Sociology Test 3a

Question 1

family

Answer 1

a social institution in all societies that unites people in cooperative groups to care for on another, including children

Question 2

kinship

Answer 2

social bond based on common ancestry, marriage or adoption

Question 3

marriage

Answer 3

legal relationship, usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity and childbearing

Question 4

extended family

Answer 4

family consisting of parents and children as well as other kin

Question 5

nuclear family

Answer 5

family composed of one or two parents and their children

Question 6

endogamy patterns

Answer 6

marriage between people of same social category

Question 7

exogamy

Answer 7

marriage between people of different social categories; links communities and encourages spread of culture

Question 8

monogamy

Answer 8

marriage that unites two partners

Question 9

polygyny

Answer 9

marriage that unites one man and two or more women

Question 10

polyandry

Answer 10

marriage that unites one woman and two or more men

Question 11

patrilocality

Answer 11

residential pattern in which a married couple lives with or hear the husbands family

Question 12

matrilocality

Answer 12

residential pattern in which a married couple lives with or near the wifes family

Question 13

neolocality

Answer 13

residential pattern in which a married couple lives apart from both sets of parents

Question 14

descent

Answer 14

system by which members of a society trace kinship over generations

Question 15

patrilineal descent

Answer 15

system tracing kinship through men; children related only through their fathers

Question 16

matrilineal descent

Answer 16

system tracing kinship through women

Question 17

bilateral descent

Answer 17

system tracing kinship through both men and women

Question 18

structural functional approach to family

Answer 18

family is back bone of society
socialize
regulate sexual activity
social placement
material and emotional security

Question 19

social conflict approach to family

Answer 19

considers family central to our way of life, how family perpetuates social inequality

Question 20

symbolic interaction approach to family

Answer 20

family members share activities over time, they identify with each other and build emotional bonds

Question 21

social exchange approach to family

Answer 21

courtship and marriage are forms of negotiation

Question 22

stages of family

Answer 22

courtship
settling
child rearing
family in later life

Question 23

alternative family forms

Answer 23

single parent
cohabitation
gay and lesbian couple
singlehood

Question 24

families of affinity

Answer 24

people who think of themselves as a family and wish others to do the same

Question 25

what is the divorce rate?

Answer 25

42%

Question 26

how many women die per year from familial violence

Answer 26

1100

Question 27

how many cases of child abuse a year? how many die? caused by whom?

Answer 27

3 million
700 die
caused by mother
neglect is most common type

Question 28

what percent of homicides of men and women are committed by a romantic partner?

Answer 28

35% of female homicides

3% of male homicides

Question 29

at what average age do men and women get married now?

Answer 29

women-27

men-28