Kinship MCQ

Descent group membership based on links through either the maternal or the paternal line, but not both is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Unilineal Descent

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He pattern of close ties and frequent visits by immigrants to their home countries is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Transnationalism

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Transmigrants are the mmigrants who maintain close relations with their _____ countries.

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Correct Answer: Home

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The transfer of office or social position between generations is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Succession

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A form of sociopolitical organization in which multiple descent groups (usually patrilineages) form at different levels and function in same contexts is known as Segmentary Lineage System.

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Correct Answer: False

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Patrilocal is a system of residence in which the bride and her _____ live with her husband’s family after marriage.

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Correct Answer: Children

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Patrilineal Descent is a rule that affiliates a person to kin of both sexes through _____ only.

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Correct Answer: Males

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Patrilineage is a lineage formed by descent in the _____ line.

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Correct Answer: Male

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Parallel Cousins are children of a parent’s _____

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Correct Answer: Same sex siblings

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Any system of descent in which both the father’s and mother’s lineages have equal claim to the individual is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Nonunilineal Descent

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Matrilocal Residence is a system of residence in which a husband lives with or near his wife’s kin_____

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Correct Answer: After marriage

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Matrilineal Descent is a rule that affiliates a person to kin of both sexes through _____ only.

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Correct Answer: Females

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Matrilineage is a lineage formed by descent in the _____ line.

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Correct Answer: Female

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Lineal Kin is a kin related in _____

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Correct Answer: Single unbroken

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Lineage is a group of kin whose members trace descent from_____ ancestor.

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Correct Answer: Known common

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The words used to identify different categories of kin in a particular culture refers to Kinship Terminology.

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Correct Answer: True

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Kinship is the totality of _____ in a society.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Kinship is a culturally defined relationship established on the basis of _____

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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A unique kin network made up of all the people related to a specific individual in a bilateral kinship system is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Kindred

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Inheritance is the transfer of _____ between generations.

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Correct Answer: Property

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A rule specifying that a person must marry outside a particular group is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Exogamy

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The tracing of descent through both matrilineal and patrilineal links, each of which is used for different purposes is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Double Descent

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Descent Group is a group of kin who are descendants of a common ancestor, extending beyond _____ generations.

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Correct Answer: Two

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Descent is the culturally established affiliation between a child and _____

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Cross-Cousins means the children of a parent’s _____ of the opposite sex.

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Correct Answer: Siblings

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Consanguineal describes relations by descent.

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Correct Answer: True

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Collateral Kin is a kin descended from _____ ancestor but not in a direct ascendant or descendant line.

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Correct Answer: Common

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A unilineal kinship group whose members believe themselves to be descended from a common ancestor but who cannot trace this link through known relatives is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Clan

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System of descent under which individuals are equally affiliated with their mother’s and their father’s descent group is known as Bilateral Descent.

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Correct Answer: True

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A principle of classifying kin under which similar kinship terms are used for the mother’s side of the family and the father’s side of the family is known as Bifurcation.

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Correct Answer: False

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A form of bilateral descent in which an individual may choose to affiliate with either their father’s or mother’s descent group is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Ambilineal Descent

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Relatives by marriage; in-laws refer to _____

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Correct Answer: Affinal

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Which of the following kinship descriptions is a means of distinguishing between a mother’s kin and a father’s kin within the same family?

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Correct Answer: Side of the family

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Which of the kinship systems outlined by Henry Louis Morgan is most like the ones commonly found in industrial and postindustrial societies today?

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Correct Answer: Eskimo

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Which of the following of Lewis Henry Morgan’s kinship systems is matrilineal?

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Correct Answer: Crow

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Which kinship system described by Lewis Henry Morgan is most associated with ambilineality and ambilocality?

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Correct Answer: Hawaiian

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The term cross-cousins describes the children of someone’s ______.

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Correct Answer: Mother’s brother

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In anthropological terms, the side of the family is used to distinguish which aspect of kinship?

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Correct Answer: Relatives of the mother from relatives of the father

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Consanguineal kin is distinguished from other types of kin relationships because they are related by ______.

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Correct Answer: Descent

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When a society uses different terminology to distinguish between kindred relationships, such as mother or mother-in-law, this means ______.

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Correct Answer: They serve different social roles in the kinship system

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In a ______ kinship system, a wife lives with her husband’s family after marriage.

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Correct Answer: Patrilocal

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While rules about descent may be contested and change over time, which of the following lineage system has been most common in the United States?

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Correct Answer: Bilateral descent

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The Korean village of Pine Tree emphasizes patrilineality. Who receives inheritance of a family’s property?

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Correct Answer: The inheritance goes mostly to the eldest son.

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What does it mean that lineages can be considered “corporate groups”?

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Correct Answer: They own land and other productive resources as a unit.

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Which of the following terms refers to a group of kin that can trace their relations back to a common ancestor?

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Correct Answer: Clan

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______ refers to how kinship serves as a basis for the transfer

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Correct Answer: Inheritance

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They ways in which a society classifies kinship relations ____

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Correct Answer: Are cultural and vary between societies

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