Question 1

In matrilineal societies

Accepted Answer

A) daughters become lifetime members of their mother's group, but sons belong to their father's group. 
B) sons become lifetime members of their mother's group, but daughters belong to their father's group. 
C) descent groups include only the children of the group's women. 
D) descent groups include only the children of the group's men. 
E) postmarriage residence tends to be patrilocal. 
A) daughters become lifetime members of their mother's group, but sons belong to their father's group. 
B) sons become lifetime members of their mother's group, but daughters belong to their father's group. 
C) descent groups include only the children of the group's women. 
D) descent groups include only the children of the group's men. 
E) postmarriage residence tends to be patrilocal.

Question 2

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) Levirate family 
E) Sororate family 
A) Family of procreation 
B) Family of orientation 
C) Family of nucleation 
D) Levirate family 
E) Sororate family

Question 3

In unilineal descent, one's ancestry is traced through either the male or the female line (not both).

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Your nuclear family includes you, your parents, and your grandparents.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Members of a clan claim (but cannot demonstrate) descent from a common apical ancestor.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Why does bridewealth stabilize marriages?

Accepted Answer

Bridewealth, also known as bride price o

Question 7

What term is used to refer to a nonhuman apical ancestor of a clan?

Accepted Answer

A) Tarawad 
B) Sororate 
C) Levirate 
D) Totem 
E) Pater 
A) Tarawad 
B) Sororate 
C) Levirate 
D) Totem 
E) Pater

Question 8

Divorce is more common in matrilineal/matrilocal societies than it is in patrilineal/patrilocal societies.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

In industrialized nations, extended families are more common among the lower class than among the upper class.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

What are some of the general patterns found in the family organization of foragers?

Accepted Answer

Foragers typically have a flexible famil

Question 12

Industrialization increases mobility, which has played a major role in the decline of extended families in the United States.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

What term is synonymous with bridewealth?

Accepted Answer

A) Dowry 
B) Sororate 
C) Tribute 
D) Bride bribe 
E) Progeny price 
A) Dowry 
B) Sororate 
C) Tribute 
D) Bride bribe 
E) Progeny price

Question 14

How does divorce vary cross-culturally? What factors affect the ease (or difficulty) and frequency of divorce?

Accepted Answer

Divorce varies cross-culturally in terms

Question 15

Rules of endogamy

Accepted Answer

A) prove that the incest taboo is not a cultural universal. 
B) encourage people to disregard social distinctions in choosing mates. 
C) tend to maintain social distinctions between groups. 
D) expand a population's gene pool. 
E) result in ever-widening kinship networks. 
A) prove that the incest taboo is not a cultural universal. 
B) encourage people to disregard social distinctions in choosing mates. 
C) tend to maintain social distinctions between groups. 
D) expand a population's gene pool. 
E) result in ever-widening kinship networks.

Question 16

What are the six things that Leach argued marriage can accomplish?

Accepted Answer

British social anthropologist Edmund Lea

In matrilineal societies

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

In unilineal descent, one's ancestry is traced through either the male or the female line (not both).

Your nuclear family includes you, your parents, and your grandparents.

Members of a clan claim (but cannot demonstrate) descent from a common apical ancestor.

Why does bridewealth stabilize marriages?

What term is used to refer to a nonhuman apical ancestor of a clan?

Divorce is more common in matrilineal/matrilocal societies than it is in patrilineal/patrilocal societies.

In industrialized nations, extended families are more common among the lower class than among the upper class.

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

What are some of the general patterns found in the family organization of foragers?

Industrialization increases mobility, which has played a major role in the decline of extended families in the United States.

What term is synonymous with bridewealth?

How does divorce vary cross-culturally? What factors affect the ease (or difficulty) and frequency of divorce?

Rules of endogamy

What are the six things that Leach argued marriage can accomplish?

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Exam 7: Families, Kinship, and Marriage

In matrilineal societies

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

In unilineal descent, one's ancestry is traced through either the male or the female line (not both).

Your nuclear family includes you, your parents, and your grandparents.

Members of a clan claim (but cannot demonstrate) descent from a common apical ancestor.

Why does bridewealth stabilize marriages?

What term is used to refer to a nonhuman apical ancestor of a clan?

Divorce is more common in matrilineal/matrilocal societies than it is in patrilineal/patrilocal societies.

In industrialized nations, extended families are more common among the lower class than among the upper class.

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

What are some of the general patterns found in the family organization of foragers?

Industrialization increases mobility, which has played a major role in the decline of extended families in the United States.

What term is synonymous with bridewealth?

How does divorce vary cross-culturally? What factors affect the ease (or difficulty) and frequency of divorce?

Rules of endogamy

What are the six things that Leach argued marriage can accomplish?

What Is Anthropology

Culture

Doing Anthropology

Language and Communication

Making a Living

Political Systems

Gender

Religion

Ethnicity and Race

Applying Anthropology

The World System and Colonialism

Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World

Filters