Vocab 2

Question 1

the relationships of groups within a society that hold it together

Answer 1

social structure

Question 2

elaborations and meanings assigned by cultures to the biological differentiation of the sexes

Answer 2

gender

Question 3

process whereby culture is transmitted from one generation to the next

Answer 3

enculturation

Question 4

relatives by marriage or law

Answer 4

affinal kin

Question 5

relatives by birth, “blood relatives”

Answer 5

consanguineal kin

Question 6

marriages within a particular group/category

Answer 6

endogamy

Question 7

marriage outside the group/category

Answer 7

exogamy

Question 8

marriage where a person has one spouse at a time

Answer 8

monogamy

Question 9

person is married to more than one person at a time

Answer 9

polygamy

Question 10

man having several wives at same time

Answer 10

polygyny

Question 11

compensation paid by groom/his family to bride’s family upon marriage

Answer 11

bride price

Question 12

period of time after marriage where the groom works for the bride’s family

Answer 12

bride service

Question 13

payment of a woman’s inheritance at the time of marriage, either to her or husband

Answer 13

dowry

Question 14

married couple lives close to husband’s father’s relatives

Answer 14

patrilocal residence

Question 15

married couple lives close to wife’s relatives

Answer 15

matrilocal residence

Question 16

married couple establish household apart from relatives

Answer 16

neolocal residence

Question 17

relationship that uses kinship terms but people involved aren’t necessarily related by blood/marriage

Answer 17

fictive kin

Question 18

descent traced through female line

Answer 18

matrilineal descent

Question 19

descent traced through male line

Answer 19

patrilineal descent

Question 20

recognizing family as genetically close relatives (not in-laws) through both sexes

Answer 20

bilateral descent

Question 21

corporate descent group composed of consanguineal kin who trace descent to a common ancestor

Answer 21

lineage

Question 22

noncorporate descent group claiming descent from a common ancestor without knowing genealogical links

Answer 22

clan

Question 23

aspects of society specifically concerned with the management of society’s public policy

Answer 23

political organization

Question 24

externalized social controls designed to encourage conformity to social norms

Answer 24

sanctions

Question 25

one by which goods are produced, distributed, and consumed, determines one's access to natural resources

Answer 25

economic system

Question 26

inheritance practice where the first born inherits majority of whatever is being passed down

Answer 26

primogeniture