Ethnic Studies
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Course Introduction
Ethnic Studies is an interdisciplinary course that examines the historical, social, political, and cultural experiences of diverse ethnic and racial groups. The course explores concepts such as identity, power dynamics, systemic inequality, and resistance, drawing from history, literature, sociology, and other fields to provide students with a deeper understanding of the complexities of race and ethnicity in society. Through critical analysis, students will engage with a variety of perspectives, develop cultural competency, and gain the tools needed to understand and address issues related to diversity, inclusion, and social justice in both local and global contexts.
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Diversity in Families 10th Edition by Maxine Baca Zinn
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Chapter 1: Images,Ideals,and Myths
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Q1) Which of the following is not likely to be a trend among new American families in the near future?
A) an increase in the percentage of families of color
B) major involvement with government institutions
C) an increase in families with a semi-extended family form
D) rapid economic advancement
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is a component of a macro level analysis of families?
A) a focus on internal dynamics of nuclear families
B) a focus on the ways structures such as race, class, and gender shape families
C) a focus on relationships in extended families
D) none of the above
Answer: B
Q3) The authors of the text report that the key factor(s) producing different realities for members of the same family household is (are)
A) gender and age.
B) level of education.
C) age and occupation.
D) an authoritarian parenting style.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Preindustrial Families and the Emergence of a Modern Family Form
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Q1) All of the following were functional roles of the colonial family except
A) family as school.
B) family as church.
C) family as encumbrance.
D) family as house of correction.
Answer: C
Q2) With the transition to the wage economy,households began to incorporate a variety of non-kin members.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) An example of community intervention into family matters wherein wayward individuals were subject to public ridicule and punishment is
A) the mystification.
B) the primogeniture.
C) the charivari.
D) the familial time.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The Historical Making of Family Diversity
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Q1) According to Herbert Gutman's revisionist account of Black families during slavery
A) two-parent households were extremely uncommon both during slavery and after emancipation.
B) the major reason for family break-up during slavery was forced separation through sale.
C) as a cultural institution, the family was essentially destroyed by the abuses of slavery.
D) all of the above
Answer: B
Q2) The earnings of workers of color
A) were based on the principle of the "family wage."
B) tended to assume that not only would men work, but also women and children.
C) were based on the higher cost of living forced on people of color.
D) were based on the idea that these workers were poor at managing money.
Answer: B
Q3) Social reproduction refers to the work of caring for families in the home.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Families and the New Economic Realities
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Q1) Which of the following has become a common way for employers to reduce their health care costs?
A) using greater numbers of independent contractors
B) raising wages so employees can purchase their own health insurance
C) reducing deductibles
D) allowing employees to get union health benefits
Q2) During the Great Recession,the value of the average home plummeted by more than
A) 10%.
B) 20%.
C) 30%.
D) 50%.
Q3) Unemployment rates are higher among
A) women than among men.
B) college-educated workers than among high-school-educated workers.
C) African Americans than among Latinos.
D) whites than among Latinos.
Q4) Real wages reached only reached their peak recently.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Families and Demographic Trends: the New
Immigration and the Aging of Society
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Q1) These types of families consist of both undocumented immigrants and U.S.citizens or legal residents.
A) binational
B) transnational
C) multinational
D) trinational
Q2) Which is true of the elderly immigrant in the United States?
A) They are poor.
B) They do not speak English.
C) They often provide child care for the family.
D) all of the above
Q3) Retreating from relationships,organizations,and society is known as A) disengagement.
B) release.
C) withdrawal.
D) none of the above
Q4) Asian American families are strictly patriarchal.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Class,Race,and Gender
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Q1) What is the relationship between the working class and their extended families?
A) Working-class families are autonomous and do not depend on family support.
B) Working-class families depend on extended families for social support and financial assistance.
C) Black working-class families depend on extended family financial support, but White working-class families do not.
D) Working-class families are likely to share living space with extended family members and pool financial resources.
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) Gender-based inequality creates different conditions for women and men even within the same family.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Distinguish between public and private patriarchy,giving examples of male privilege in each.
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Chapter 7: Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family
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Q1) "Sequencing" life events is a coping strategy often used by women to minimize the conflicting demands of work and family roles.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which state was the first to offer paid family leave?
A) New York
B) California
C) Massachusetts
D) Florida
Q3) Outline the range of family-supportive policies implemented by U.S.employers.How adequate are these supports in meeting family needs?
Q4) Hochschild found that women's "second shift" activities in the home add up to A) fewer hours than men spend in maintaining yards and household machines.
B) more time than full-time homemakers spend on domestic activities.
C) the delegation of work to husbands and children.
D) an extra month of work each year.
Q5) Discuss the new demand for adolescent workers.What has caused that demand? How do adolescents use their earnings?
