Exam 21: Marriage and the Family

The fact that people who are brought up together on the same kibbutzim are uninterested in each other as marriage partners, even when the marriages are favored by their parents, supports which theory of the incest taboo?

Bride __________ is a gift of money or goods from the groom or his kin to the bride's kin.

Why do men tend to be more violent than women in situations of jealousy?

Where polyandry is practiced, it is most often explained by

What percentage of the societies known to anthropologists includes one or more explicit economic transactions that take place before or after a marriage?

A(n) __________ is a custom whereby a man is obliged to marry his brother's widow.

In many Western countries, there has been a dramatic increase recently in the percentage of one-parent families. What percent of these one-parent families is female-headed?

Marriage includes two major factors. These are

In many societies arranged marriages were the norm, but that's becoming less common. Why is that?

Distinguish between sororal polygyny and nonsororal polygyny.

The incest taboo which prohibits sexual intercourse or marriage between categories of kin is universal. Why is this?

Trobriand couples who are going to marry advertise this by doing all of the following except

Polygyny is least likely in societies

Describe the family disruption theory by Malinowski, and Freud's psychoanalytic theory. What are the flaws in both arguments?

Which of the following is not a stated explanation for marriage?

In many societies, marriage involves economic considerations. Why is this?

Of the following forms of marriage, the rarest is

A nuclear family might include all of the following except

All societies have some way of marking the onset of marriage. Why do these vary from culture to culture?

Which theory hypothesizes that the taboo for incest is based on sibling association?