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Course Introduction
Cultural Anthropology explores the diversity of human societies and cultures around the world, examining how people live, think, and interact within their social environments. The course introduces key anthropological concepts such as culture, language, kinship, economic systems, religion, and social organization. Through ethnographic case studies and comparative analysis, students learn to critically analyze cultural practices, beliefs, and values, developing a deeper appreciation for the complexity of global human experience and the importance of understanding cultural differences in an increasingly interconnected world.
Recommended Textbook Diversity in Families 10th Edition by
Maxine Baca Zinn
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Chapter 1: Images,Ideals,and Myths
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Q1) The field of family studies has experienced very little change over the past thirty years.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The definitions of the terms "household" and "family" are nearly identical.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Using sociologist Erving Goffman's term "backstage area" to describe family points to the idea that
A) family is a haven in a heartless world.
B) family members are always acting out social roles.
C) family is an area of privacy where people are free to act in ways they would not act in public.
D) family is completely severed from public intervention.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Preindustrial Families and the Emergence of a Modern Family Form
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Q1) Which of the following accurately describes family life in colonial America?
A) Sharp boundaries existed between family and community life.
B) Family privacy was complete-communities did not get involved in family matters.
C) Men, women, and children worked in a household enterprise to ensure family survival.
D) all of the above
Answer: C
Q2) The technique used by family historians whereby several historical documents are used to create a composite picture is called
A) content analysis.
B) record linkage.
C) multiple regression.
D) variable analysis.
Answer: B
Q3) The wage economy greatly increased women's access to productive work.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Historical Making of Family Diversity
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Q1) The historical circumstances of European immigration are very similar to those of Chicano immigration.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Two large-scale waves of immigration to the United States occurred between 1830 and 1930.Immigrants were primarily from what region?
A) Europe
B) Latin America
C) Asia
D) approximately equally divided between Europe and Latin America
Answer: A
Q3) The family-wage economy is a system in which
A) the entire family is involved in production within the home.
B) the family is dependent on wages earned outside the home.
C) extended families pool resources to establish jointly owned commercial establishments.
D) none of the above
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Families and the New Economic Realities
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Q1) All of the following are forms of capital flight except A) mergers.
B) overseas investment.
C) pay concessions from workers.
D) plant relocation within the United States.
Q2) Manufacturing employment in the United States
A) increased throughout the 20 century.
B) has declined since 2000.
C) still accounts for more than half of all jobs.
D) was associated with low wages and poor benefits.
Q3) Which of the following was a result of the Great Recession in term of marriage?
A) Couples married earlier.
B) Couples cohabited less.
C) Couples married later.
D) Fewer couples got divorced.
Q4) The postmodern form of family life is new to the poor.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the coping strategies families use to adapt to higher costs and lower pay.
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Chapter 5: Families and Demographic Trends: the New
Immigration and the Aging of Society
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Q1) This is a three-generation household where parents care for their parents and their children.
A) Beanpole family structure
B) Baby boomer family structure
C) Sandwich family structure
D) Gen X family structure
Q2) More than one-half of all children in the United States are non-White.
A)True
B)False
Q3) As a result of a large influx of immigrants,Whites are now a numerical minority in the state of California.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is true of Social Security?
A) All elderly recipients receive the same level of benefits.
B) Individuals with higher lifetime earnings receive higher Social Security benefits.
C) Individuals with lower lifetime earnings receive higher Social Security benefits.
D) All elderly Americans receive Social Security benefits.
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Chapter 6: Class,Race,and Gender
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Q1) Referring to Asian-Americans as the "model minority"
A) ignores the ethnic diversity within this group.
B) is based on statistics showing nearly all Asian-Americans are very successful.
C) is based on the low level of discrimination experienced by Asian-Americans in the past.
D) is based on the fact that Asian-Americans are recent immigrants.
Q2) The concept of public patriarchy refers to
A) male dominance of the institutions of the larger society.
B) male dominance in extended family relations.
C) a husband's domination of his wife in a public place.
D) societies in which patriarchy is enforced through the legal system.
Q3) Distinguish between public and private patriarchy,giving examples of male privilege in each.
Q4) Structural approaches to family diversity suggest that working class families and lower class families are neither disorganized nor deficient.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family
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Q1) The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 is the only national legislation concerned with family leave following the birth of a child.This legislation provides which of the following:
A) Employers of 50 or more persons must provide 12 weeks of unpaid leave.
B) Employers of 50 or more persons must provide 12 weeks of paid leave.
C) All employers must provide 12 weeks of unpaid leave.
D) All employers must provide 12 weeks of paid leave.
Q2) Less than ten percent of U.S.families have a breadwinner husband and a homemaker wife.
A)True B)False
Q3) Economic restructuring has resulted in both too-long and too-short work weeks. A)True B)False
Q4) Outline the range of family-supportive policies implemented by U.S.employers.How adequate are these supports in meeting family needs?
