Question

1.

____ means that a person is required to marry within his or her own social group.

	a.	Endogamy
	b.	Polygamy
	c.	Exogamy
	d.	Affinity

2.

Gender is

	a.	universally divided into masculine and feminine
	b.	a universal basis for organizing group activities
	c.	determined by one’s chromosomes
	d.	not an important dimension of a person's social identity

3.

Kinship terminology varies from culture to culture.

True

False

4.

Your father’s sister’s kids are your cross cousins.

True

False

Answer 1

1) a. Endogamy: It is the practice of marrying within once own local community.

Exogamy refers to practice of marrying outside once community.

Polygamy is having more than one wife/ husband.

2) a. Gender is universally divided as masculine or feminine.

All the group activities are not organised on the basis of gender alone, there may be other bases like age.

Sex is determined by chromosome but not gender per say. A person of male sex may identify himself as of feminine gender.

Gender is one of the most important social identity of a person.

3) True. Anthropologists have identified six kinship terminologies:

Hawaiian system- common in Pacific island people.

Eskimo system: nuclear families are emphasised.

Omaha system: found in patrilineal societies.

Crow system: matrilineal societies.

Iroquois system: found only in matrilineal societies.

Sudanese system: has descriptive term for each relative.

4) True. Children of brother and sister are called cross cousins.