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Understanding Political Science and Family Dynamics

Test your knowledge of political science concepts and family dynamics with our comprehensive 81-question quiz! This quiz will challenge your understanding of political theories, government types, and kinship systems in a structured way.

Key Features:

Wide range of questions covering political systems and family structures
In-depth exploration of key terms and concepts
Suitable for students, educators, and anyone interested in political science

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Political science - comes from two Greek words:

Deיִned its discipline as “the study of governments, public policies and political processes, systems, and political behavior” (2013).

Examines the contemporary application of political concepts such as human rights, equality, peace, and justice.

Is a branch of political science that aims to provide context to the differences in government and political systems

The study of state-to-state relations and the wider margin of the impacts of globalization and climate change such as terrorism, piracy, and democratization of non-Western territories fall into the category of international relations.

This יִeld covers the attitudes, knowledge, and actions of an individual in response to political variables such as policies created by the government, behavior of politicians, and general political environment.

This יִeld inquires on the types of governmental policies and the underlying motivations for their enactment and implementation.

This branch examines the various administrative schemes implemented by government ofיִcials.

Pervades all of its subdisciplines as they all address contemporary issues on politics, ethics, and governance.

Consists of the historical, social, and economic conditions of the society that affects the types of policies accepted and declined by the electorate.

This refers to the forms of political events or products that are needed by society from its government.

This is a category of Input where it refers to the perceived needs of the population that could better their lives. This may include better wages, equality in the workplace, and lowered taxes, to name a few.

This is a category of Input where it refers to mechanisms within the system that would allow for such demands to be facilitated.

Acts like a black box through which every form of demand is sifted and decided upon.

The decision of the government toward an input. This includes policies, rules, laws, regulations, and projects.

Whichever the government decides on, opinions and responses would be made by the affected sectors.

What is the complete name of this?

Refers to the “web of social relationships” that humans form as part of a family, which is the smallest unit of society.

They defined family as “a social and economic unit that consists of one or more parents and their children.” There are several points that you can learn from this definition.

The primary socioeconomic unit wherein an individual learns his or her social roles.

Is involved in two types of families

This type of kinship links individuals based on their genetic relations.

This allows an individual to be affiliated to the descent of one sex group only—either the male or the female.

Leads an individual to trace kinship relations through the female’s line.

An individual traces his or her kinship through the male’s line only.

An expansion of unilineal descent groups. This type of kinship is observed among groups of people who believe that they have unilineal relations based on a common ancestor.

Further expansion of clans into larger descent groups.

Differs from a phratry in its function of creating a sustainable systemic balance within a society.

Allows an individual to trace kinship ties on both sides of the family.

Is defined as the “socially or ritually recognized union or legal contract between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between them, between them and their children, and between them and their in-laws”.

Two types of Marriage:

Inside marriage

Outside marriage

A type of family based on marriage system that the Father takes role.

A type of family based on marriage system that the Mother takes role.

This type of family consists of a single couple and their child or children.

This type of family consists of several parents and their children.

Is a marriage pattern wherein a woman is allowed to marry several men.

Is a marriage practice that allows a man to marry several women.

This type of family has several married couples and their children living in one household.

In this type of family, the current spouses were previously married and had children.

Is any entity that is participating in a political process.

This society is chiefly based on foraging, which is also known as hunting and gathering. It is the least complex form of political organization, typically consists of 20–50 individuals who are usually related to one another by virtue of kinship.

This type of kinship relation is marked by loyalty per family cluster or segment. Less mobile than bands, as their form of economic subsistence requires a degree of settlement. Is a political organization that consists of segmentary lineages.

It embodied its characteristics that include a political leader with an advisory council, a leader who exercises power that is based on legitimacy, and the existence of social stratification. More Complex than a tribe.

Refers to a group of people sharing similar culture and political history.

Refers to a political organization united by a common set of laws.

A moral or legal entitlement to have or obtain something to act.

Expected to be enjoyed by all individuals regardless the citizenship.

Awarded to individual by the state a part of its culture tradition, and norms.

Is achieved by a leader through the process of following established codes and procedures governing the allocation and distribution of power and resources within a society.

Is a form of leadership legitimacy that highlights the right of a leader to rule based on inheritance of the title.

Creates a type of leadership that is based on the personal attachment of the subordinates to the ruler whose characteristics, experiences, or even skills are believed to be extraordinary, or maybe even supernatural.

Is a combination of charismatic and legal authority.

Is a combination of traditional and charismatic authority.

This economic process entails the exchange of commodities between parties, often on an individual basis.

Gift giving without any expectation of immediate return

Expecting immediate return from any given favor. The value of the commodities is expected to be equal.

The exchange tends to favor one party over the other, as the value of goods for exchange is unequal.

When resources from one individual or organization are given to another with no expectation of return.

Occurs when the resources of one, several individuals, or groups are collected and distributed proportionally or equally to participating members.

Exchange of goods and services that involves buying and selling.

Involves all the human actions associated with economic aspects.

One of the most ancient types of subsistence pattern.

Hunting and gathering on foot was the simplest way of living and survival. Mostly Occupies riversides, valleys, and grasslands.

Hunted large mammals while on horseback, which served as their mode of transportation.

Hunted Aquatic animals such as fish, mollusks, and other marine animals.

Is a subsistence pattern that is primarily focused on “tending herds of large animals”.

Have similarities with the way of life of foragers because of temporary settlements.

Are not dependent on their animals for food.

Is a combination of small-scale farming and domesticating animals for the purpose of food and prestige.

Slash-and-burn planting method.

Most large-scale societies are dependent on agriculture as their primary mode of economic subsistence.

The woman is expected to transfer to the residence of her husband’s father.

The man is expected to take residence with his wife’s mother’s area, where they are expected to raise their children and integrate them to the maternal line, creating a matrilineal descent.

This is an arrangement that requires both spouses to leave their households and create their own at times even in a different locality.

This is a complex residency pattern as it requires two residence transfers.

This arrangement allows both spouses to remain with their own households after marriage.

This type of residency rule arises when the father is economically and physically unable to provide support for the family, thereby ascribing the role of sole provider and caregiver to the woman.

This type of residence pattern allows the couple to choose to live either with the wife’s mother’s area or the husband’s father’s area

This creates transnational families or families whose members reside separately across territories.

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