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How people in a particular society reckon kin relations is known as?
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Kinship Calculation
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The position from which one views an egocentric genealogy is known as?
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Ego
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Kin ties calculated equally through men and women are known as?
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Bilateral kinship calculation
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Relatives outside ego's direct line are connected to the term?
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Collateral relative
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Flexible descent rule, neither patrilineal nor matrilineal is called?
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Ambilineal
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For North americans, the entire range of kin arrangements is?
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Narrower
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Cross-culturally the social construction of kinship illustrates?
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Considerable diversity
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The nuclear family in which one is born and grows up is called?
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Family of Orientation
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Children of two brothers or two sisters are referred to as?
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Parallel cousin
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In the case of____a man weds two or more women.
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Plural Marriage
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When a woman weds a group of brothers, this is referred to as?
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Fraternal Polyandry
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In most cultures, people avoid incest by___.
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Following the rules of exogamy
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_____means to marry someone similar.
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Homogamy
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In the___ substantial gifts to the husband's family from the wife's group are offered.
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Dowry
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In the case of a widow marrying the brother of her deceased husband, this is known as
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Levirate
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Outside industrial societies, marriage is often more a relationship between____ than one between
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Groups
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No definition of marriage is broad enough to apply easily to all societies and situations.
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True
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Among the Yanomami of Brazil, sex (and marriage) to parallel cousins is proper, but sex w cross cousins...
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False
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marked differences in male and female biology besides the primary and secondary sexual features
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Sexual dimorphism
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Biological differences
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Sex
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traits that a culture assigns to and inculcates in males and females.
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Gender
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tasks and activities that a culture assigns to the sexes
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Gender roles
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oversimplified, strongly held ideas of characteristics of men and women
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Gender Stereotypes
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unequal distribution of rewards between men and women, reflecting different positions in a social hierarchy
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Gender Stratification
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strong differentiation between home and the outside world is called the domestic-public dichotomy, or the private-public contrast
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Domestic-public dichotomy
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people join mother's group at birth
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Matrilineal descent
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descent traced through men
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Patrilineal descent
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political system ruled by men in which women have inferior social and political status, including basic human rights
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Patriarchy
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group based on belief in a shared ancestry; they are basic units in the social organization of nonindustrial food producers.
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Descent group
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mother, father, and biological children
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Nuclear Family
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formed when one marries and has children
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Family of procreation
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married couples may live hundreds of miles from parents
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Neolocality
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expanded family household that includes three or more generations (common among poorer Americans).
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Extended family household
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descent rule uses one line
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unilineal descent
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unilineal descent line based on demonstrated descent
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Lineage
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descent group that claims common descent from an apical ancestor but cannot demonstrate it (stipulated descent)
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clan
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People choose the descent group to which they belong
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Ambilineal descent
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relates to actual genealogical relationship (father's brother) as opposed to kin term (uncle)
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Genealogical kin types
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people tend to perceive kin links through males and females as being similar or equal
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Bilateral kinship
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can relate particular customs to other features of a society
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Functional explanation
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four parental kin terms (M, F, FB-MB, and MZ-FZ)
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Lineal kinship terminology
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ego's direct descendant
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Lineal relative
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relative outside ego's direct line, e.g., B, Z, FB, MZ
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Collateral relatives
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relatives by marriage
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Affinals
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separate terms are used for each of six kin types of the parental generation; M, F, MB, MZ, FB, and FZ
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Bifurcate collateral terminology
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biological father of a child
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Genitor
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socially recognized father of a child
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Pater
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practice of seeking a spouse outside one's own group
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Exogamy
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children of two brothers or two sisters
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Parallel cousins
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children of a brother and a sister Lakher of Southeast Asia are strictly patrilineal
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cross cousins
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marriage of people from the same group
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Endogamy
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substantial marital gift from husband and his kin to the wife and her kin
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Lobola
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a man has more than one wife; the more common form
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Polygyny
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a woman has more than one husband; rare
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Polyandry
