Like Bifurcate Merging Kinship Terminology,generational Kinship Terminology

question 20

Multiple Choice

Like bifurcate merging kinship terminology,generational kinship terminology

• A) is common in North America.
• B) makes sense only from the perspective of ego.
• C) illustrates the complicated ways in which adults confuse their children about the realities of biology.
• D) uses the same term for parents and their siblings, but lumping is more complete (there are only two terms for the parental generation).
• E) uses the same term for parents and grandparents, so there is less lumping than in the bifurcate merging kinship system.

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