Question 1

What is the name of the postmarital residence pattern in which the married couple is expected to establish its own home?

Accepted Answer

A)  neolocality 
B)  patrilocality 
C)  matrilocality 
D)  ambilocality 
E)  uxorilocality 
A)  neolocality 
B)  patrilocality 
C)  matrilocality 
D)  ambilocality 
E)  uxorilocality

Question 2

Which of the following kin types is NOT ego's lineal relative?

Accepted Answer

A)  M 
B)  B 
C)  MM 
D)  F 
E)  S 
A)  M 
B)  B 
C)  MM 
D)  F 
E)  S

Question 3

Traditionally, in some areas of the former Yugoslavia, several nuclear families were embedded in an extended family household called a zadruga. Among the Nayars in southern India, it was typical for people to live in matrilineal extended family compounds called tarawads. Descriptions of these two culturally specific cases highlight that

Accepted Answer

A)  children who grow up in stable kin groups are better off than those who don't. 
B)  the nuclear family is the only stable kin group arrangement. 
C)  nuclear families are extremely rare in terms of living arrangements. 
D)  extended family households are an adaptive strategy to extreme poverty. 
E)  there are many alternatives to the nuclear family. 
A)  children who grow up in stable kin groups are better off than those who don't. 
B)  the nuclear family is the only stable kin group arrangement. 
C)  nuclear families are extremely rare in terms of living arrangements. 
D)  extended family households are an adaptive strategy to extreme poverty. 
E)  there are many alternatives to the nuclear family.

Question 4

Which of the following statements about bifurcate merging kinship terminologies is NOT true?

Accepted Answer

A)  They generally are found in societies with unilineal descent. 
B)  They use the same term to describe F and FB and the same term for M and MZ. 
C)  They generally are found in societies with unilocal residence patterns. 
D)  They often are found in association with the kinship distinction between parallel and cross-cousins. 
E)  They use the same term to describe MB and FB. 
A)  They generally are found in societies with unilineal descent. 
B)  They use the same term to describe F and FB and the same term for M and MZ. 
C)  They generally are found in societies with unilocal residence patterns. 
D)  They often are found in association with the kinship distinction between parallel and cross-cousins. 
E)  They use the same term to describe MB and FB.

Question 5

The Bar' of Venezuela recognize multiple fathers, even though biologically there can be only one actual genitor. This example shows

Accepted Answer

A)  that women have a better understanding of biological processes than do men. 
B)  that like race and gender, kinship is culturally constructed. 
C)  cultures' explanations for biological processes vary because the access and quality of educational systems vary as well. 
D)  how, as in the United States, having more than one father is detrimental to a child's development and adjustment in society. 
E)  that multiple (partible) paternity is a common and beneficial biological fact. 
A)  that women have a better understanding of biological processes than do men. 
B)  that like race and gender, kinship is culturally constructed. 
C)  cultures' explanations for biological processes vary because the access and quality of educational systems vary as well. 
D)  how, as in the United States, having more than one father is detrimental to a child's development and adjustment in society. 
E)  that multiple (partible) paternity is a common and beneficial biological fact.

Question 6

What is the name of the family in which a child is raised?

Accepted Answer

A)  family of procreation 
B)  family of orientation 
C)  family of nucleation 
D)  genealogical family 
E)  family of kin 
A)  family of procreation 
B)  family of orientation 
C)  family of nucleation 
D)  genealogical family 
E)  family of kin

Question 7

A bifurcate merging kinship terminology distinguishes between collateral and lineal relatives.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

In a lineal system of kinship terminology, which of the following pairs would be called by the same term?

Accepted Answer

A)  M and FZ 
B)  M and MZ 
C)  FB and MB 
D)  FB and FZ 
E)  F and FB 
A)  M and FZ 
B)  M and MZ 
C)  FB and MB 
D)  FB and FZ 
E)  F and FB

Question 9

This chapter offers a brief overview of kinship-related demographic changes in the United States and Canada. How have kinship arrangements changed? How do these changes relate to other cultural changes? Do you find any of the current trends surprising? If so, why?

Accepted Answer

Kinship arrangements in the United State

Question 10

Discuss ways in which kinship and descent help human populations adapt to their environments.

Accepted Answer

Kinship and descent play a crucial role

Question 11

What term refers to the kind of descent in which people choose the descent group that they join?

Accepted Answer

A)  neolineal 
B)  patrilineal 
C)  ambilineal 
D)  matrilineal 
E)  bilineal 
A)  neolineal 
B)  patrilineal 
C)  ambilineal 
D)  matrilineal 
E)  bilineal

Question 12

Anthropologists distinguish between kin terms and genealogical kin types. What is the difference?

