SOSA1002 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Social identity - Answers - Each of us occupies a variety of positions in society and each
of us has a set of rights and duties with respect to others occupying other,
complementary positions (e.g., a daughter, a friend, a grandaughter; you will act
differntley depending which position you are at the moment)
Cultural construction - Answers - Ideas about the world and people in it that seem quite
obvious and ordinary to the memvers of a culture that are products of specific, social,
historical, political traditions and differ from one culture to another
- E.g., "Americans are highly individualist and self-centred", "Canadians are tolerant and
nice"
Agency - Answers - The capacity of individuals to exert an influence on their social,
cultural and natural worlds and thus change how they operate
- Can be used to "reify" naturalized cultural constructions, or to interrupt and displace
them
Marriage - Answers - An alliance between two kin groups, achieved by the union of two
people and therefore very important for creating societal coherence
Kinship - Answers - Organizing individuals into social groups, roles and categories,
based on parentage and marriage
Modes of Kin Reckoning - Answers - 1. Consanguinity
2. Affinity
3. Fictive and chosen kin
Consanguinity - Answers - Kin relations based on blood line
- E.g., genetic inheritance
Affinity - Answers - Kin relations based on marital links
- E.g., mother-in-law
Fictive and chosen kin - Answers - Kin ties based on declared relations through close
familial or household relations
- E.g., family friends
Why is kinship of interest to anthropologists? - Answers - Important in understanding
how societies are organized and how they work
Brideprice - Answers - A transfer of wealth from the male's group to the female's
, Bridewealth - Answers - Payment of which provided the bride's kin with compensation
for the loss of her productive capacity and which also affirms the husband's kin rights
over the children of that marriage
Residence patterns - Answers - Where one or both partners and their immediate kind
take up residence in proximity to one or the other of their respective kin groups
Matrilocality - Answers - Residing with the kin group of the married woman
Patrilocality - Answers - Residing with the kin group of the married man
Bilocality - Answers - Residing with the kin group of both the married parties
Descent patterns - Answers - Based on cross-generational lines of shared blood
Patrilineality - Answers - Descent is reckoned through the male line
Matrilineality - Answers - Descent is reckoned through the female line
Monogamy - Answers - An exclusive union of one man and one woman
Polygyny - Answers - Where a man has more than one wife - often with reproductive
intention
Polyandry - Answers - Where one woman has more than one husband - tends to slow
population growth
The Natooas Sundance Circle - Answers - A relational economy of persons, things,
shadows
Nitsiitapii - Answers - Tipi ceremonials where persons become "real persons"
- Indigenous term for naming who they are, based in relational practices
Ethnicity - Answers - The cultural characteristics that connect a particular group or
groups of people to each other (e.g., shared blood over generations)
Race - Answers - Divides the entire human species into a limited number of categories
based on supposed physical differences
- E.g., intelligence, beauty, capacity for ethical behaviour, etc.
Caste - Answers - A social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation,
economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups
Ideologies of ethnicity - Answers - Base collective identity on shared descent, usually
relating to a common regional or national origin
- E.g., language, dress, occupational specialization, and religion
Social identity - Answers - Each of us occupies a variety of positions in society and each
of us has a set of rights and duties with respect to others occupying other,
complementary positions (e.g., a daughter, a friend, a grandaughter; you will act
differntley depending which position you are at the moment)
Cultural construction - Answers - Ideas about the world and people in it that seem quite
obvious and ordinary to the memvers of a culture that are products of specific, social,
historical, political traditions and differ from one culture to another
- E.g., "Americans are highly individualist and self-centred", "Canadians are tolerant and
nice"
Agency - Answers - The capacity of individuals to exert an influence on their social,
cultural and natural worlds and thus change how they operate
- Can be used to "reify" naturalized cultural constructions, or to interrupt and displace
them
Marriage - Answers - An alliance between two kin groups, achieved by the union of two
people and therefore very important for creating societal coherence
Kinship - Answers - Organizing individuals into social groups, roles and categories,
based on parentage and marriage
Modes of Kin Reckoning - Answers - 1. Consanguinity
2. Affinity
3. Fictive and chosen kin
Consanguinity - Answers - Kin relations based on blood line
- E.g., genetic inheritance
Affinity - Answers - Kin relations based on marital links
- E.g., mother-in-law
Fictive and chosen kin - Answers - Kin ties based on declared relations through close
familial or household relations
- E.g., family friends
Why is kinship of interest to anthropologists? - Answers - Important in understanding
how societies are organized and how they work
Brideprice - Answers - A transfer of wealth from the male's group to the female's
, Bridewealth - Answers - Payment of which provided the bride's kin with compensation
for the loss of her productive capacity and which also affirms the husband's kin rights
over the children of that marriage
Residence patterns - Answers - Where one or both partners and their immediate kind
take up residence in proximity to one or the other of their respective kin groups
Matrilocality - Answers - Residing with the kin group of the married woman
Patrilocality - Answers - Residing with the kin group of the married man
Bilocality - Answers - Residing with the kin group of both the married parties
Descent patterns - Answers - Based on cross-generational lines of shared blood
Patrilineality - Answers - Descent is reckoned through the male line
Matrilineality - Answers - Descent is reckoned through the female line
Monogamy - Answers - An exclusive union of one man and one woman
Polygyny - Answers - Where a man has more than one wife - often with reproductive
intention
Polyandry - Answers - Where one woman has more than one husband - tends to slow
population growth
The Natooas Sundance Circle - Answers - A relational economy of persons, things,
shadows
Nitsiitapii - Answers - Tipi ceremonials where persons become "real persons"
- Indigenous term for naming who they are, based in relational practices
Ethnicity - Answers - The cultural characteristics that connect a particular group or
groups of people to each other (e.g., shared blood over generations)
Race - Answers - Divides the entire human species into a limited number of categories
based on supposed physical differences
- E.g., intelligence, beauty, capacity for ethical behaviour, etc.
Caste - Answers - A social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation,
economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups
Ideologies of ethnicity - Answers - Base collective identity on shared descent, usually
relating to a common regional or national origin
- E.g., language, dress, occupational specialization, and religion
