Unit 9 quiz (family)
Which of the following is NOT an example of an extended family?
A married couple living with their two children.
Which anthropologist focused on how kinship relates to education, politics, and subsistence?
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
Which statement is NOT true of kinship systems?
Cross-culturally, biology defines who one's closest relatives are.
Which statement is true regarding the role of kinship in solving problems in everyday life?
In smaller societies with low populations, kinship plays a significant role.
Which of the following is an example of a blended family?
Which of the following is an example of a blended family?
What is a ghost marriage?
a marriage performed between one or two deceased individuals
Which of the following describes the cultural practice of sororate?
a remarriage rule requiring that when a married woman dies, the deceased wife's lineage must provide a replacement wife
Which kinship structure merges an individual's parents same-sex siblings while cutting off the individual's opposite-sex siblings?
bifurcate merging kinship
What term describes the transfer of material and symbolic value from a groom to the bride's family?
bride wealth
What is the name for material value that a bride brings into her marriage?
dowry
Which kinship structure has the least complicated kinship terms?
generational kinship
Which kinship structure highlights the nuclear family?
lineal kinship
Which term describes the marriage of one woman to more than one man at the same time?
polyandry
Which term describes the marriage of one man to more than one woman at the same time?
polygyny
Which of the following does not describe a sociocultural construction?
the genetic relatedness of family members
Which of the following is an example of a fictive kinship?
the practice of godparenthood
Who conducted one of the earliest studies of kinship systems?
Lewis Henry Morgan
Which of these groups of people would NOT be considered a family?
two friends that share a home and co-own a business
