Kinship And Family

Question 0

Consanguinity

Answer 0

Kinship relationships based on birth

Question 1

Kinship

Answer 1

The complex system of culturally defined social relationships based on marriage and birth

Question 2

Affinity

Answer 2

Kinship relationships based on marriage

Question 3

Descent

Answer 3

A kinship rule that ties people together on the basis of reputed common ancestry

Question 4

Patrilineal descent

Answer 4

Descent rule linking consanguine relatives through males only

Question 5

Matrilineal descent

Answer 5

Descent rule linking relatives together through females only

Question 6

Bilateral descent

Answer 6

Descent rules linking relatives through both males and females

Question 7

Descent groups

Answer 7

Groups based on descent rule

Question 8

Lineage

Answer 8

A localized group that is based on a unilineal descent rule and which usually has some corporate power

Question 9

Clan

Answer 9

Unilineal descent group composed of lineages whose members believe they are all descended from a common ancestor. Cannot always trace relationship to everyone in group

Question 10

Phratries

Answer 10

Large unilineal kinship groups made up of clans

Question 11

Ramages

Answer 11

Cognatic(bilateral) kin groups based on bilateral descent. Resemble lineages in size and function but have more recruiting flexibility

Question 12

Family

Answer 12

A residential kin group made up of at least one couple and their children

Question 13

Nuclear families

Answer 13

Consist of one couple and their children

Question 14

Extended families

Answer 14

Made up of two or more couples and their children

Question 15

Single parent families

Answer 15

Residential groups that include children but are headed by only one parent or other relative. Many are women headed families

Question 16

Marriage

Answer 16

A socially approved union of two people that confers sexual rights and legitimizes children

Question 17

Exogamy

Answer 17

Marriage outside a specific group

Question 18

Endogamy

Answer 18

Marriage within a specific group

Question 19

Monogamy

Answer 19

Marriage rule that permits and individual to marry only one other person at a time

Question 20

Polygamy

Answer 20

A form of marriage in which one person can be married to more than one person simultaneously

Question 21

Polygyny

Answer 21

Marriage of one man to more than one woman

Question 22

Polyandry

Answer 22

Marriage of one woman to more than one man