Guaranteed Midterm 1 Questions

Question 1

ghost marriages

Answer 1

occurs when a man dies without a wife or children, a close kinsman (family member) marries a women in the dead mans name to have his children.

Can happen with older women marrying younger women to take the role of the father

The biological “father” is never socially recognized

Question 2

genitor

Answer 2

biological father

Question 3

genetrix

Answer 3

biological mother

Question 4

pater

Answer 4

“socially” recognized father (can also be a women)

Question 5

mater

Answer 5

“socially” recognized mother

Question 6

viviolocal

Answer 6

married couple and children live in the the kin of the father

Question 7

matriolocal

Answer 7

married couple and children live in the kin of the mother

Question 8

neolocal

Answer 8

couple and children lives independently of either family (in separate household)

Question 9

matrililial

Answer 9

a type of fluid household where decent can be traced through female line

Question 10

patrilinial

Answer 10

a type of fluid household where decent can be traced through male line

Question 11

polygamy

Answer 11

marriage to more than 1 spouse at a time

Question 12

polygyny

Answer 12

one man with several wives
(most common form of polygamy)

Question 13

polyandry

Answer 13

one women with several husbands

Question 14

What definition of families was used for a long time?

Answer 14

Murdocks

**his definition excludes many families

Question 15

What were the 3 relationships in a family according to Murdock

Answer 15

• Co-residence
• Economic cooperation
• Reproduction

Question 16

What are the ways colonization influenced societies today?

Answer 16

• Interracial families
• Gender roles + transactional nature of relationships
• Heteronormativity
• Individualism

Question 17

What is the most important aspect of the 2nd demographic transition?

Answer 17

It was the first time where Canada ever dropped below replacement levels! (likely will never be above replacement levels again)

Question 18

What were the reasons for dropping below replacement levels?

Answer 18

Homosexuality decriminalized

women education/paid work

access to contraception

late marriage

illegal abortion

sexual abstinence

Question 19

What are the 2 big changes in the 1st demographic transition?

Answer 19

• Mortality decreased due to technology and industrialization
• Fertility decreased

Question 20

Why can it be challenging for older adults to date?

Answer 20

• Smaller social networks
• retirement
• relocation
• death of loved ones.
• Women live longer and face a smaller eligible pool of dates (especially challenging for older women)
• seniors less likely to date outside their culture, race and religion but are willing to travel long distances to meet potential mates

Question 21

Why do we have more single people in society than ever before?

Answer 21

Because we are delaying marriage → never before in history have we had the opportunity to meet so many people (PARADOX OF CHOICE → too many choices)

Question 22

What is the order of disabilities (from least to most stigmatized)

Answer 22

PSYCHICAL (least stigmatized)

COGNITIVE

INTELLECTUAL

PSYCHIATRIC (most stigmatized)

Question 23

What is the marriage squeeze?

Answer 23

• The gender imbalance reflected in the ratio of available unmarried women and men
• Members of one gender tend to be “squeezed” out of the marriage market
• Older women and women with higher education are squeezed (less acknowledged) in the labour market

Question 24

What is the mating gradient?

Answer 24

• The tendency for women to marry men of higher status
• Men tend to marry women slightly below them in age, education, and so on.