood – shared genetic heritage
• Law – social recognition and affirmation of the bond (e.g., birth certificates)

Question 2

Kinship

Answer 2

• state of being related to others, culturally learned, not fully determined by biological ties
• aunts, cousins, friends, teammates

Question 3

BILATERAL

Answer 3

• both sides of the family are equally important

Question 4

PATRILINEAL

Answer 4

• the father’s relatives are important in terms of property, inheritance, and emotional ties’

Question 5

MATRILINEAL

Answer 5

• the mother’s relatives are more significant than the father’s

Question 6

Monogamy: mariage types

Answer 6

• a form of marriage in which two people are married only to each other

Question 7

Serial Monogamy: marriage types

Answer 7

• when a person has several spouses in their lifetime, but only one spouse at a time

Question 8

Polygamy: marriage types

Answer 8

• when an individual has several husbands or wives simultaneously

Question 9

Polygyny - marriage types

Answer 9

• marriage of a man to more than one wife

Question 10

Polyandry: marriage types

Answer 10

• marriage of a woman to more than one husband

Question 11

Polyamory: marriage types

Answer 11

• multiple partners, but not marriage

Question 12

Functionalist on family

Answer 12

• Focus on what families do FOR society and their members
• what are the purposes of families and what are their functions?

Question 13

Conflict theorists on family

Answer 13

• focus on what families do TO societies
• societies have been patriarchal, dominated by men

Question 14

Symbolic interactionists on family

Answer 14

• Interested in the ways relationships form
• interactions among people
• ex) courtship and the shifting interactions with the internet