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What is the purpose of the family?
What is the purpose of the family?
- To maintain social order (correct)
- To participate in the community
- To offer safety as members mature
- To provide predictability and structure
How do anthropologists classify most family organizations?
How do anthropologists classify most family organizations?
- Maternal, paternal, conjugal, avuncular, or extended
- Matrifocal, patrifocal, conjugal, avuncular, or extended
- Maternal, paternal, nuclear, avuncular, or extended
- Matrifocal, patrifocal, nuclear, avuncular, or extended (correct)
What does the field of genealogy aim to do?
What does the field of genealogy aim to do?
- Study the economic unit of the family
- Maintain social order
- Classify family organizations
- Trace family lineages through history (correct)
What are the two main types of family relationships mentioned in the text?
What are the two main types of family relationships mentioned in the text?
What are the three characteristics that families ideally offer?
What are the three characteristics that families ideally offer?