Family Dynamics
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Course Introduction
Family Dynamics explores the patterns, processes, and roles within family systems, examining how individuals interact, communicate, and influence one another throughout the life cycle. The course covers diverse family structures, cultural contexts, and theoretical frameworks that explain family functioning, along with the impact of factors such as parenting styles, conflict resolution, life transitions, and external stressors. Through case studies and practical analysis, students gain insight into how families adapt to change, maintain stability, and foster individual growth.
Recommended Textbook Families and their Social Worlds 2nd Edition by
Karen T. Seccombe
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Chapter 1: Families and the Sociological Imagination
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Q1) A major sphere of social life, with a set of beliefs and rules that is organized to meet some basic human need, such as the family, political, or educational system is called a
Answer: social institution
Q2) A theory is defined as:
Answer: a general framework, explanation, or tool to understand and describe the real world.
Q3) Which theory examines how individuals' lives change as they pass through the events in their lives, recognizing that many changes are socially produced and shared among a cohort of people?
Answer: Life course perspective
Q4) A number of changes in families have taken place over the past several decades. These changes include:
A)both men and women are postponing the age of marriage
B)the percentage of persons who have never married has increased significantly
C)the divorce rate has increased
D)Blacks are the largest minority group in the United States
E)the teenage birthrate is increasing rapidly, especially among Blacks
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Families Throughout the World: Marriage, Family, and Kinship
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Q1) The universal functions of the family include these seven (7)features:
Answer: (1)marriage; (2)regulation of sexual behavior; (3)reproduction and socializing children; (4)property and inheritance; (5)economic cooperation; (6)social placement, status, and roles; (7)care, warmth, protection, and intimacy
Q2) The incest taboo, which forbids sexual activity and marriage among close family members, is found in about half of all societies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The process of social and cultural transformation from a "third world" or a nonindustrialized society to a developed industrial society is called:
A)matrilocal
B)matriarchy
C)modernization
D)ascribed status
E)roles
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Families Throughout History
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Q1) What type(s)of societies emphasized extended families, according to Table 3.1?
Answer: horticultural; agricultural
Q2) ________ transformed an economy from a system based on small family-based agriculture to one based on large industrial capital.
A)Immigration
B)Class ideology
C)Industrialization
D)Compadres
E)Subsistence
Answer: C
Q3) Fathers in early European families divided their land equally among all their sons, which is called primogeniture.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Bundling is defined as:
Answer: a dating practice in colonial America in which a young man and woman could continue their date by staying warm and spending the night in bed together, but separated by a wooden board.
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Chapter 4: Sex, Gender, and Families
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Q1) __________ refers to the vaginal lips and the clitoris being cut or scraped away from a girl's body.
Q2) We learn the culturally and socially prescribed traits associated with masculine or feminine patterns of behavior, indicating that gender is ________.
Q3) Contraceptive use is rare in many developing nations, but _________ is a notable exception.
A)Chad
B)Ethiopia
C)China
D)the United States
E)England
Q4) Female genital cutting or mutilation:
A)has occurred among nearly 20 million women and girls around the world
B)was done by a doctor in about half of cases, according to a study of 2,000 women living in Egypt
C)is the equivalent of male circumcision
D)in countries where practiced, has widespread support among women
E)continues because it is deeply rooted in religious customs
Q5) Describe the five (5)sources of gender socialization discussed in your text.
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Chapter 5: Social Stratification, Social Class, and Families
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Q1) Describe the pathways from poverty to adverse child outcomes.
Q2) Tosha and her husband both work, but their combined income is only $29,000. They have one child, and making ends meet is a struggle. H & R Block, which is helping them file their taxes this year, suggests that they should file for a/an:
A) Medicaid Tax Refund (MTR)
B) Earnings Ratio Benefit (ERB)
C)Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
D)National Health Insurance (NHI)Account
E) Home Tax Credit (HOME)
Q3) There is little substantial upward mobility in the U.S., and most of what does exist occurs among the highest income levels.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List the four (4)theories that have been offered to explain the nature of poverty.
Q5) Describe how social class is conceptualized in Great Britain, and the health differences across social class boundaries.
Q6) The federal tax credit for low-income working families is called the _________.
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Chapter 6: Race, Ethnicity, and Families
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Q1) Most Native Americans identify themselves as belonging to a specific tribe.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The largest percentage of Hispanics in the U.S. comes from which country or region?
A)Mexico
B)Puerto Rico
C)Cuba
D)Spain
E)South America
Q3) The largest number of immigrants in America today comes from:
A)Central America and Europe
B)Europe and Asia
C)Canada and Europe
D)Central America and Asia
E)South America and Russia
Q4) Early nineteenth-century biologists created a three-part classification of races, which were ________.
Q5) College attendance is increasing, particularly among Black ________.
Q6) Where do Asian Americans tend to live in the U.S.?
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Chapter 7: Courtship, Intimacy, and Partnering
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Q1) The relationship between cohabitation and divorce may be explained by the fact that the type of person who cohabits may be the same type of person who would willingly end an unhappy marriage. This is referred to as a/an ________.
