Cultural Anthropology
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Culture 6:see Culture 5/6 QUIZ

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1. AN OLDER MARRIED COUPLE, LIVING TOGETHER WITH THEIR MARRIED SONS, THEIR DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW AND THEIR GRANDCHILDREN, ALL IN THE SAME HOUSEHOLD OR COMPOUND, WOULD BE A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF
 AN ENDOGAMOUS CLAN
 AN EXTENDED FAMILY
 A DOUBLE DESCENT GROUP
 A CONSANGUINE FAMILY
 A NUCLEAR FAMILY
 

2. The Original Study of Chinese women in modern rural Taiwan suggests which of the following about their lives?
 It shows how Western influence has altered traditional ideas about women's roles.
 It shows that these women can gain considerable influence over the "men's world" without appearing to do so.
 It shows that these women are eagerly seeking education and career opportunities outside the home.
 It shows that when these women have closer and more comfortable relationships with their husbands, they have less to do with other women.
 It shows that these women are still virtually powerless and passive in their roles as wives.
 

3. DESCENT IS OFTEN RELATED TO:
 RULES OF INCEST PROHIBITION AND EXOGAMY
 THE ASSIGNMENT OF ULTIMATE RESPONSIBILITY FOR CHILDREN
 THE INHERITANCE OF RANK AND LAND
 ALL OF THE ABOVE
 NONE OF THE ABOVE
 

4. Your text suggests that the basic fundamental problem which the traditional American family poses for its members is
 the boredom of having so few people to interact with
 the independence of modern American women, who reject their "traditional" home-maker role
 the built-in isolation from the larger kingroups of both adults, which leaves a nuclear family very much 'on its own' to deal with all its experiences
 the sexual permissiveness of modern American culture which makes it too easy and tempting for married partners to look elsewhere for additional or alternative partners
 the American job market, which requires that families move often, and thus lose the stability of being settled in one place.
 

5. The most frequent form of family in the United States in the past decade has been 
 and still is the independent nuclear family.
 extended family variations, as grown children and their parents more often form households.
 single-parent families,most often headed by women.
 "co-ops" or "communes": sets of unrelated nuclear families who form joint cooperative households.
 step-joint families, as sets of remarried parents share responsibilities for all the children born to any of the couples.
 


7. AN EXTENDED FAMILY IS:
 A FAMILY THAT LIVES IN MORE THAN ONE HOUSE.
 A FAMILY CONSISTING OF TWO OR MORE MARRIED COUPLES AND THEIR CHILDREN.
 A FAMILY CONSISTING OF A MARRIED COUPLE AND THEIR CHILDREN.
 A FAMILY WITHOUT ENOUGH LAND TO GROW SUFFICIENT FOOD.
 A FAMILY WITH MORE THAN FIVE CHILDREN.
 

8. A non-corporate descent group whose members believe themselves to be related by a unilineal rule of descent to an unknown, often mythical, common ancestor is called a
 phratry
 kindred
 clan
 lineage
 indefinite extended family
 

9. IN A MATRILINEAL DESCENT SYSTEM, WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED TO BE RELATED TO A MALE EGO?
 HIS SISTER
 HIS SON
 HIS SISTER'S DAUGHTER
 HIS MOTHER'S BROTHER
 HIS BROTHER
 

10. IN A MATRILINEAL SOCIETY, THE ROLE OF 'MOTHER'S BROTHER' IS OFTEN MOST SIMILAR TO WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING?
 THE ROLE OF 'FATHER' IN A PATRILINEAL SOCIETY
 THE ROLE OF 'MOTHER'S BROTHER' IN OUR OWN SOCIETY
 THE ROLE OF 'GRANDFATHER' IN OUR OWN SOCIETY
 THE ROLE OF 'MOTHER'S BROTHER' IN A PATRILINEAL SOCIETY
 THE ROLE OF 'FRIEND' OR 'PAL' IN ANY SOCIETY
 
 
 
6. PATRILINEALITY IS THE MOST COMMON DESCENT AND IS FOUND IN ALMOST EVERY PART OF THE WORLD.
 TRUE
 FALSE
 

    
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