Marriage and family

Question 1

Family

Answer 1

A social unit characterized by economic cooperation, management of reproduction and child rearing, common residence

Question 2

Marriage

Answer 2

Social approved and legitimate union which regulates seuxal and economic rights and obligations

Question 3

Functions of marriage and family

Answer 3

• Creation of relatively stable relationships between men and women
• mechanism for regulation of sexual division of labor
• Creates set of relationships required for children to reach adulthood

Question 4

incest Taboo

Answer 4

Prohibition of sexual intimacy between people defined as close relatives

Question 5

Explanation of incest taboo

Answer 5

• natural aversion theory
• inbreeding theory
• Family disruption theory
• Theory of expanding social alliances

Question 6

Mate selection

Answer 6

• Exogamy
• endogamy
• arranged marriages
• preferential cousin marriage
• cross-cousins
• Parallel cousins
• Levirate
• Sororate
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Question 7

Exogamy

Answer 7

a rule requiring marriage outside of ones own social/kinship group

Question 8

Endogamy

Answer 8

A rule requiring marriage within a specified social or kinship group

Question 9

Cross cousin mate selectino

Answer 9

Children of ones mother´s brother or father´s sister

Question 10

Parallel cousins in mate selection

Answer 10

Children of one´s mother´s sister or father´s brother

Question 11

Levirate

Answer 11

practice of a man marrying the widow of a deceased brother

Question 12

Sororate

Answer 12

Practice of a women marrying the husband of her deceased sister

Question 13

Number of spouses

Answer 13

• Monogamy
• Polygyny
• polyandry
• Serial Monogamy

Question 14

Monogamy

Answer 14

• Marriage in which an individual has a single spouse
• most common form around the world

Question 15

Plygyny

Answer 15

• The marriage custom of a man having several wives at the same time; a form of polygamy
• 7/10 societies permit polygyny

Question 16

Polyandry

Answer 16

• the marriage custom of a women having several husbands at one time
• rarest form of plural marriage (only 12 societies practice this)

Question 17

Serial monogamy

Answer 17

A marriage form in which a man or woman marries or lives with a series of partners in succession

Question 18

Economic consideration of marriage

Answer 18

• Bride price (Bride Wealth)
• Bride service
• Dowry
• Women exchange
• reciprocal exchange

Question 19

Residence patterns

Answer 19

• patrilocal
• Matrilocal
• Avunculocal
• Ambilocal
• Neolocal

Question 20

Family

Answer 20

A social unit characterized by economic cooperation, management of reproduction and child rearing, common residence

Question 21

Houshold

Answer 21

Residential units within which economic production, consumption, inheritance, childrearing, and shelter is organized.

Question 22

Functions of household and family

Answer 22

• Nurturance of children
• Facilitation of economic cooperation between sexes
• Emotional support
• Support during times of stress
• Organizational unit for important subsistence and social activities

Question 23

Basic forms of Family

Answer 23

• Nuclear families
• Extended families

Question 24

Nuclear family

Answer 24

• A family unit consisting of husband, wife, and dependent children
• Expect in a society where family is cut off from support from other family members and must fend for themselves

Question 25

Extended family

Answer 25

• A collection of nuclear families, related by ties of blood, that live together in one household
• usually found where subsistence patterns require a larger labor pool than other forms of houlsehold (i.e. nuclear family ) can provide