Quiz #3

Large extended households are most prevalent in the _________ mode of livelihood.

Agriculture

Cultures can create kinship via which of the following:

Descent, sharing, and marriage

Which of the following is a common characteristic of the "Eskimo" kinship terminology system?

Different terms distinguish between parents and the parents' siblings

A factor in high rates of wife abuse in rural Kentucky is ____________.

Geographical isolation

Which of the following statements about the Minangkabau culture is accurate?

It is the world's largest matrilineal culture.

The research tool showing the relatives known by an individual or "ego" is a __________.

Kinship diagram

Neolocal residence for married couples is associated with ________.

The foraging mode of livelihood

Which of the following statements, regarding how households and kinship are changing in contemporary times, is false:

The increase in industrial/digital societies is resulting in fewer nuclear households.

Polyandry, as it is depicted in Goldstein's article and in the film 'Strange Relations', involves:

The potential for emotional hardship for all of those involved

In a patrilineal kinship system, a married couple is most likely to reside _________.

With or near the parents of the groom

Brideprice refers to ________

a gift to the bride's family from the groom's side

Which of the following statements is true: 1) Most matrilineal societies are horticulturalists, the mode in which women often have significant responsibility. 2) Unilineal decent makes sense in modes where there is a find resource base -- horticulture, pastoralism, and agriculture - because it provides stability. 3) Bilinear descent makes sense in foraging societies because it provides flexibility and reflects fluid social arrangements.

all are correct

Romantic love:

can exist even in polyandrous marriage systems

Three heterosexual couples are being married. Both the bride and groom of couple A are well-educated. The groom of couple B is from a much wealthier family than the bird. The bride of couple C is much taller than the groom. Which of the following sequences of terms is correctly applied to the three couples?

isogamy (couple A), Hypergyny (couple B), hypogyny (couple C).

Bilinear descent systems are _______.

less common than unilineal descent systems

The system of descent in which kinship is traced through the female line is called:

matrilineal

Compared to a family, a household may include _____________.

people who are not related by kinship

The difference between cross-cousins an parallel cousins is defined by what factor?

the gender of the ego's parent of whom the cousin's parent is a sibling

Bride service involves _______.

the groom working for the bride's family

In the film 'Strange Relations', the first segment in North Africa tells a 'love marriage' story from a culture that practices which type of kinship:

Patrilineal polygyny