SOSA1002 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is a family - Answers - Set of relationships invented by humans
Affinal - relation by marriage
consanguineous- relation by blood
What functions does family perform - Answers - Humans invented family:
1. Organizational form.
who should care for children, how economic resources our spread out. Ease institutions
like law and the state
2. To fulfill basic needs of love, belonging... necessities
Nurturing unit, economic unit, dictates how people distribute wealth, loyalty and love
What makes a family - Answers - Defined by law, decent, marriage.
Immediate and distant family (uncle, cousins...)
What is Marriage - Answers - - Legal status that gives couple certain rights and
responsibilities.
- Cultural rules (push for people from same ethnicity or religion to get married
Why people marry? - Answers - People marry for many different reasons
- Love
-Access to legal rights
-Family alliances
-Inheritance
Bride wealth - Answers - Transfer of wealth that goes from the groom's family to the
bride's family to account for loss of human productivity
Bride Service - Answers - Labor done by the groom for the bride's groups
Dowry - Answers - Money of share of inheritance that accompanies the bride into male
family
Marriage and Alliances - Answers - Marriage creates an alliance between groups,
defines who lives where, and gives people a place in a society and rights (ex wedlock =
no right, denied kin)
Patriocality - Answers - when married couple lives with the husbands family
Matrilocality - Answers - When the married couple lives with the brides family
, Nonlocality - Answers - When married couple live on their own
Monogamy - Answers - sexual and romantic relationship exclusively between the
couple.
- Levirate marriage: when a widow marries younger brother
Polygamy - Answers - Marriage between one person and many
Polygyny - Answers - One husband to multiple wives
- Sororal polygyny: One man to several sisters
Polyandry - Answers - One wife to several husbands
- Fraternal polyandry: one wife to several brothers
Why these diverse forms of marriage - Answers - population size and scarcity of
resources. In regions with harsh environments and uneven distribution of goods, people
don't want lots of kids. Marrying one wife to many brothers allows for that so they don't
all go starting a family.
When Brothers Share a Wife by Melvyn Goldstein - Answers - - Tibet's marriage
system, which is fraternal polyandry
- Came about by the harsh realities of the environment. Wanting to keep population
growth down and allows prosperity to be divided between all members rather than going
to eldest son
Chosen families - Answers - These families are those we chose. Created through bonds
of love and belonging instead of purely biological and legal marriage
Queer kinship - Answers - Queers rejected by their families and found kinship between
one another
They don't contest kinship but reject the way it is determined through biology
What is Kinship? - Answers - It's a system that determines who we are related to and
what it means.
- What feelings should we have towards these people (what does it mean to be a son to
one man and a nephew to another)
They define a set of norms in your society, like what feelings you should have towards
people. Socially, we are influenced to have a higher degree of love for members of our
immediate family.
- Loyalties to those closest to you (in war, political and social contests)
- Organizes sex, reproduction and inheritance)
What Determines Kinship? - Answers - 1. Blood
What is a family - Answers - Set of relationships invented by humans
Affinal - relation by marriage
consanguineous- relation by blood
What functions does family perform - Answers - Humans invented family:
1. Organizational form.
who should care for children, how economic resources our spread out. Ease institutions
like law and the state
2. To fulfill basic needs of love, belonging... necessities
Nurturing unit, economic unit, dictates how people distribute wealth, loyalty and love
What makes a family - Answers - Defined by law, decent, marriage.
Immediate and distant family (uncle, cousins...)
What is Marriage - Answers - - Legal status that gives couple certain rights and
responsibilities.
- Cultural rules (push for people from same ethnicity or religion to get married
Why people marry? - Answers - People marry for many different reasons
- Love
-Access to legal rights
-Family alliances
-Inheritance
Bride wealth - Answers - Transfer of wealth that goes from the groom's family to the
bride's family to account for loss of human productivity
Bride Service - Answers - Labor done by the groom for the bride's groups
Dowry - Answers - Money of share of inheritance that accompanies the bride into male
family
Marriage and Alliances - Answers - Marriage creates an alliance between groups,
defines who lives where, and gives people a place in a society and rights (ex wedlock =
no right, denied kin)
Patriocality - Answers - when married couple lives with the husbands family
Matrilocality - Answers - When the married couple lives with the brides family
, Nonlocality - Answers - When married couple live on their own
Monogamy - Answers - sexual and romantic relationship exclusively between the
couple.
- Levirate marriage: when a widow marries younger brother
Polygamy - Answers - Marriage between one person and many
Polygyny - Answers - One husband to multiple wives
- Sororal polygyny: One man to several sisters
Polyandry - Answers - One wife to several husbands
- Fraternal polyandry: one wife to several brothers
Why these diverse forms of marriage - Answers - population size and scarcity of
resources. In regions with harsh environments and uneven distribution of goods, people
don't want lots of kids. Marrying one wife to many brothers allows for that so they don't
all go starting a family.
When Brothers Share a Wife by Melvyn Goldstein - Answers - - Tibet's marriage
system, which is fraternal polyandry
- Came about by the harsh realities of the environment. Wanting to keep population
growth down and allows prosperity to be divided between all members rather than going
to eldest son
Chosen families - Answers - These families are those we chose. Created through bonds
of love and belonging instead of purely biological and legal marriage
Queer kinship - Answers - Queers rejected by their families and found kinship between
one another
They don't contest kinship but reject the way it is determined through biology
What is Kinship? - Answers - It's a system that determines who we are related to and
what it means.
- What feelings should we have towards these people (what does it mean to be a son to
one man and a nephew to another)
They define a set of norms in your society, like what feelings you should have towards
people. Socially, we are influenced to have a higher degree of love for members of our
immediate family.
- Loyalties to those closest to you (in war, political and social contests)
- Organizes sex, reproduction and inheritance)
What Determines Kinship? - Answers - 1. Blood
