Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics

Question 1

It is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of most human in most societies.

Answer 1

Kinship

Question 2

According to an anthropologist “ the study of kinship is the study of what men does with these basic facts of life - mating, gestation, parenthood, socialization, siblingship etc.”

Answer 2

Robin Fox

Question 3

Is the human kinship relations through marriage.

Answer 3

Affinity

Question 4

Is the relationships that arise in one’s group of origin.

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Descent

Question 5

A rule of descent that affiliates and individual through the descent of one gender only, that is either through males or through females.

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Unilineal

Question 6

A type of unilineal where people join the mother’s group automatically at birth and stay members throughout life.

Answer 6

Matrilineal Descent

Question 7

A type of unilineal where people join the father’s group automatically at birth and stay members throughout life.

Answer 7

Patrilineal Descent

Question 8

A type of unilineal where the children can opt to claim lineage on either their father or their, mother’s family group.

Answer 8

Ambilineal

Question 9

A rule of descent were both paternal and maternal ancestors are considered part of one’s family.

Answer 9

Bilateral

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Kinship by MARRIAGE

Question 11

A type of marriage that refers to the norm which dictates that one should marry within one’s group/clan.

Answer 11

Endogamy

Question 12

A type of marriage that prescribes that one from marry outside one’s clan or ethnic.

Answer 12

Exogamy

Question 13

Is the practice of having only one spouse at one time or for an entire life span.

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Monogamy

Question 14

Is the practice of multiple marriage. It is a marriage pattern in which an individual is married to more than one person at a time.

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Polygamy

Question 15

A type of polygamy where it is the practice of one man having more than one wife or sexual partner at a time. It is the most common form of polygamy.

Answer 15

Polygyny

Question 16

A type of polygamy where it is the less common form of polygamy. It involves one woman having multiple husbands.

Answer 16

Polyandry

Question 17

A system which is customary for the wife to live with (or near) her husbands blood relatives (or family or orientation).

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Patrilocal Residence

Question 18

a system where it is customary for the husband to live with pretty white blood relatives (or her family of orientation) , the has been can feel disconnected and can be labeled as an outsider.

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Matrilocal Residence

Question 19

The couple have the freedom an option to live separately and independent to their prospective families. This is more common and in modern western societies.

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Neolocal Residence

Question 20

Give the couple the choice of staying either with the groom’s or the bride’s side/parents due to wealth, status, wishes of the parents, certain personal preferences).

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Bilocal Residence

Question 21

It is a kinship in the form of godparenthood (compadrazgo).

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Kinship by Ritual

Question 22

Is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity (by recognizes birth), affinity (by marriage), or co-residence, and/or shared consumption.

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Family

Question 23

Is the most basic family form and is made up of a married couple and their biological or adoptive children. It is a family pattern we’re married couple established and independent household.

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Nuclear Family

Question 24

Family that includes the other members of the kinship group such as uncle, grandparents and cousins.

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Extended Family

Question 25

Describes families with mixed parents; one or both parents remarried, bringing children of the former family into the new family.

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Reconstituted Family

Question 26

Married persons living apart, ether informally by one leaving the home or agreeing to “separate” while sharing a residence without intimate relations.

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Separated Family

Question 27

Families that live some or most of the time separated from each other, yet hold together and create something that can be seen as a feeling of collective welfare and unity, namely, ‘familyhood’, even across national borders.

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Transnational Family

Question 28

Authority is vested on the eldest male in the family often the father.

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Patriarchal

Question 29

Authority is vested in the mother or the mother’s kin.

Answer 29

Matriarchal

Question 30

Both the husband and wife exercise a more or less equal amount or degree of authority.

Answer 30

Egalitarian

Question 31

This type of authority is usually found in places where the father commutes and it out on the greater part of the day, or with prolonged absence.

Answer 31

Matricentric

Question 32

Is the repeated election and reelection of close relatives with the same surname offices in the local and national governments.

Answer 32

Political Dynasty

Question 33

An international relations, a formal agreement between two or more states for mutual support in case of war.

Answer 33

Alliance