Quiz Chapter 10 and Volsche/Gray 2016

Question 1

Which is the MOST appropriate term for when membership in a group or family is determined based upon relatedness “by blood?”

Answer 1

descent group

Question 2

T/F

For historical and religious reasons, Jewish women in Israel feel great pressure to reproduce the family and the nation.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

T/F

The most common form of marriage practiced in the United States today is affinal marriage.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

T/F
(Volsche/Gray 2016) The authors found that respondents were raising and teaching their dogs with similar strategies as women raising children in the same environment.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

The concept of creating a family of choice rather than a family of birth or upbringing is known as:

Answer 5

fictive kin

Question 6

Traditionally, Nuer men could be married to more than one woman. This practice is known as

Answer 6

polygyny

Question 7

What is NOT an example of an assisted reproductive technology?:

Answer 7

adoption

Question 8

T/F

When the groom’s family provides gifts of goods or money to the bride’s family, they are offering a dowry.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

In certain remote parts of Tibet, one woman will become married to all the brothers in a particular family. Which term best describes this practice?

Answer 9

Polyandry

Question 10

T/F

Nation-states consolidate political force and community by relating membership in the nation with kinship terms.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

T/F

In Southall, England, friends take to calling each other “cousin” to strengthen their social bonds.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

______ refers to marriage to someone outside the kinship group, while ______ refers to marriage to someone inside the kinship group.

Answer 12

Exogamy; endogamy

Question 13

Descent through the father’s side of the family is known as

Answer 13

patrilineal

Question 14

T/F

Monogamy refers to a form of marriage in which three or more individuals form a household.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

What kind of household would be considered a nuclear family?

Answer 15

a mother, a father, and their five children, ages one to seventeen

Question 16

Nearly all cultures have rules that forbid sexual relations with certain close relatives. These are known as:

Answer 16

incest taboos

Question 17

In some cultures, such as the Mosuo of China, descent is constructed through the mother’s side of the family. This is known as

Answer 17

matrilineal descent

Question 18

(Volsche/Gray 2016) Most respondents to the survey identified as their dog’s _________(39.5%) or __________(26.0%).

Answer 18

parent; guardian

Question 19

Members of the Nuer tribe trace genealogical connections over time via claimed relatedness to a founding ancestor despite a lack of documentation. This is known as membership in:

Answer 19

a clan

Question 20

Volsche and Gray consider the idea of fictive kinship through which rising practice?

Answer 20

parenting dogs