Question 1

In a bifurcate merging kinship terminology, what is merged?

Accepted Answer

A)  lineal relatives and collateral relatives 
B)  members of the family of orientation and those of the family of procreation 
C)  affinal relatives and collateral relatives 
D)  affinal relatives and lineal relatives 
E)  lineal relatives and offspring 
A)  lineal relatives and collateral relatives 
B)  members of the family of orientation and those of the family of procreation 
C)  affinal relatives and collateral relatives 
D)  affinal relatives and lineal relatives 
E)  lineal relatives and offspring

Question 2

After reaching an all-time low for the 20th century in the 1970s, the nuclear family is now making a rebound, accounting for a greater number of U.S. households each year.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

With patrilineal descent, someone takes his or her father's last name but recognizes descent through both parents.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Industrialization increases mobility, which plays a major role in the disappearance of extended families in the United States.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Contemporary North American adults usually define their families as consisting of their husbands or wives and their children. In contrast, when middle-class Brazilians talk about their families, they mean their parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and on, down to their children. They rarely mention the spouse. Which of the following is among the reasons for this stark cultural contrast?

Accepted Answer

A)  Brazilians readily incorporate strangers into their social worlds. 
B)  North Americans value independence over their family. 
C)  North Americans have more choices about where they can live, and they have chosen to live away from their relatives. 
D)  Brazilians live in a less mobile society and so stay in closer contact with their relatives, including members of their extended family, than do North Americans. 
E)  Brazilians have purely economic relationships with their spouses. 
A)  Brazilians readily incorporate strangers into their social worlds. 
B)  North Americans value independence over their family. 
C)  North Americans have more choices about where they can live, and they have chosen to live away from their relatives. 
D)  Brazilians live in a less mobile society and so stay in closer contact with their relatives, including members of their extended family, than do North Americans. 
E)  Brazilians have purely economic relationships with their spouses.

Question 6

What is the most common system of kinship classification used in the United States?

Accepted Answer

A)  bifurcate merging 
B)  lineal 
C)  bifurcate collateral 
D)  generational 
E)  patrilineal 
A)  bifurcate merging 
B)  lineal 
C)  bifurcate collateral 
D)  generational 
E)  patrilineal

Question 7

What kind of kinship is most common in the contemporary United States?

Accepted Answer

A)  matrilateral kinship 
B)  bilateral kinship 
C)  patrilateral kinship 
D)  collateral kinship 
E)  generational kinship 
A)  matrilateral kinship 
B)  bilateral kinship 
C)  patrilateral kinship 
D)  collateral kinship 
E)  generational kinship

Question 8

Like bifurcate merging kinship terminology, generational kinship terminology

Accepted Answer

A)  is common in North America. 
B)  makes sense only from the perspective of ego. 
C)  illustrates the complicated ways in which adults confuse their children about the realities of biology. 
D)  uses the same term for parents and their siblings, but lumping is more complete (there are only two terms for the parental generation). 
E)  uses the same term for parents and grandparents, so there is less lumping than in the bifurcate merging kinship system. 
A)  is common in North America. 
B)  makes sense only from the perspective of ego. 
C)  illustrates the complicated ways in which adults confuse their children about the realities of biology. 
D)  uses the same term for parents and their siblings, but lumping is more complete (there are only two terms for the parental generation). 
E)  uses the same term for parents and grandparents, so there is less lumping than in the bifurcate merging kinship system.

Question 9

Like race, kinship is a cultural construction, in that it exhibits considerable cultural diversity.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

According to genealogical kin types used by anthropologists to study kinship relations, what kind of relative is ego's mother's brother?

Accepted Answer

A)  lineal relative 
B)  affinal relative 
C)  collateral relative 
D)  nuclear family member 
E)  member of the P2 generation 
A)  lineal relative 
B)  affinal relative 
C)  collateral relative 
D)  nuclear family member 
E)  member of the P2 generation

Question 11

What does it mean that kinship, like race, is culturally constructed?

