NUSC 1165 FINAL MOLIKA CHEA UCONN
EXAM SCRIPT 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
●● Alloparenting.
Answer: Caregiving by someone other than the biological parent. Helps
reduce parental workload.
●● Avunculate.
Answer: Special relationship between a mother's brother and her
children. Common in matrilineal societies.
●● Bride service.
Answer: Husband works for wife's family after marriage. Seen in
foragers. Payment = labor, not money.
●● Clan.
Answer: Large kin group claiming common ancestor (usually mythical).
Determines marriage rules.
●● Cooperative breeding.
Answer: Many people help raise one child. Humans do this a LOT.
, ●● Imagined community.
Answer: Feeling of belonging to a group even if you'll never meet most
members. (Nation-states!)
●● Incest taboo.
Answer: Universal rule against mating with close kin. How "close"
varies across cultures.
●● Kinship.
Answer: Social relationships based on blood, marriage, or other ties.
Foundation of social life.
●● Marriage and Family Program.
Answer: Cultural rules about who marries whom and how families are
structured.
●● Matrilineal descent.
Answer: Tracing family through mother's line.
●● Matrilocal.
Answer: Couple lives with the wife's family after marriage.
●● Nuclear family.
EXAM SCRIPT 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
●● Alloparenting.
Answer: Caregiving by someone other than the biological parent. Helps
reduce parental workload.
●● Avunculate.
Answer: Special relationship between a mother's brother and her
children. Common in matrilineal societies.
●● Bride service.
Answer: Husband works for wife's family after marriage. Seen in
foragers. Payment = labor, not money.
●● Clan.
Answer: Large kin group claiming common ancestor (usually mythical).
Determines marriage rules.
●● Cooperative breeding.
Answer: Many people help raise one child. Humans do this a LOT.
, ●● Imagined community.
Answer: Feeling of belonging to a group even if you'll never meet most
members. (Nation-states!)
●● Incest taboo.
Answer: Universal rule against mating with close kin. How "close"
varies across cultures.
●● Kinship.
Answer: Social relationships based on blood, marriage, or other ties.
Foundation of social life.
●● Marriage and Family Program.
Answer: Cultural rules about who marries whom and how families are
structured.
●● Matrilineal descent.
Answer: Tracing family through mother's line.
●● Matrilocal.
Answer: Couple lives with the wife's family after marriage.
●● Nuclear family.
