Ucspol Q2

• What does kinship mean?

  Relationships based on blood or marriage
• How does society define kinship interaction?

  By determining socially important kin and expected behaviors
• What is fictive kinship?

  People not related by blood or marriage
• What is consanguineal kin?

  Kinship based on bloodline
• What is affinal kin?

  Kinship based on marriage
• What can kinship refer to?

  Patterns of social relationships or their study
• What is descent in kinship?

  A group based on common descent from an ancestor
• What is unilineal descent?

  Membership based on either patrilineal or matrilineal descent
• What does cognatic descent refer to?

  All descendants enjoying membership through any combination of linkages
• What is marriage defined as?

  An institution admitting men and women to family life
• What does marriage formally prescribe?

  Rights, duties, and privileges of spouses
• When does marriage officially start?

  With the ceremony known as wedding
• What does a marital relationship involve?

  A contract defining partners' rights and obligations
• How is marriage viewed sociologically?

  As a partnership formalized by ceremony
• What is the religious view of marriage?

  Marriage is a sacrament and inviolable bond
• How does the legal viewpoint define marriage?

  As a contract between a man and a woman
• What is polygamy?

  Being married to more than one person
• What is polygyny?

  One man marries more than one woman
• What is polyandry?

  One woman marries more than one man
• What is monogamy?

  One man marries one woman
• What is serial monogamy?

  Marrying again after death or divorce
• What is group marriage?

  Two or more women with two or more men
• What role does ritual kinship play?

  Strengthens and extends ties of kinship
• How are godparents selected?

  Chosen for baptism, confirmation, and marriage
• What is the ideal situation for co-parents?

  They should be a married couple
• Why are single women chosen as godparents?

  They are of good reputation
• What is important about the character of a godparent?

  They should have good standing in the community
• How do ties between co-parents reinforce kinship?

  By maintaining respect and assistance in need
• What is expected of a godparent?

  To assist in the child's upbringing if needed
• What is considered incestuous among co-parents?

  Marriage or sexual relations between them
• What is the significance of godparents in the countryside?

  They have daily social significance
• What should not break the ties between co-parents?

  Quarrels or the death of godchildren
• What is a conjugal family?

  A nuclear family focused inwardly
• What is an extended family?

  A family unit including other relatives
• What is the family of orientation?

  The family where one is born and reared
• What is the family of procreation?

  The family established when one marries
• What is a patrilineal family?

  A family tracing relationships through the father
• What is a matrilineal family?

  A family tracing relationships through the mother
• What is a bilateral family?

  A family tracing relationships through both parents
• What is a patriarchal family?

  A family with authority in the oldest male