Module 6 (Family as a Social Institution)

Question 1

two or more people related by blood, marriage, and adoption

Answer 1

family

Question 2

social and economic unit that consists of one of more parents and their children

Answer 2

family

Question 3

factory that develops and produces human personalities

Answer 3

family

Question 4

institution that passes down the cultural traditions of a society by the next generation

Answer 4

family

Question 5

is a social group that shares common residence, has presence of economic cooperation, produce offspring, include adults of both sexes wherein at least two of whom uphold

Answer 5

family

Question 6

basic residential unit where economic, production, consumption, inheritance, child rearing and shelter are organized and carried out (Haviland et al, 2008)

Answer 6

household

Question 7

can have other members aside from the family

Answer 7

household

Question 8

socially or ritually recognized union or legal contract between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between them, between them and their children, and between them and their in-laws.

Answer 8

marriage

Question 9

a special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman entered into in accordance with law for the establishment of conjugal and family life

Answer 9

marriage

Question 10

the foundation of the family and an inviolable social institution

Answer 10

marriage

Question 11

four types of marriage patterns

Answer 11

endogamy, exogamy, monogamy, and polygamy

Question 12

compulsory marriage in their own village, community, ethnic, social, or religious group

Answer 12

endogamy

Question 13

marriage custom where an individual is required by social norms to marry outside their own group, community, or social classes

Answer 13

exogamy

Question 14

both married partners only have one spouse

Answer 14

monogamy

Question 15

one individual has multiple spouses

Answer 15

polygamy

Question 16

types of polygamy

Answer 16

polygyny and polyandry

Question 17

one man is married to more than one woman simultaneously

Answer 17

polygyny

Question 18

one woman is married to more than one man simultaneously

Answer 18

polyandry

Question 19

four types of postmarital residency patterns

Answer 19

patrilocal, matrilocal, bilocal, and neolocal

Question 20

married couple lives in the residence of his husband’s father

Answer 20

patrilocal

Question 21

man is expected to take residence in his wife’s mother area

Answer 21

matrilocal

Question 22

newlywed couple stay with the husband’s relatives and the kin alternately

Answer 22

bilocal

Question 23

requires both spouses to leave their households and create their own at times even in a different locality

Answer 23

neolocal

Question 24

different types of family set-ups

Answer 24

nuclear family, single-parent families, and stepfamilies/reconstituted families

Question 25

has parents + offspring and may include a step-parent, stepsiblings, and adopted children

Answer 25

nuclear family

Question 26

has 1 parent + 1 or more children and is a consequence of divorce or separation, births to unmarried mothers, death of spouse, desertion

Answer 26

single-parent families

Question 27

family units where one or both members have children from their previous relationship

Answer 27

stepfamilies/reconstituted families

Question 28

network of relatives within which an individual possesses certain mutual rights and obligations

Answer 28

kinship

Question 29

web of social relationships that humans form as part of a family

Answer 29

kinship

Question 30

kinship is defined by

Answer 30

consanguinity and affinity

Question 31

kinship through bloodline

Answer 31

consanguinity

Question 32

kinship formed out of marriage or ritual

Answer 32

affinity

Question 33

types of consanguineal kinship

Answer 33

unilineal descent and bilateral descent

Question 34

child is automatically assigned to either his mother or father’s group

Answer 34

unilineal descent

Question 35

children can be made members of all ancestor’s groups

Answer 35

bilateral descent

Question 36

under unilineal descent

Answer 36

patrilineal descent and matrilineal descent

Question 37

children are automatically made members of the father’s group

Answer 37

patrilineal descent

Question 38

children are automatically made members of the mother’s group

Answer 38

matrilineal descent

Question 39

types of affinial kinship

Answer 39

compadrazgo and padrinazgo

Question 40

ritual coparenthood due to ceremonies

Answer 40

compadrazgo

Question 41

spiritual parenthood due to ceremonies

Answer 41

padrinazgo