Post Test Chapter 6

1. Kinship refers to those relationships found in all societies that___________

• is based on blood

• includes consanguineal relatives

• includes affinal relatives

• all of the above

Anthropologists, as compared to other social scientists spent a great deal of time studying kinship because they have:

• always focused largely on biological relationships

• concentrated mainly on a small-scale society where kinship relations tend to be important.

• always studied fictional relationships.

• concentrate on industrial societies where kinship relations tend to be important.

A kinship diagram of a son, father, grandfather, and great grandfather would include

• affinal relatives

• collateral relatives

• two genders

• bilineal relatives

The system of acknowledge social parentage; which varies from society to society.

• descent

• kinship

• dynasty

• parental role

In bilateral descent, individuals ?

• are members of the kinship group their parents have selected for them

• is equally related to both the mother’s and the father’s side of the family.

• trace descent from both a patrilineage and a matrilineage.

• can choose with which side of the family they wish to affiliate.

An organized political community that is living under a single system of government which governs a large population, with a hierarchy of differing political positions and the power to enforce decisions

• State

• chiefdom

• band

• society

A kind of family structure composed of spouses and their children from a previous marriage.

• Extended

• reconstituted

• single

• nuclear

Also known as a politics of kinship is

• political dynasty

• political stratification

• political structure

• political arena

A relationship with other people through blood kinship ties based is

• Consanguineous kinship

• patrilineal

• polyandry

• polygyny

A descent based on a female line.

• patrilineal

• bilineal

• matrilineal

• lineal