SOC 120: Marriage and Family Exam 1
ACTUAL UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Private Family - CORRECT ANSWERS 1. Two or more individuals
2. Maintain an intimate relationship lasting indefinitely
3. Live in same household
4. pool together goods and labor
**Intimacy, love and support
**Problem: boundary problem
Public Family - CORRECT ANSWERS 1. 1 or more adults related
2. taking care of
3. dependent
** problem: freerider
Externalities - CORRECT ANSWERS costs and benefits going to parties not directly
involved in transaction
Positive externalities of family - CORRECT ANSWERS Public Goods:
-kids who will contribute to society, pay for social security and medicare
-elderly care: family provides care so society doesn't have to
Negative Externalities of family - CORRECT ANSWERS Marriage leads to economic
inequality due to homogamy
Homogamy vs Heterogmany - CORRECT ANSWERS "Like marries like" vs "marriage of
opposites"
,-earning potentials are alike. Individuals marry people who have same education/income as them
which creates economic inequality
Families of choice - CORRECT ANSWERS voluntary ties, not biologically/legal relation
Fictive Kin - CORRECT ANSWERS In African American communities, neighbors take on
family like traits
Living apart together - CORRECT ANSWERS childless marriage like relationships, living
in separate homes.
Utilitarian Individualism - CORRECT ANSWERS style of life that emphasizes personal
achievement in workplace
-e.g. Mom working to send kids to school
Expressive Individualism - CORRECT ANSWERS focuses on developing ones emotions
and feelings
-e.g. wants to connect emotionally with a romantic partner or have a healthy body
Boundary Ambiguity - CORRECT ANSWERS uncertain who is in or out of your family
Kin, Created Kin and Assigned Kin - CORRECT ANSWERS Kin: people you are related
to
Created Kin: kinship ties people make actively
Assigned Kin: ties people automatically when they are born or marry
Family of Choice - CORRECT ANSWERS family formed through voluntary ties among
individuals who are not biologically related (lesbian or gays)
Lineage Definition and 3 types - CORRECT ANSWERS People died by descent
, 1. Patrilineal- consider fathers side relatives
2. Matrilineal- consider mothers side relatives
3. Bilineal- through both
**Coincides with inheritance
Locality Definition and 3 Types - CORRECT ANSWERS where couples settle after
marriage
1. patrilocality- husbands family origin
2. Matrilocality- wives family origin
3. neolocality- new independent household
Monogamy - CORRECT ANSWERS 2 spouses
"serial monogamy"- one spouse at a time but multiple marriages
Polygamy - CORRECT ANSWERS 3+ spouses
Polygyny - CORRECT ANSWERS multiple wives
Polyandry - CORRECT ANSWERS Multiple husbands
-effective method of fertility control (have less kids with one woman and multiple men)
Conjugal Household (nuclear family) - CORRECT ANSWERS kinship group is husband,
wife and children
Extended Household - CORRECT ANSWERS nuclear family and other relatives live in
same household
The Na - CORRECT ANSWERS -Society without marriage, husbands or fathers.
ACTUAL UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Private Family - CORRECT ANSWERS 1. Two or more individuals
2. Maintain an intimate relationship lasting indefinitely
3. Live in same household
4. pool together goods and labor
**Intimacy, love and support
**Problem: boundary problem
Public Family - CORRECT ANSWERS 1. 1 or more adults related
2. taking care of
3. dependent
** problem: freerider
Externalities - CORRECT ANSWERS costs and benefits going to parties not directly
involved in transaction
Positive externalities of family - CORRECT ANSWERS Public Goods:
-kids who will contribute to society, pay for social security and medicare
-elderly care: family provides care so society doesn't have to
Negative Externalities of family - CORRECT ANSWERS Marriage leads to economic
inequality due to homogamy
Homogamy vs Heterogmany - CORRECT ANSWERS "Like marries like" vs "marriage of
opposites"
,-earning potentials are alike. Individuals marry people who have same education/income as them
which creates economic inequality
Families of choice - CORRECT ANSWERS voluntary ties, not biologically/legal relation
Fictive Kin - CORRECT ANSWERS In African American communities, neighbors take on
family like traits
Living apart together - CORRECT ANSWERS childless marriage like relationships, living
in separate homes.
Utilitarian Individualism - CORRECT ANSWERS style of life that emphasizes personal
achievement in workplace
-e.g. Mom working to send kids to school
Expressive Individualism - CORRECT ANSWERS focuses on developing ones emotions
and feelings
-e.g. wants to connect emotionally with a romantic partner or have a healthy body
Boundary Ambiguity - CORRECT ANSWERS uncertain who is in or out of your family
Kin, Created Kin and Assigned Kin - CORRECT ANSWERS Kin: people you are related
to
Created Kin: kinship ties people make actively
Assigned Kin: ties people automatically when they are born or marry
Family of Choice - CORRECT ANSWERS family formed through voluntary ties among
individuals who are not biologically related (lesbian or gays)
Lineage Definition and 3 types - CORRECT ANSWERS People died by descent
, 1. Patrilineal- consider fathers side relatives
2. Matrilineal- consider mothers side relatives
3. Bilineal- through both
**Coincides with inheritance
Locality Definition and 3 Types - CORRECT ANSWERS where couples settle after
marriage
1. patrilocality- husbands family origin
2. Matrilocality- wives family origin
3. neolocality- new independent household
Monogamy - CORRECT ANSWERS 2 spouses
"serial monogamy"- one spouse at a time but multiple marriages
Polygamy - CORRECT ANSWERS 3+ spouses
Polygyny - CORRECT ANSWERS multiple wives
Polyandry - CORRECT ANSWERS Multiple husbands
-effective method of fertility control (have less kids with one woman and multiple men)
Conjugal Household (nuclear family) - CORRECT ANSWERS kinship group is husband,
wife and children
Extended Household - CORRECT ANSWERS nuclear family and other relatives live in
same household
The Na - CORRECT ANSWERS -Society without marriage, husbands or fathers.
