Question 1

A bifurcate merging kinship terminology distinguishes between collateral and lineal relatives.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Recent census data reveal that more U.S. women are now living without a husband than with one.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

In the United States, the ratio of marriages to divorces doubled between 1960 and 1980, and the divorce rate reached 55% in 2010.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Although the nuclear family remains a cultural ideal for many Americans, nuclear families accounted for just 22.5 percent of American households in 2007. In fact, other domestic arrangements outnumber the traditional U.S. household more than four to one. All of the following are among the reasons for these trends EXCEPT that

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A)   women are increasingly joining men in the workforce.
B)   job demands compete with romantic attachments.
C)   divorce rates have risen.
D)   it is increasingly economically feasible for women to delay marriage and yet live away from their family of orientation.
E)   contrary to expectations, the importance of kinship is growing in contemporary nations.F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

Question 5

This chapter offers a brief overview of kinship-related demographic changes in the United States and Canada. How have kinship arrangements changed? How do these changes relate to other cultural changes? Do you find any of the current trends surprising? If so, why?

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Kinship arrangements in the United State...

Question 6

Industrialization increases mobility, which plays a major role in the disappearance of extended families in the United States.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

What is the name of the family in which a child is raised?

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A)   family of procreation
B)   family of orientation
C)   family of nucleation
D)   genealogical family
E)   family of kinF) B) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 8

"Anthropologists spend much of their time studying trivia like kinship." Do you agree with this statement? If so, why? If not, why not?

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Question 9

After reaching an all-time low for the 20th century in the 1970s, the nuclear family is now making a rebound, accounting for a greater number of U.S. households each year.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

In Arembepe, Brazil, a degree of community solidarity was promoted, for example, by the myth that everyone was kin. However, social solidarity was actually much less developed in Arembepe than in societies with clans and lineages. Why?

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A)   Intense social solidarity requires not a myth but a biologically grounded genealogy that shows people's actual relatedness.
B)   Arembepeiros who became successful were bound by social obligation to share their wealth. This powerful leveling mechanism worked against social solidarity.
C)   In societies with clans and lineages, social solidarity is much more developed, because they have more elaborate kinship rituals than Arembepeiros do.
D)   Intense social solidarity is possible only in societies having homogeneous ancestry. In Arembepe, high ethnic diversity weakens kinship ties.
E)   Intense social solidarity demands that some people be excluded. By asserting they were all related-that is, by excluding no one-Arembepeiros were actually weakening kinship's potential strength in creating and maintaining group solidarity.F) All of the above
G) D) and E)

Question 11

According to genealogical kin types used by anthropologists to study kinship relations, what kind of relative is ego's mother's brother?

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A)   lineal relative
B)   affinal relative
C)   collateral relative
D)   nuclear family member
E)   member of the P2 generationF) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 12

Contemporary North American adults usually define their families as consisting of their husbands or wives and their children. In contrast, when middle-class Brazilians talk about their families, they mean their parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and on, down to their children. They rarely mention the spouse. Which of the following is among the reasons for this stark cultural contrast?

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A)   Brazilians readily incorporate strangers into their social worlds.
B)   North Americans value independence over their family.
C)   North Americans have more choices about where they can live, and they have chosen to live away from their relatives.
D)   Brazilians live in a less mobile society and so stay in closer contact with their relatives, including members of their extended family, than do North Americans.
E)   Brazilians have purely economic relationships with their spouses.F) C) and D)
G) All of the above

Question 13

What kind of kinship is most common in the contemporary United States?

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A)   matrilateral kinship
B)   bilateral kinship
C)   patrilateral kinship
D)   collateral kinship
E)   generational kinshipF) A) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 14

U.S. kinship calculation is bilateral, traced equally through males and females; for example, father and mother.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

In a bifurcate merging kinship system, which of the following would be called by the same term?

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A)   F and MB
B)   M and MZ
C)   MB and FB
D)   FZ and MZ
E)   JR and BJF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 16

The higher proportion of expanded family households among poorer Americans has been explained as an adaptation to poverty.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Members of a clan are descended from a common apical ancestor.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

In what kind of kinship calculation are kin ties traced equally through males and females?

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A)   bilineal
B)   bifurcate merging
C)   bifurcate collateral
D)   bilateral
E)   biluminousF) B) and C)
G) A) and C)

Question 19

In some systems of kinship terminology, lineal and collateral relatives are grouped together under the same kinship terms, and in others they are not. In terms of the sociocultural setting in which these terminologies exist, discuss reasons for the differences.

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The differences in grouping lineal and c...

Question 20

What is the name of the postmarital residence pattern in which the married couple is expected to establish its own home?

Accepted Answer

A)   neolocality
B)   patrilocality
C)   matrilocality
D)   ambilocality
E)   uxorilocalityF) All of the above
G) B) and E)

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