Q5) Discuss the gendered nature of labor in the household.What are some of the conclusions the text draws from studies of household labor?
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Chapter 8: The Social Construction of Intimacy
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Q1) The text's approach to the subject of intimacy assumes which of the following?
A) Interpersonal communication should be the focus of the study of intimacy.
B) Because the experience of intimacy is highly personal, social forces have little to do with this subject.
C) Macro level forces and cultural ideals shape our experience of intimacy.
D) Intimate behaviors are unchanging over time.
Q2) According to the text,confusion in contemporary male-female relationships is often a result of
A) prolonged adolescence.
B) the emergence of dating.
C) differences between traditional standards and new more egalitarian expectations.
D) loss of parental control over mate selection.
Q3) In the premodern United States,the courtship and mate selection process for young people was controlled by A) organized religion.
B) the young people themselves.
C) parents and kin.
D) states' legal systems.
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Chapter 9: Contemporary Marriages
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Q1) What percent of U.S.households fit the model of the father as the sole breadwinner?
A) 2%
B) 7%
C) 10%
D) 25%
Q2) Approximately ten percent of cohabiting heterosexual couples eventually marry each other.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Devitalized marriages are centered around conflict and arguments.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Schwartz identifies a new type of marriage relationship characterized by equality,equity,and friendship as
A) "assortive mating."
B) "passive congenial marriage."
C) "peer marriage."
D) "feminist marriage."
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Chapter 10: Parents and Children
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Q1) The number of children in a family is
A) negatively related to intellectual outcomes for children. Children from small families score higher on intelligence tests than children from large families.
B) usually greater in families with well-educated spouses.
C) insignificant in determining marital satisfaction of parents.
D) all of the above
Q2) Latinas are the racial-ethnic group with the highest fertility rate.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to recent research,the percent of childless women
A) is correlated with the rising incidence of poverty.
B) has increased in recent years.
C) has declined in recent years.
D) depends primarily on conscious choices made before marriage.
Q4) The approximate percentage of families headed by a single parent is A) 13%.
B) 25%.
C) 55%.
D) none of the above
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Chapter 11: Violence in Families
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Q1) Victims of incest often suffer serious effects well into adulthood.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Research shows that which of the following fears are serious concerns in a woman's decision to leave an abusive situation?
A) fear of being alone
B) fear of not being able to survive without a partner
C) fear of the violent partner
D) all of the above
Q3) The term "intimate partner violence" arose in response to
A) the rise in concern about emotional abuse.
B) the increasing attention to incest.
C) seeing violence as a criminal problem rather than a health problem.
D) the increasing attention to violence among cohabiters, dating couples, and same-sex couples.
Q4) Experts believe most parents who abuse their children have severe personality disorders.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Divorce and Remarriage
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Q1) Which of the following explains this relationship: the older a woman is at the time of divorce,the lower her chances of remarriage.
A) Men have shorter life expectancies, so the pool of eligible men shrinks as women age.
B) As women age, they are viewed as much less desirable partners.
C) Divorced men tend to marry women several years younger than themselves.
D) all of the above
Q2) There are no significant differences in the divorce rate across racial and ethnic groups in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q3) An important factor in remarried couples' difficulties is
A) most remarried couples are not sufficiently committed to marriage.
B) society does not provide guidelines for managing the problems remarried couples face.
C) younger children are not willing to consider the stepparent a "real" parent.
D) none of the above
Q4) How do rates and patterns of remarriage differ by gender?
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Chapter 13: Emergent Families in the Global Era
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Q1) Gay and lesbian couples have which of the following legal benefits?
A) coverage under their partner's health plan
B) rights of inheritance and community property
C) survivor's benefits under their partner's pension
D) none of the above
Q2) The proportion of the U.S.population living in alternative domestic arrangements has increased markedly.Discuss the social and structural factors that have contributed to this increase.
Q3) Commuter marriages are largely the result of women's increased entry into professional employment.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following describes Weston's study of gays and lesbians in San Francisco?
A) Weston used random sampling techniques to select her sample.
B) This study focused on the family lives of gay and lesbian political activists.
C) Weston used friendship pyramiding and snowball sampling to achieve a sample that varied by race and class.
D) Weston's research used a combination of focus groups and a telephone survey.
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Chapter 14: Family Policy for the Twenty-First Century
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Q1) The public policy issues especially relevant to working parents are parental leave and child care.Discuss the ways in which government has addressed these issues,as well as the adequacy or inadequacy of government measures.How does the United States compare to other developed countries on these issues?
Q2) The term "extreme poverty" refers to A) inter-generational poverty.
B) families who have been poor for more than five years.
C) welfare dependence.
D) families with incomes less than half the poverty threshold.
Q3) Which of the following is consistent with the conservative ideology of the family?
A) Recent family change is attributable to structural conditions.
B) The organization of family is based on essential biological differences between women and men.
C) Women, in the exercise of their individual freedom, may choose full-time paid employment or unpaid work at home.
D) none of the above
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