ch 10 – Flashcards

Understanding kinship systems is an important part of anthropology because

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

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

In North America, the relatively high incidence of expanded family households in the lower class is

Although the nuclear family remains a cultural ideal for many Americans, nuclear families accounted for just 23 percent of American households in 2005. In fact, other domestic arrangements outnumber the "traditional" American household four to one. All of the following are among the reasons for these trends except:

What are the two basic social units of foraging societies?

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

Anthropologists are interested in kinship calculation, which is

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

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

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

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

What makes up ego's nuclear family of orientation?

A lineal kinship terminology

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

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

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

in a bifurcate merging kinship terminology, what is merged?

In a bifurcate merging kinship system, which of the following would be called by the same term?

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

Like bifurcate merging kinship terminology, generational kinship terminology

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

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

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

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

The higher proportion of expanded family households among poorer Americans has been explained as an adaptation to poverty

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

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

Comparing notions of family between the United States and Brazil, the extended family still plays a central role for most Brazilians.

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

With patrilineal descent, you take your father's last name, but you recognize descent through both of your parents

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

Members of a clan stipulate descent from a common apical ancestor.

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

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

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

A functional explanation attempts to correlate particular customs (in this case kinship terms) to other features of society.