Accepted Answer

A)  The educational system is failing to educate people about real, biologically based human relatedness. 
B)  Like race, kinship is a social fiction, with no real social consequence. 
C)  It is a phenomenon separated from other real aspects of society, such as economics and politics. 
D)  Studies of kinship tell us little about people's actual experiences, only about what they think those experiences are like. 
E)  Some genealogical kin are considered to be relatives whereas others are not, and the rules underlying such considerations vary across cultures. 
A)  The educational system is failing to educate people about real, biologically based human relatedness. 
B)  Like race, kinship is a social fiction, with no real social consequence. 
C)  It is a phenomenon separated from other real aspects of society, such as economics and politics. 
D)  Studies of kinship tell us little about people's actual experiences, only about what they think those experiences are like. 
E)  Some genealogical kin are considered to be relatives whereas others are not, and the rules underlying such considerations vary across cultures.

Question 12

In what kind of kinship calculation are kin ties traced equally through males and females?

Accepted Answer

A)  bilineal 
B)  bifurcate merging 
C)  bifurcate collateral 
D)  bilateral 
E)  biluminous 
A)  bilineal 
B)  bifurcate merging 
C)  bifurcate collateral 
D)  bilateral 
E)  biluminous

Question 13

Recent census data reveal that more U.S. women are now living without a husband than with one.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

What postmarital residence rule is most often found in societies with lineal kinship terminologies?

Accepted Answer

A)  ambilocal 
B)  neolocal 
C)  patrilocal 
D)  matrilocal 
E)  bilocal 
A)  ambilocal 
B)  neolocal 
C)  patrilocal 
D)  matrilocal 
E)  bilocal

Question 15

The most common postmarital residence rule is matrilocality, in which the married couple moves in with the husband's family.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

U.S. kinship calculation is bilateral, traced equally through males and females; for example, father and mother.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Your family of procreation is the one into which you were born.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

In unilineal descent, one's ancestry is traced through only one line of descent.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Which of the following does NOT belong to ego's matrilineage?

Accepted Answer

A)  FM 
B)  B 
C)  ZS 
D)  MB 
E)  M 
A)  FM 
B)  B 
C)  ZS 
D)  MB 
E)  M

Question 20

Cite evidence confirming or denying the universality of the nuclear family. Give examples from different cultures. What other social units might assume the functions associated with nuclear families?

Accepted Answer

The universality of the nuclear family h

Exam 19: Families, Kinship, and Descent

In a bifurcate merging kinship terminology, what is merged?

After reaching an all-time low for the 20th century in the 1970s, the nuclear family is now making a rebound, accounting for a greater number of U.S. households each year.

With patrilineal descent, someone takes his or her father's last name but recognizes descent through both parents.

Industrialization increases mobility, which plays a major role in the disappearance of extended families in the United States.

What is the most common system of kinship classification used in the United States?

What kind of kinship is most common in the contemporary United States?

Like bifurcate merging kinship terminology, generational kinship terminology

Like race, kinship is a cultural construction, in that it exhibits considerable cultural diversity.

According to genealogical kin types used by anthropologists to study kinship relations, what kind of relative is ego's mother's brother?

What does it mean that kinship, like race, is culturally constructed?

In what kind of kinship calculation are kin ties traced equally through males and females?

Recent census data reveal that more U.S. women are now living without a husband than with one.

What postmarital residence rule is most often found in societies with lineal kinship terminologies?

The most common postmarital residence rule is matrilocality, in which the married couple moves in with the husband's family.

U.S. kinship calculation is bilateral, traced equally through males and females; for example, father and mother.

Your family of procreation is the one into which you were born.

In unilineal descent, one's ancestry is traced through only one line of descent.

Which of the following does NOT belong to ego's matrilineage?

Cite evidence confirming or denying the universality of the nuclear family. Give examples from different cultures. What other social units might assume the functions associated with nuclear families?

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