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Chapter 10 / GEN 241
Cultural Appreciation
| Question | Answer | |
|---|---|---|
| Understanding kinships systems is an important part of anthropology because. | kinship ties are important to the people anthropologist study: they are a key component of peoples everyday social relations. | |
| What is the name of the family in which a child is raised? | The family of orientation | |
| what is the name of the postmarital residence pattern in which the married couple is expected to establish its own home? | Neolocality | |
| In North America, the realitively high incidence of expanded family housholds in the lower class is, | am important strategy the urban poor use to adapt to poverty. | |
| What ar the 2 basic social units of foraging societies? | the nuclear family and the band | |
| A unilineal descent group whose members demonstrate their common descent from an apical ancestor is a(n)? | lineage | |
| what term refers to the kind of descent in which people choose the descent group that they join? | Ambilineal | |
| what postmarital residence rule is most often found in socities with lineal kinship terminologies? | Neolocal | |
| Anthropologists are intrested in kinship calculation, which is | the system by which people in a society reckon their kin relationships. | |
| what does it mean that kinship, like race, is culturally constructed? | some genealogical kin are conisidered to be relatives whereas others are not, and the rules underlying such considerations vary across cultures. | |
| what does ego stand for? | the point of refrence used to determine which kin terms go where | |
| anthropologists distinguish between kin terms and genealogical kin types. what is the difference? | kin terms are the words used for different relatives in particular language, but genealogical kin types refer to the actual genealogical relationship. | |
| what kind of kinship is most common in the contemporary US? | Bilateral Kinship | |
| in what kind of kinship calculation are kin ties traced equally through males and females? | Bilateral | |
| Kinship terminology is a classification system, a taxonomy or typology. More generally, a taxonomic system | is based on how people perceive similarities and differences in the things being classified. | |
| what makes up ego's nuclear family of orientation? | parents and siblings | |
| what is the most common system of kinship classification used in the US? | Lineal |
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