Patrilineal descent groups...
are the most common
The post-marital residence pattern characterized by the couple living with or near the parents of the bride is called
matrilocal
Polyandry
a woman with many husbands
Bride service is practiced...
to compensate a bride;s family in a society where material goods are not accumulated
societies in which parents can choose their children's kinship affiliation are classified as
ambilineal descent
In the US, the typical marital residence pattern is
neolocal
Which of the following is not a reason kinship systems are important to every society?
They allow outsiders to identify individuals within a cultural and social setting.
Cross-culturally, most kinship systems
provide links between successive generations and ties across a single generation
The prohibition against sexual relations with certain categories of kin is called
the incest taboo
Individuals, except for siblings, have a unique kindred in a
bilateral descent system
Nuclear families are found in societies
in which there is a great amount of geographic mobility
Bridewealth
legitimizes marriages and transfers rights over to the children to the father's family
A kinship diagram of a married couple, their children, and their children's children includes
3 generations, therefore three rows of kinship figures
EGO refers to the
person from whose POV we are tracing the relationship
Sororate
widower marrying the sister of the dead wife
Levirate
widow marrying the brother of the dead husband
All of the following are criteria used to distinguish between different kin categories EXCEPT
level of formal education
Incest avoidance can have positive social advantages by forcing people to marry outside of the immediate family, thereby...
creating relationships with people with whom they are likely to cooperate
Unilineal descent groups...
endure over time and clearly define who is a member and who is not
Cross cousins are defined as the children of..
your mother's brother, or father's sister
In all human societies, kinship is tied to the biological relationships created by human reproduction. However...
how different societies sort and categorize kinship relationships is as much a matter of culture as it is biology
Marrying outside the group
exogamy
The rules that a culture uses to establish affiliations with one's parents is called
descent
Which statement about the Chinese patrilineal family is false?
women give total allegiance to their husband's family
In a matrilineal society, a boy's father figure is his
mother's brother
Neolocal residence
living in a place of one's own
In matrilineal descent systems
property and political office pass from one man to another, but through a woman
In Western societies, mate selectionj is determined by
jointly the prospective bride and groom
Arranged marriages are found most often in what type of society?
societies which there is an elaborate social heirarchy
Which form of marriage compensation is a transfer of goods from the bride;s family to the groom's family?
dowry
Castes in India provide a good example of
caste endogamy
The term descent is used by anthropologists to refer to
the rules a culture uses to establish affiliations with one's parents
An aunt or uncle is an example of
fictive kin
A kinship diagram of a son, father, gpa, and great gpa would include
lineal relatives
Traditional Chinese families are good examples of
patrilineal kinship
unilineal descent groups
endure over time and clearly define who is and who is not a member
the rules that a culture uses to est. affiliation with one's parents is called
descent
Zuni (New Mexico)
Zuni men are divided by serving the economic interests of their wives and the ceremonial needs of their sisters and mothers
The nuclear family is based on _________ ties and the extended family is based on _______ toes.
marital; blood.
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