Week 6: Kinship, Marriage, and Family

Question 1

Kinship in relation to mode of production and political structure

Answer 1

• Kinship in relation to mode of production and political structure
• Tribes, horticultural, some pastoral societies, ranked, kinship and marriage, extended family
• Chieftainships, food-producing, stratified, centralized, kinship and marriage, slaves through warfare, extended family
• States, food producing and industrial, stratified, centralized, citizenship, nuclear or extended family
• Nuclear family is what is familiar to most of us

Question 2

Social Institution

Answer 2

• Kinship
• Descent Groups
• Marriage
• Family
• Community

Question 3

Marriage and Family

Answer 3

• Marriage and family help organize social roles, rights, and responsibilities
• Many forms of marriage have existed throughout time and across cultures
• Many diff types of marriage, some dont have same etc
• Ghost marriage, and your not having sex with them

Question 4

Marriage

Answer 4

• Sexual relations are sanctioned
• Sexual division of labor exists, but resources will be shared
• Childcare and inheritance are managed

Question 5

Monogamy

Answer 5

Single partner

Question 6

Polygamy

Answer 6

Multiple partners

Question 7

Polgyny

Answer 7

Multiple wives

Question 8

Polyandry

Answer 8

Multiple husbands

Question 9

Filiation

Answer 9

legitimate filiation or parentage flowed from the marriage between the mother of a child and her husband

Question 10

Exogamy

Answer 10

Marriage partners must come from different groups

Question 11

Endogamy

Answer 11

Marriage partners must come from the same group

Question 12

Incest taboo

Answer 12

Universal, certain family members, parents and children taboo, in some cultures cousins are taboo

Question 13

Bride price

Answer 13

Gifts that a groom’s family is required to give to the bride’s family

Question 14

Dowry

Answer 14

Gifts that a bride’s family are required to give to the groom’s family or to the new couple

Question 15

Arranged marriage

Answer 15

(ideally) a mutually beneficial arrangement between two families of similar backgrounds

Question 16

Arranged

Answer 16

A marriage planned and agreed by the families or guardians of the couple concerned rather than by the couple themselves

Question 17

Levirate and Sororate

Answer 17

If husband dies, she marries the brother, if wife dies brother marries the sister

Question 18

Polygamy

Answer 18

A marriage in which one spouse (man or woman) has several other spouses

Question 19

Ghost Marriage

Answer 19

A practice similar to the levirate, whereby a woman marries a man in the name of his deceased brother

Question 20

Patrilocal

Answer 20

husband’s home or community

Question 21

Matrilocal

Answer 21

wife’s home or community

Question 22

Avunculocal

Answer 22

husband’s maternal uncle, husband’s mother’s brother

Question 23

Ambilocal

Answer 23

either or, the couple chooses

Question 24

Neolocal

Answer 24

set up a new, independent household

Question 25

Household

Answer 25

Domestic unit of residence

Question 26

Nuclear family

Answer 26

Neolocal residence

Question 27

Extended (joint) family

Answer 27

- Matrillocal or patrilocal residence - Grandparents, could include like siblings and their spouses, 2-3 generations

Question 28

Kinship

Answer 28

- Kinship refers to family relations - Organizes roles and responsibilities within the family - Fictive kinship brings people together in chosen families

Question 29

Family Structure

Answer 29

- Nuclear - Extended - Blended

Question 30

Unilineal

Answer 30

- Patrilineal - Matrilineal

Question 31

Multilineal

Answer 31

- Double descent - Ambilineal - Bilateral

Question 32

Double descent Ambilineal Bilateral

Answer 32

A system of descent in which individuals receive some rights and obligations from the father’s side of the family and others from the mother’s side

Question 33

Ambilineal descent

Answer 33

A form of descent in which a person chooses to affiliate with a kin group through either the male or the female line

Question 34

Bilateral descent

Answer 34

A type of kinship system in which individuals emphasize both their mother’s kin and their father’s kin relatively equally

Question 35

Types of Community

Answer 35

- Community of location - Community of identity - Community of purpose - Community of circumstance