Question

According to sociologist Judy Root Aulette, "families we choose" include blood ties and legal ties, but they also include __________, persons who are not actually related by blood but who are accepted as family members.a.informal kinb.secondary kinc.fictive kind.generalized kin

Answer 1

Answer: Option (C) is correct i.e. Fictive kin

Explanation:

Fictive Kin is referred to as a term that is used to describe an individuals who are not related by either marriage or birth, but tend to have emotionally important relationship with other individual which would develop characteristics of relationship that of a family.  It is referred as a terminology which is used by ethnographers and anthropologists in order to describe the forms of social ties or kinship which are neither based on consanguineal nor affinal ties.

Answer 2

Answer:

c. fictive kin

Explanation:

The concept of fictive kin is explained by sociologists as a form of the extended family members in which the members are not related by either marriage or by blood. The bond of acceptance and ties may come from close friendship ties, religious rituals or other economic or social relationships.

Hence, they include fictive kin .