SOCS 185 UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● patrilineal
Answer: kinship of family lineage (decent) and inheritance come
through the father and his blood relatives
●● ludus
Answer: a style of love that is playful, non-possessive --a challenging
love, without a deep commitment or lasting emotional involvment
●● exomgamy
Answer: the practice of requiring people to marry outside particular
groups
●● endogamy
Answer: the practice of requiring people to marry within a particular
social group
●● marriage
Answer: a union between people that unites them sexually, socially, and
economically, that is relatively consistent over time, and that accords
each person certain agree-upon rights
,●● monogamy
Answer: exclusivity in an intimate relationship. In marriage, it means
marriage to only one person at a time
●● polygamy
Answer: a broad category applied to forms of marriage that involve
multiple partners. in heterosexual marriage, polygamy involves a person
of one sex being married to two or more people of the opposite sex
(either polyandry or polygyny)
●● polygymy
Answer: a form of marriage in which one male is married to two or more
females
●● polyandry
Answer: a form of marriage in which one female is married to two or
more males
●● fraternal polyandry
Answer: a form of marriage in which a group of brothers share one wife
●● non-fraternal polyandry
,Answer: a form of marriage in which a woman's husbands are not
related
●● Cenogamy (Group Marriage)
Answer: a situation in which women and men in a group are
simultaneously married to one another
●● family
Answer: any relatively stable group of people who are related to one
another through blood marriage, or adoption, or who simply live
together, and who provide one another with economic and emotional
support
●● family of orientation
Answer: the family into which a person is born and raised
●● family of procreation
Answer: a family that is created with two people marry or enter into an
intimate relationship and have or adopt children children of their own
●● nuclear family
Answer: a family consisting of mother and father and their natural or
adopted offspring
, ●● extended/multi-generational family
Answer: a family consisting of one or both parents, siblings, if any, and
other relatives, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins
●● modified extended family
Answer: family in which a variety of relatives live not necessarily in the
same household but in very close proximity to one another, interact on
frequent basis, and provides emotional and economic support to each
other
●● patriarchal family
Answer: a family organized around the principle of male dominance,
wherein the male (husband or father) is head of the family members,
especially his wife and children
●● norms
Answer: cultural guidelines or rules of conduct that direct people to
behave in particular ways
●● social structure
Answer: recurrent, stable, and patterned ways that people relate to one
another in a society or group
●● status
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● patrilineal
Answer: kinship of family lineage (decent) and inheritance come
through the father and his blood relatives
●● ludus
Answer: a style of love that is playful, non-possessive --a challenging
love, without a deep commitment or lasting emotional involvment
●● exomgamy
Answer: the practice of requiring people to marry outside particular
groups
●● endogamy
Answer: the practice of requiring people to marry within a particular
social group
●● marriage
Answer: a union between people that unites them sexually, socially, and
economically, that is relatively consistent over time, and that accords
each person certain agree-upon rights
,●● monogamy
Answer: exclusivity in an intimate relationship. In marriage, it means
marriage to only one person at a time
●● polygamy
Answer: a broad category applied to forms of marriage that involve
multiple partners. in heterosexual marriage, polygamy involves a person
of one sex being married to two or more people of the opposite sex
(either polyandry or polygyny)
●● polygymy
Answer: a form of marriage in which one male is married to two or more
females
●● polyandry
Answer: a form of marriage in which one female is married to two or
more males
●● fraternal polyandry
Answer: a form of marriage in which a group of brothers share one wife
●● non-fraternal polyandry
,Answer: a form of marriage in which a woman's husbands are not
related
●● Cenogamy (Group Marriage)
Answer: a situation in which women and men in a group are
simultaneously married to one another
●● family
Answer: any relatively stable group of people who are related to one
another through blood marriage, or adoption, or who simply live
together, and who provide one another with economic and emotional
support
●● family of orientation
Answer: the family into which a person is born and raised
●● family of procreation
Answer: a family that is created with two people marry or enter into an
intimate relationship and have or adopt children children of their own
●● nuclear family
Answer: a family consisting of mother and father and their natural or
adopted offspring
, ●● extended/multi-generational family
Answer: a family consisting of one or both parents, siblings, if any, and
other relatives, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins
●● modified extended family
Answer: family in which a variety of relatives live not necessarily in the
same household but in very close proximity to one another, interact on
frequent basis, and provides emotional and economic support to each
other
●● patriarchal family
Answer: a family organized around the principle of male dominance,
wherein the male (husband or father) is head of the family members,
especially his wife and children
●● norms
Answer: cultural guidelines or rules of conduct that direct people to
behave in particular ways
●● social structure
Answer: recurrent, stable, and patterned ways that people relate to one
another in a society or group
●● status
