Chapter 14

Question 1

A type of unilateral descent that follows either the father’s or the mother’s side exclusively

Answer 1

ambilineal

Question 2

The act of entering into marriage while still married to another person

Answer 2

bigamy

Question 3

The tracing of kinship through both parents’ ancestral lines

Answer 3

bilateral descent

Question 4

When a couple shares a residence but is not married

Answer 4

cohabitation

Question 5

An intimate relationship that lasts only as long as the satisfaction it brings to both partners

Answer 5

confluent love

Question 6

A family whose members are connected by divorce rather than marriage, for example ex in laws, or ex spouse’s new partners

Answer 6

divorce extended family

Question 7

Social relationships are based on giving and returning valued goods or services. Individuals seek to maximize their rewards in their interactions with others

Answer 7

exchange theory

Question 8

A household that includes at least one parent and child as well as other relatives like grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins

Answer 8

extended family

Question 9

Socially recognized groups of individuals who may be joined by blood, marriage, or adoption, and who form an emotional connection and an economic unit of society

Answer 9

family

Question 10

A sociological model of family that sees the progression of events as fluid rather than as occurring in strict stages

Answer 10

family life course

Question 11

A set of predictable steps and patterns that families experience over time

Answer 11

family life cycle

Question 12

The family into which one is born

Answer 12

family of orientation

Question 13

A family that is formed through marriage

Answer 13

family of procreation

Question 14

A condition of constant mobility, unpredictability and change in relationships within contemporary society

Answer 14

fluid modernity

Question 15

The social rule that an individual may not have sex with or marry someone who is a close blood relative

Answer 15

incest taboo

Question 16

Violence that occurs between individuals who maintain a romantic or sexual relationship; includes unmarried, cohabiting, and same-sex couples, as well as heterosexual married couples

Answer 16

intimate partner violence (IPV)

Question 17

A person’s traceable ancestry (by blood, marriage, and/or adoption)

Answer 17

kinship

Question 18

A system of social organization based on real or putative family ties

Answer 18

kinship system

Question 19

A legally recognized contract between two or more people in a sexual relationship, who have an expectation of permanence about their relationship

Answer 19

marriage

Question 20

Relatively egalitarian, small scale agricultural societies in which mothering is recognized as the central unifying structure

Answer 20

matriarchy

Question 21

A type of unilateral descent that follows the mother’s side only

Answer 21

matrilineal descent

Question 22

A system in which it is customary for a husband to live with his wife’s family

Answer 22

matrilocal residence

Question 23

When someone is married to only one person at a time

Answer 23

monogamy

Question 24

A cohabiting man and woman who are married and have at least one biological child under the age of 18

Answer 24

nuclear family

Question 25

A type of love which expresses the emotions of impulsive and pervasive sexual attachment to another

Answer 25

passionate love

Question 26

A type of unilateral descent that follows the father’s line only

Answer 26

patrilineal descent

Question 27

A system in which it is customary for a wife to live with (or near) her husband’s family

Answer 27

patrilocal residence

Question 28

The practice of sharing intimate relationships with more than one partner

Answer 28

polyamory

Question 29

A form of marriage in which one woman is married to more than one man at one time

Answer 29

polyandry

Question 30

The state of being committed or married to more than one person at a time

Answer 30

polygamy

Question 31

A form of marriage in which one man is married to more than one woman at one time

Answer 31

polygyny

Question 32

A non-institutionalized form of intimacy in which couples enter into a relationship that lasts only as long as the satisfaction it brings to both partners

Answer 32

pure relationship

Question 33

A group of medical symptoms, such as brain swelling and retinal hemorrhage, resulting from forcefully shaking or impacting an infant’s head

Answer 33

shaken-baby syndrome

Question 34

A large, rural, multi-generational, economically self-sufficient family, in which one of the children marries and remains in the family home while other siblings move away

Answer 34

stem family

Question 35

A couple family in which at least one child is the biological or adopted child of only one married spouse or common-law partner and whose birth or adoption preceded the current relationship

Answer 35

stepfamily

Question 36

Large scale, societal patterns in people’s feelings or emotional responses towards things

Answer 36

structure of feeling

Question 37

A projection of how many new marriages are expected to fail after 30 years, based on the divorce rate by marriage duration observed in a given year

Answer 37

total divorce rate

Question 38

The tracing of kinship through one parent only

Answer 38

unilateral descent