Ch. 7: Kinship, Marriage, and Family

Question 1

Ambilineal Descent

Answer 1

Parents have the choice of affiliating their children with either kinship group

Question 2

Ambilocal Residence

Answer 2

The married couple has a choice of living with either the relatives of the wife or the relatives of the husband

Question 3

Arranged Marriage

Answer 3

A marriage in which the selection of the spouse is outside the control of the bride and groom

Question 4

Avunculocal Residence

Answer 4

The married couple lives with or near the husband’s mother’s brother

Question 5

Bilateral Descent

Answer 5

A person is related equally to both the mother’s and father’s sides of the family

Question 6

Bride service

Answer 6

Work or service performed for the brides family by the groom for a specified period of time either before or after the marriage

Question 7

Bridewealth

Answer 7

The compensation given upon marriage by the family of the groom to the family of the bride

Question 8

Consanguineal relatives

Answer 8

Those people to whom we are related through birth or blood

Question 9

Cross cousins

Answer 9

The children of siblings of the opposite sex

Question 10

Descent

Answer 10

A person’s kinship connections traced back through a number of generations

Question 11

Divorce

Answer 11

The formal dissolution of a marriage

Question 12

Dowry

Answer 12

Goods or money transferred from the bride’s family to the groom or to the groom’s family

Question 13

Endogamy

Answer 13

Marrying within a certain group

Question 14

Exogamy

Answer 14

Marrying outside of a certain group

Question 15

Extended Family

Answer 15

Two or more nuclear families that are linked by blood ties

Question 16

Fictive kinship

Answer 16

Relationships that are determined by neither blood nor marriage

Question 17

Incest taboo

Answer 17

The prohibition on mating with certain categories of relatives

Question 18

Kinship system

Answer 18

Those relationships found in all societies that are based on blood or marriage

Question 19

Levirate

Answer 19

The custom whereby a widow is expected to marry the brother (or some close male relative) of her dead husband

Question 20

Matriarchy

Answer 20

The women in a society have more authority and decision-making prerogatives than the men

Question 21

Matrilineal descent

Answer 21

A form of descent in which people trace their primary kin connections through their mothers

Question 22

Matrilocal residence

Answer 22

The married couple lives with or near the relatives of the wife

Question 23

Monogamy

Answer 23

The marriage of one man to one woman at a time

Question 24

Multilineal descent

Answer 24

Ancestry traced through both females and males and includes ambilineal descent and bilateral descent

Question 25

Neolocal residence

Answer 25

The married couple establishes an independent place of residence away from the relatives of either spouse

Question 26

Nuclear family

Answer 26

A two-generation family formed around the marital union and the children

Question 27

Parallel cousins

Answer 27

The children of siblings of the same sex

Question 28

Patrilineal descent

Answer 28

A form of descent in which people trace their primary kin relationships through their fathers

Question 29

Patrilocal residence

Answer 29

The married couple lives with or near the relatives of the husband's father

Question 30

Polyandry

Answer 30

The marriage of a woman to two or more men at the same time

Question 31

Polygyny

Answer 31

The marriage of a man to two or more women at the same time

Question 32

Preferential cousin marriage

Answer 32

A marriage between either parallel or cross cousins

Question 33

Serial monogamy

Answer 33

Taking a number of different spouses one after another rather than at the same time

Question 34

Sororate

Answer 34

The practice of a widower marrying the sister (or some close femLe relative) of his deceased wife

Question 35

Unilineal descent

Answer 35

Whereby people trace their ancestry through either the mother's line or the father's line, but not both

Question 36

Affinal Relatives

Answer 36

Those to whom we are related through marriage