Accepted Answer

A)  Kin terms refers to the actual genealogical relationship; genealogical kin types are the words used for different relatives in a particular culture. 
B)  The difference is only a methodological one-in practice, they are the same thing. 
C)  Kin terms are the words used for different relatives in a particular language, but genealogical kin types refers to the actual genealogical relationship. 
D)  Kin terms are the words used for socially constructed relationships, whereas genealogical kin types refers to relatives. 
E)  Kin terms are the terms used for different relatives from the ego's perspective, whereas genealogical kin types refers to objective relatives from no perspective in particular. 
A)  Kin terms refers to the actual genealogical relationship; genealogical kin types are the words used for different relatives in a particular culture. 
B)  The difference is only a methodological one-in practice, they are the same thing. 
C)  Kin terms are the words used for different relatives in a particular language, but genealogical kin types refers to the actual genealogical relationship. 
D)  Kin terms are the words used for socially constructed relationships, whereas genealogical kin types refers to relatives. 
E)  Kin terms are the terms used for different relatives from the ego's perspective, whereas genealogical kin types refers to objective relatives from no perspective in particular.

Question 13

A unilineal descent group whose members demonstrate their common descent from an apical ancestor is a(n)

Accepted Answer

A)  clan. 
B)  lineage. 
C)  extended family. 
D)  family of procreation. 
E)  family of orientation. 
A)  clan. 
B)  lineage. 
C)  extended family. 
D)  family of procreation. 
E)  family of orientation.

Question 14

With unilineal descent, one's lineage affiliation is ascribed at birth, but with ambilineal descent, lineage affiliation is more fluid, because each member chooses his or her own descent group.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

What does ego stand for in a depiction of a kinship system?

Accepted Answer

A)  the sense of distinct individuality that is present in any society 
B)  the emotional attachment felt by the people who use the system 
C)  the point of reference used to determine which kin terms go where 
D)  the boundary between one's kin group and outsiders 
E)  a gender-free way of reckoning kinship 
A)  the sense of distinct individuality that is present in any society 
B)  the emotional attachment felt by the people who use the system 
C)  the point of reference used to determine which kin terms go where 
D)  the boundary between one's kin group and outsiders 
E)  a gender-free way of reckoning kinship

Question 16

A descent group consists only of a married couple and their children.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

What are the two basic social units of foraging societies?

Accepted Answer

A)  the band and the clan 
B)  the lineage and the nuclear family 
C)  the extended family and the clan 
D)  the nuclear family and the band 
E)  the band and the extended family 
A)  the band and the clan 
B)  the lineage and the nuclear family 
C)  the extended family and the clan 
D)  the nuclear family and the band 
E)  the band and the extended family

Question 18

Neolocal postmarital residence rules require newly married couples to establish their own residence.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

In the United States, the ratio of marriages to divorces doubled between 1960 and 1980, and the divorce rate reached 55% in 2010.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Although nuclear families are found in many societies around the world, this phenomenon is not a cultural universal.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 19: Families, Kinship, and Descent

What is the name of the postmarital residence pattern in which the married couple is expected to establish its own home?

Which of the following kin types is NOT ego's lineal relative?

Which of the following statements about bifurcate merging kinship terminologies is NOT true?

The Bar' of Venezuela recognize multiple fathers, even though biologically there can be only one actual genitor. This example shows

What is the name of the family in which a child is raised?

A bifurcate merging kinship terminology distinguishes between collateral and lineal relatives.

In a lineal system of kinship terminology, which of the following pairs would be called by the same term?

This chapter offers a brief overview of kinship-related demographic changes in the United States and Canada. How have kinship arrangements changed? How do these changes relate to other cultural changes? Do you find any of the current trends surprising? If so, why?

Discuss ways in which kinship and descent help human populations adapt to their environments.

What term refers to the kind of descent in which people choose the descent group that they join?

Anthropologists distinguish between kin terms and genealogical kin types. What is the difference?

A unilineal descent group whose members demonstrate their common descent from an apical ancestor is a(n)

With unilineal descent, one's lineage affiliation is ascribed at birth, but with ambilineal descent, lineage affiliation is more fluid, because each member chooses his or her own descent group.

What does ego stand for in a depiction of a kinship system?

A descent group consists only of a married couple and their children.

What are the two basic social units of foraging societies?

Neolocal postmarital residence rules require newly married couples to establish their own residence.

In the United States, the ratio of marriages to divorces doubled between 1960 and 1980, and the divorce rate reached 55% in 2010.

Although nuclear families are found in many societies around the world, this phenomenon is not a cultural universal.

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