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SOCI 2200 Quiz 2 Questions and Correct
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Family
Ans: -a group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder)
-related by birth, marriage, or adoption
-residing together
Social group
Ans: -two or more people who interact with one another, share similar
characteristics, and have a sense of unity
Primary social group
Ans: -bound together by strong emotional bond and common interests
-small, long-lasting, permanent, diffused, personal, informal
Secondary social group
Ans: -formal and utilitarian, the relationship between members exists due to
contractual obligation and interests
-larger groups, short term, specific, impersonal, goal-oriented, formal
Legal entity
Ans: -marriage is the legal cornerstone of family
-monogamous marriage continues to be the only adult intimate relationship that is
legally recognizes, culturally approves and endorses by the US Internal Revenue
Service (IRS)
Consanguineal kinship group
Ans: -relation based on blood or birth
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Affinal kinship group
Ans: -relations based on marriage
Fictive kinship group
Ans: -relations based on adoption
Household
Ans: -composed of one or more people who occupy a housing unit
Exclusionist definition of family
Ans: -a family is a "married couple with children"
-heterosexual marriage and biological or adopted children as key features of
family
-resistant to counting same-sex couples as family
Moderate definition of family
Ans: -"As soon as there are kids involved, then it's a family, whether they're both
same-sex or not."
-children make the family regardless of the gender and marital status of their
parents
Inclusionist definition of family
Ans: -"A living arrangement does not make a family, period. How the people
treat each other makes a family."
-less concerned about rules and legal ties
-more concerned with love and commitment
State
SOCI 2200 Quiz 2 Questions and Correct
Answers/ Latest Update / Already Graded
Family
Ans: -a group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder)
-related by birth, marriage, or adoption
-residing together
Social group
Ans: -two or more people who interact with one another, share similar
characteristics, and have a sense of unity
Primary social group
Ans: -bound together by strong emotional bond and common interests
-small, long-lasting, permanent, diffused, personal, informal
Secondary social group
Ans: -formal and utilitarian, the relationship between members exists due to
contractual obligation and interests
-larger groups, short term, specific, impersonal, goal-oriented, formal
Legal entity
Ans: -marriage is the legal cornerstone of family
-monogamous marriage continues to be the only adult intimate relationship that is
legally recognizes, culturally approves and endorses by the US Internal Revenue
Service (IRS)
Consanguineal kinship group
Ans: -relation based on blood or birth
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Affinal kinship group
Ans: -relations based on marriage
Fictive kinship group
Ans: -relations based on adoption
Household
Ans: -composed of one or more people who occupy a housing unit
Exclusionist definition of family
Ans: -a family is a "married couple with children"
-heterosexual marriage and biological or adopted children as key features of
family
-resistant to counting same-sex couples as family
Moderate definition of family
Ans: -"As soon as there are kids involved, then it's a family, whether they're both
same-sex or not."
-children make the family regardless of the gender and marital status of their
parents
Inclusionist definition of family
Ans: -"A living arrangement does not make a family, period. How the people
treat each other makes a family."
-less concerned about rules and legal ties
-more concerned with love and commitment
State
