SOCL 2001 Final Exam LSU Test
Questions and Correct Answers.
Family of origin - Answer A child's biological parents or others who are responsible for his or
her upbringing.
Family of procreation - Answer The family one creates through marriage or cohabitation with
a romantic partner. Today, we consider any adults you are living with as a family of procreation,
even if none of them is actually doing any procreating.
Family - Answer The basic unit in society, it traditionally consists of two parents rearing their
children but may also be any various social units differing from but regarded as equivalent to
the traditional family.
Kinship Systems - Answer Social systems that locate individuals by reference to their families,
that is, by common biological ancestry, legal marriage, or adoption.
Matrilineal descent - Answer Tracing one's ancestry through the mother, her mother, and so
on.
Patrilineal descent - Answer Tracing one's ancestry through the father, his father, and so on.
Bilateral descent - Answer Tracing one's ancestry through both parents.
Legitimacy - Answer Social arrangements that ensure men know what children they have
produced. Families then bear the economic and emotional burden of raising only the children
that belong to them.
Monogamy - Answer The most common arrangement; marriage between 2 people.
Polygamy - Answer Marriage between 3 or more people.
Polygyny - Answer The most common form of polygamy, a marriage between one man and
two or more women.
Polyandry - Answer Rare form of polygamy in which one woman marries two or more men.
, Group marriage - Answer Rare marriage arrangement in which two or more men marry two
or more women, with children born to anyone in the union "belonging" to all of the partners
equally.
Exogamy - Answer The insistence that marriage to (or sex with) members of your family unit
is forbidden. This is the incest taboo, which Sigmund Freud argued was the one single cultural
universal.
Extended Family - Answer The most common model in the premodern era, the family model
in which two or three generations lived under the same roof or at least in the same compound;
grandparents, parents, unmarried uncles and aunts, married uncles and aunts, sisters, brothers,
cousins, and all of their children.
Companionate Marriage - Answer The idea that people should select their own marriage
partner based on compatibility and mutual attraction.
Cohabitation - Answer Once called "shacking up" or "living in sin," now more often called
just "living together," the sociological term for people who are in a romantic relationship but not
married living in the same residence.
Non-marital sex - Answer Sexual relations outside marriage.
Multigenerational households - Answer Adults of more than one generation sharing a
domestic space.
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) - Answer Violence, lethal or non-lethal, experience by a
spouse, ex-spouse, or cohabiting partner; boyfriend or girlfriend; or ex-boyfriend or ex-
girlfriend. It is commonly called "domestic violence," but because some does not occur in the
home, IPV is the preferred term.
Consumption units - Answer According to the text, historically, families served as...
Extended Family - Answer Historically the most common family arrangement has been...
Exogamy - Answer The term for the requirement that people marry outside their own
family...
Fictive kinship - Answer Mutual ties of obligation and support among non-blood relations...
Ex (Sorority Sisters)
Questions and Correct Answers.
Family of origin - Answer A child's biological parents or others who are responsible for his or
her upbringing.
Family of procreation - Answer The family one creates through marriage or cohabitation with
a romantic partner. Today, we consider any adults you are living with as a family of procreation,
even if none of them is actually doing any procreating.
Family - Answer The basic unit in society, it traditionally consists of two parents rearing their
children but may also be any various social units differing from but regarded as equivalent to
the traditional family.
Kinship Systems - Answer Social systems that locate individuals by reference to their families,
that is, by common biological ancestry, legal marriage, or adoption.
Matrilineal descent - Answer Tracing one's ancestry through the mother, her mother, and so
on.
Patrilineal descent - Answer Tracing one's ancestry through the father, his father, and so on.
Bilateral descent - Answer Tracing one's ancestry through both parents.
Legitimacy - Answer Social arrangements that ensure men know what children they have
produced. Families then bear the economic and emotional burden of raising only the children
that belong to them.
Monogamy - Answer The most common arrangement; marriage between 2 people.
Polygamy - Answer Marriage between 3 or more people.
Polygyny - Answer The most common form of polygamy, a marriage between one man and
two or more women.
Polyandry - Answer Rare form of polygamy in which one woman marries two or more men.
, Group marriage - Answer Rare marriage arrangement in which two or more men marry two
or more women, with children born to anyone in the union "belonging" to all of the partners
equally.
Exogamy - Answer The insistence that marriage to (or sex with) members of your family unit
is forbidden. This is the incest taboo, which Sigmund Freud argued was the one single cultural
universal.
Extended Family - Answer The most common model in the premodern era, the family model
in which two or three generations lived under the same roof or at least in the same compound;
grandparents, parents, unmarried uncles and aunts, married uncles and aunts, sisters, brothers,
cousins, and all of their children.
Companionate Marriage - Answer The idea that people should select their own marriage
partner based on compatibility and mutual attraction.
Cohabitation - Answer Once called "shacking up" or "living in sin," now more often called
just "living together," the sociological term for people who are in a romantic relationship but not
married living in the same residence.
Non-marital sex - Answer Sexual relations outside marriage.
Multigenerational households - Answer Adults of more than one generation sharing a
domestic space.
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) - Answer Violence, lethal or non-lethal, experience by a
spouse, ex-spouse, or cohabiting partner; boyfriend or girlfriend; or ex-boyfriend or ex-
girlfriend. It is commonly called "domestic violence," but because some does not occur in the
home, IPV is the preferred term.
Consumption units - Answer According to the text, historically, families served as...
Extended Family - Answer Historically the most common family arrangement has been...
Exogamy - Answer The term for the requirement that people marry outside their own
family...
Fictive kinship - Answer Mutual ties of obligation and support among non-blood relations...
Ex (Sorority Sisters)
