SOC Chapter 12: Marriage And Family

Question 1

Polygamy

Answer 1

A form of marriage in which men have more than one wife

Question 2

Polyandry

Answer 2

A form of marriage in which women have more than one husband

Question 3

Family

Answer 3

Two or more people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage or adoption

Question 4

Household

Answer 4

People who occupy the same housing unit

Question 5

Nuclear family

Answer 5

A family consisting of a husband, wife and child(ren)

Question 6

Extended family

Answer 6

A family in which relatives such as the “older generation” or unmarried aunts and uncle live with the parents and their children

Question 7

Family of orientation

Answer 7

The family in which a person grows up

Question 8

Family of procreation

Answer 8

The family formed when a couple’s first child is born

Question 9

Marriage

Answer 9

A group’s approved mating arrangements, usually marked by a ritual of some sort

Question 10

Endogamy

Answer 10

The practice of marrying within one’s own group

Question 11

Exogamy

Answer 11

The practice of marrying outside of one’s group

Question 12

Incest taboo

Answer 12

The rule that prohibits sex and marriage among designated relatives

Question 13

System of descent

Answer 13

How kinship is traced over the generations

Question 14

Bilineal system

Answer 14

(Of descent) a system of reckoning descent that counts both the mother’s side

Question 15

Martrilineal system

Answer 15

(Of descent) a system of reckoning descent that counts only he mothers side

Question 16

Patriarchy

Answer 16

Men as a group dominating women as a group, authority is vested in males

Question 17

Matriarchy

Answer 17

A society in which women as a group dominate men as a group, authority is vested in females

Question 18

Egalitarian

Answer 18

Authority more or less equally divided between people or groups (in heterosexual marriage, for example, between husband and wife)

Question 19

Romantic love

Answer 19

Feelings of erotic attraction accompanied by a idealization of the other

Question 20

Homogamy

Answer 20

The tendency of people with similar characteristics to marry on another

Question 21

Machismo

Answer 21

An emphasis on male strength and dominance

Question 22

Blended family

Answer 22

A family whose members were once par of other families

Question 23

Cohabitation

Answer 23

Unmarried couples living together in a sexual relationship

Question 24

Incest

Answer 24

Sexual relations between specified relatives, such as brother and sisters or parents and children