First Test

Question 1

Define Family

Answer 1

Any combination of two or more persons who are bound together over time by ties of mutual consent, birth, and/or adoption/placement and who together, assume responsibilities for a variety of functions (to be identified later)

Question 2

Define Functions

Answer 2

No society can survive unless these are carried out, individuals are motivated to carry them out due to their membership in a smaller group

Question 3

Define Affective Nurturance

Answer 3

The meeting of the emotional needs of individuals

Question 4

Define Cultural Anthropologists

Answer 4

People who study isolated human families and develop theories

Question 5

Define Hordes

Answer 5

First family groupings, such as our primate relatives

Question 6

Define Consanguinity

Answer 6

When a person is related to another person by blood

Question 7

Define Conjugal Relationships

Answer 7

A legitimate sexual relation or marriage

Question 8

Define Arranged Marriage

Answer 8

When two families negotiate an agreement about the marriage of their children to each other

Question 9

Define Matriarchy

Answer 9

When women are the authority and decision makers

Question 10

Define Patriarchy

Answer 10

When men are the authority and decision makers

Question 11

Define Monogamy

Answer 11

Having one partner

Question 12

Define Polygamy

Answer 12

Person with several spouses

Question 13

Define Polygyny

Answer 13

Man with several wives

Question 14

Define Polyandry

Answer 14

Woman with several husbands

Question 15

Define Cottage Industry

Answer 15

In pre-industrial societies, a father worked at a business in the family home, wife and children help

Question 16

Define Industrial Nuclear Family

Answer 16

Husband worked to provide for his wife and kids,mother works at home

Question 17

Define Consumer Family

Answer 17

Husband is the provider, wife is the homemaker

Question 18

Define Transitional Family

Answer 18

Mother temporarily leaves the workforce to look after her young children

Question 19

Define Dual Income Family

Answer 19

Both spouses work full-time

Question 20

Define Nuclear Family

Answer 20

Husband + wife + offspring

Question 21

Define Extended Family

Answer 21

Parents, children, aunts, uncles, grandparents

Question 22

Define Modified Extended Family

Answer 22

Relatives that don’t share a household but live in the same neighborhood, visit regularly, etc

Question 23

Define Blended Families

Answer 23

Second marriage combines two households

Question 24

Define Childless Family

Answer 24

Husband/wife, no offspring

Question 25

Define Adopted Family

Answer 25

Parents + adopted child

Question 26

Define Cohabiting Couples

Answer 26

Family arrangement where they live together but didn’t get married

Question 27

Define Communal Family

Answer 27

A group of families or childless couples who reside in common dwellings