What descent group allows you to trace all ancestors on both sides of the family?
100
Patrilocal
What household pattern allows a married couple to live in the husband's father's family.
100
Food-Foraging
What subsistence pattern required people to move their residence according to changing food sources?
100
Shared
What cultural characteristic allows people to predict how others are most likely to behave in a given circumstance, and it tells them how to react accordingly?
100
Informal interview
What is an unstructured, open-ended conversation in everyday life?
200
Polygyny
What is the marriage of a man to two or more women at the same time. Tends to create less stress in the household due to sharing of the chores.
200
Matrilocal
What household pattern allows a married couple to live in the wife's mother's family.
200
Horticulture
What subsistence pattern requires small communities of gardeners who work with simple hand tools (no irrigation or plows) etc. slash and burn?
200
Learned-enculturation
Who cultural characteristic helps us learn one's own culture by growing up with it, and is the process whereby culture is passed on from one generation to the next?
200
Formal interview
What is a structured question-answer session based on prepared questions?
300
Polyandry
What is the marriage of a woman to two or more men at the same time, (usually brothers)
300
Neolocal
What household pattern is the most common resident pattern in the United States in which a married couple lives in a locality apart from either the husband's or wife's relations.
300
Agriculture
What subsistence pattern uses crop cultivation involving technologies other than hand tools (irrigation, fertilizers, plows, and draft animals)?
300
Based on symbols
What cultural characteristic enables us to link something arbitrary to a sign, sound, or emblem in a meaningful way?
300
Eliciting devices
What are activities and objects used to draw out individuals to help them recall and explain?
400
Patrilineal Descent
What descent group can trace a man's children through the male line to their common ancestor.
400
Household
What is the basic residential unit where economic production, consumption, inheritance, child rearing, and shelter are organized and carried out?
400
Pastoralism
What means of subsistence relies on raising and managing herds of domesticated migratory grazing animals (cattle, sheep, and goats)?
400
Integrated
What cultural characteristic structures society into distinctive parts that function together as an organized whole?
400
Key consultant
What is a member of the society being studied who provides information to researchers so that they understand the meaning of what they observe?
500
Matrilineal Descent
What decent passes through the female line in which women may have power or they may share authority in the descent group with men?
500
Cohabitation
What is a housing pattern where two people live together without marriage?
500
Industrial Societies
What subsistence pattern replaced human labor and hand tools with machines which resulted in massive cultural change in many societies?
500
Dynamic
What cultural characteristic demonstrates the flexibility of culture and allows adjustments in the face of unstable or changing circumstances?
500
Participant observation
What is the technique of learning a people's culture through participating and personal observation within the community being studied over a extended period of time?