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Chapter 8: The Social Construction of Intimacy
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Q1) Discuss variation in teen childbirth rates in the United States.What social factors contribute to the high rate of teen pregnancy in the African American population?
Q2) Human sexuality is strictly a biological drive.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Economic and social changes over the history of the United States have
A) increased the individual's need for intimate relationships.
B) increased men's need for the romantic aspects of intimate relationships.
C) had no visible effect on intimate relationships.
D) made intimate relationships an encumbrance.
Q4) The double standard that men can be more sexually competent than women
A) perpetuates sexual ignorance.
B) prevents men from seeking help for sexual problems.
C) prevents many men from discussing sex with their partners.
D) all of the above
Q5) Discuss the idea of "gendered love and sex." Compare men's and women's patterns of expectations and experiences related to both love and sex.
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Chapter 9: Contemporary Marriages
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Q1) The loss of high-wage manufacturing jobs has led to a decrease in family power for many men.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The text concludes which of the following about the future of marriage?
A) Marriage is a dying institution.
B) It is quite likely that the Religious Right will reestablish the dominance of traditional marriage in the United States.
C) Marriage is changing because "family values" are no longer important in this society.
D) Marriage is changing because the social conditions have changed markedly.
Q3) Marital satisfaction is reported to be the highest during the years when a couple's children are in school.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Over the past three decades,the median age of first marriage in the United States has gone up for men,but has fallen for women.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Parents and Children
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Q1) John and Jane Smith are a middle-income couple who became parents in 2005.According to U.S.government estimates,approximately how much will they spend to raise their child to the age of 17?
A) $50,000
B) $80,000
C) $227,000
D) $240,000
Q2) How do the costs and benefits of having children differ between high and low socioeconomic status groups?
Q3) Latinas are the racial-ethnic group with the highest fertility rate.
A)True
B)False
Q4) All of the following are benefits of parenthood except
A) a child may give the lives of parents meaning and purpose.
B) improved financial stability for all family members.
C) symbolic immortality.
D) enhanced status of parents among kin, colleagues, and the community.
Q5) The majority of U.S.mothers with school-age children are in the paid workforce.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Violence in Families
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Q1) New efforts are underway to prevent and detect elder abuse through routine screening by
A) family members.
B) social workers.
C) neighbors.
D) medical doctors.
Q2) Which of the following may explain the higher rates of spouse abuse for people of color?
A) Cultural norms may support the use of coercive power in some groups.
B) People of color are more likely to experience economic hardship.
C) As a result of institutional racism, minorities may be more likely to be labeled as abusers.
D) all of the above
Q3) How do the norms of family privacy contribute to the proliferation of family violence?
Q4) The battered women's shelter movement emerged from the concerns of the Religious Right.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Divorce and Remarriage
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Q1) What percent of remarriages have a child of their own within the first two years?
A) 15%
B) 25%
C) 50%
D) 75%
Q2) Which of the following factors allows for the prediction of a higher divorce rate in the future?
A) cultural acceptance for divorce
B) the long-term consequences of increased life expectancy
C) structural transformation of the economy
D) all of the above
Q3) In states where same-sex marriage is not legal,same-sex couples who decide to end their relationship
A) have the same property rights as a married couple who divorces.
B) have the same right to spousal support as a legally-divorced couple.
C) have the same child custody rights as a married couple who divorces.
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) In Trimberger's research on a "new single woman," she found these women
A) have work that is financially satisfying, but not personally satisfying.
B) tend to be insecure about their sexuality.
C) formed ties to young people through friends and family.
D) usually relied on religious community for their main source of support.
Q2) Which of the following is not cited in the text as an important factor in the increasing proportion of singles in the United States?
A) a large increase in the percentage of homosexual individuals
B) women's growing economic independence
C) higher levels of education for women
D) With industrialization, single individuals had the opportunity to live away from home and earn wages independent from their families.
Q3) The situation in which the number of single women relative to single men increases with age is referred to as
A) reconstituted family options.
B) the marriage squeeze.
C) the mating gradient.
D) the manifest function of singlehood.
Q4) Discuss the factors that explain the increase in heterosexual cohabitation.
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Chapter 14: Family Policy for the Twenty-First Century
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Q1) Head Start serves most of the children who are eligible for this program.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Progressives identify which of the following as major influences on families today?
A) economic problems
B) the trend away from rigid gender-based roles
C) a crisis in care-giving among different generations
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
Q3) Women encounter which obstacle when they use federally mandated leaves from employment?
A) co-worker resentment
B) Women's commitment to their work is questioned.
C) management promotion of more reliable male workers
D) all of the above
Q4) The 1996 Welfare Act placed a five-year lifetime limit on welfare receipt.
A)True
B)False
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