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What is commentary research?
A type of research unique to the social sciences. It expresses personal observations, views, and opinions, More detailed to be persuasive. Not scientific. Can drive discussion that leads to new understanding.
What is a retrospective design?
A type of developmental design that tries to reconstruct the past based on memory.
What is consanguinity?
blood ties in family
What is patrilineal descent?
traces kinship through the men.
What is marriage?
A socially approved/legal relationship usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity, and childbearing.
What are the steps in the scientific method?
1. Define the problem.
2. Review the literature.
3. Form a testable hypothesis.
4. Research design, data collection.
5. Conclusion - ideas for further research.
What are the three key elements of an experimental design?
1. Control of the research variable.
2. Random selection and assignment into control and experimental groups.
3. Comparison of pre-test and post-test scores.
What is conjugality?
marriage ties to create family.
What is matrilineal descent?
traces kinship through the women.
What's the difference between homogamy and heterogamy?
Homogamy is when the partners are similar in significant social characteristics, while heterogamy is when partners are dissimilar in significant social characeristics.
What is an archival/secondary analysis?
Analysis of existing data that people create and leave behind, such as birth, marriage, school, and medical records, or census data.
What is Observation?
Using the senses to collect data on a subject, by watching them and writing down the findings.
What is affinity?
traces family by customs/laws.
What is bilateral descent?
traces kinship through both men and women.
What's the difference between hypogamy and hypergamy?
Hypogamy is marrying to a lower socio-economic level, while hypergamy is marrying higher.
What is a cross-sectional design?
What are the three things needed for a scientific survey?
1. Sampling Frame - a document of names and contact information of the entire population that is being studied.
2. Sample - small group selected from the larger population to be studied.
3. Random selection of sample - so that each individual has equal chance at selection.
What two universal principals of family membership are used to define family as a unit of social organization?
bloodline OR marriage.
What is endogamy?
The group requires partners to be selected from within the group or social category.
What's the difference between polygyny and polyandry?
Polygyny is a man having multiple wives at the same time, polyandry is a woman having multiple husbands at the same time.
What is a longitudinal design?
A type of developmental design that studies an event/subject over a long period of time, taking measurements intermittently.
What is the government's definition of family?
What is an egalitarian family?
A family where decision making power is shared equally between the man and the woman.
What is exogamy?
Requires partners to be selected from outside the group or social category (typically families).
Patrilocal - lives with husband's family
Matrilocal - lives with the wife's family
Neolocal - lives away from both sets of parents.