1 Foundations of Kinship Online Quiz Questions

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Only people with a genetic connection can be recognized as the child’s parents.

Local recognition and practice can establish parent relationships and responsibilities apart from genetic connection.

A child’s relationships can be determined only by drawing a genealogy.

Recognized parent relationships are identical in every society.

Observe everyday interactions and caregiving over time.

Treat one person’s account as the definitive description of the whole community.

Ask people how they describe relationships and responsibilities.

Compare kinship terms with patterns of care and interaction.

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Use the first interview as the definitive account of the community.

Assume everyone in a community uses the same categories in the same way.

Compare accounts across generations, households, or institutions.

Replace participants’ explanations with a fixed biological classification.

Researchers can examine how biological and social dimensions interact in a particular setting.

Genetic evidence may identify ancestry without determining who a community considers a parent.

Social recognition is irrelevant whenever genetic evidence is available.

The meanings given to birth, caregiving, and ancestry can vary across contexts.

Assume the word has the same meaning in every setting.

Ask who uses the word, in what circumstances, and what responsibilities accompany it.

Treat the word as a complete map of the relationships involved.

Replace the term with a biological label without asking participants.

Biological relatedness concerns caregiving, while social kinship concerns ancestry.

Biological relatedness concerns reproduction and ancestry, while social kinship concerns recognized and meaningful relationships.

Biological relatedness and social kinship are interchangeable terms for genetic connections.

Social kinship is determined by genetic evidence, while biological relatedness is determined by community rules.

Use genetic testing to determine who provides care, then avoid asking participants about their views.

Use one interview to establish the definitive account of every relationship in the community.

Observe everyday care and recognition over time, and ask participants how they describe relationships and responsibilities.

Record kinship terms but do not examine how people use them in practice.

Investigate who uses the term, in which circumstances, and what rights or obligations accompany it.

Assume the term has the same meaning for everyone who uses it.

Treat the term as a complete map of biological relationships.

Ignore the term and rely only on a relationship diagram.

Consanguineal describes relationships formed through marriage, and affinal describes relationships through birth or descent.

Consanguineal describes relationships understood through birth or descent, and affinal describes relationships established through marriage.

Consanguineal and affinal distinguish relationships with obligations from those without obligations.

Consanguineal and affinal are universal categories that every society uses in the same way.

Select the longest interview as the community’s definitive account.

Treat a relationship diagram as proof that all participants share one view.

Assume that people in the same community use kinship categories consistently.

Compare accounts across people and settings, noting where understandings differ.