Q2) List 3 (three)differences between same-sex couples and heterosexual couples.
Q3) How do sexual scripts vary by race, ethnicity, social class, and sex?
A)Whites are less likely to engage in oral sex than are Blacks.
B)"Good" girls are expected to plan in advance and bring contraceptives with them.
C)Middle-class Black women have difficulty "marrying up" because young Black women have made far greater gains in education than have men their ages.
D)Hispanics no longer value virginity any more than do other racial or ethnic groups.
E)Whites are less likely to engage in oral sex than are Hispanics.
Q4) Compared to those who are married, people who cohabit:
A)tend to be older
B)have less education on average
C)are less likely to be employed, and when employed, earn less money
D)are more likely to have graduated from college
E)are more likely to have children living with them
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Chapter 8: Marriage: a Personal Relationship and Social Institution
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Q1) Antimiscegenation laws were meant to:
A)repay Japanese Americans for their internment during World War II
B)maintain the power and privilege of Whites and to uphold widely held beliefs about racial purity
C)prohibit child marriages
D)provide an avenue for women to file for divorce from their husbands when it was otherwise illegal to do so
E)allow gays and lesbians to wed
Q2) When Jeff's wife died unexpectedly, leaving him to care for his two school-aged sons by himself, his parents-in-law stepped in to provide a lot of help to him. They took care of the boys after school until Jeff returned home from work, and they usually brought dinner over at least once a week. This is an example of
A)capital caring
B)antimiscegenation capital
C)social capital
D)capital resilience
E)human capital
Q3) The main purpose of ________ was to prevent marriage between Whites and individuals considered non-White.
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Chapter 9: Becoming a Parent
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Q1) Birthrates in the U.S. have dropped significantly since 2000, and are at an all-time low.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Infertility is the inability to get pregnant after one year of trying.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to Figure 9.1, the U.S. fertility rate dropped dramatically during two periods in history. What periods were these?
A)1920-1935; 1985-2000
B)1940-1950; 1970-1980
C)1930-1945; 1990-2004
D)1920-1935; 1960-1975
E)1960-1975; 1990-2004
Q4) List two (2)social reasons for delayed parenthood.
Q5) China's one-child policy program consists of three (3)main components. These are
Q6) What is expected of a "good mother" in our society? How does it compare with what is expected of a "good woman"?
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Chapter 10: Raising Children
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Q1) Juanita, a Hispanic mother, feels strongly that she must teach her children about their cultural heritage, about the prejudice and discrimination they are likely to encounter, and provide her children with the coping skills necessary to deal with these issues and maintain a strong and healthy self-image. This is referred to as:
A)prejudicial socialization
B)anticipatory socialization
C)minority-based socialization
D)racial socialization
E)discrimination-based socialization
Q2) There are many consequences associated with teenage parenthood. List five specific consequences discussed in the text.
Q3) Charles Horton Cooley and George Herbert Mead identified four (4)stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor intelligence, open operational thought, concrete operational thought, and formal operational thought.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Compare and contrast "mothering" and "fathering" both as an identity and an activity.
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Chapter 11: Families and the Work They Do
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Q1) Given the challenges of combining work and family, a growing majority of mothers report that they would prefer to work part-time or not at all.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The three (3)types of formal child care arrangements for working parents are
Q3) Describe the attitudes towards the employment of mothers with young children.
Q4) Orlando works at McDonald's, and some weeks works 20 hours a week and other weeks 40 hours, generally at the whim of the restaurant manager. Orlando's job has a ________ schedule.
Q5) The time availability perspective on the division of household labor suggests that the division of household labor is determined by two (2)factors, ____________.
Q6) With large numbers of mothers working outside the home, child care becomes very important. Describe the choices that families have. Then, evaluate the effect of mothers' employment on children's well-being.
Q7) Child care is a necessity, but largely a private matter in the U.S. Give two (2)examples that illustrate how it is a private matter.
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Chapter 12: Aging Families
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Q1) Trevor earned $106,800 in 2010; therefore, he paid 6.2 percent of his income in Social Security taxes or $6,675. Meanwhile, Cody earned $213,600 and also paid 6.2 percent on his first $106,800, and then nothing on the rest, also coming to $6,675. Therefore, Social Security taxes are called _________.
A)portable
B)English poor laws
C)regressive
D)OASI
E)retrograde
Q2) An interdisciplinary science of aging that draws upon biology, medicine, and the social sciences is called:
A)gerontology
B)gerifocus
C)generational study
D)agifocus
E)oldenology
Q3) Compare and contrast the seven (7)theories of aging that are often used in the field of gerontology. Choose one topic from the chapter and apply one of these theories.
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Chapter 13: Violence and Abuse
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Q1) With respect to child abuse, which of the following is TRUE?
A)Physical abuse is the most common type.
B)About 900 children died in 2008 due to abuse and neglect.
C)Most child abuse is perpetuated by a stepparent or unmarried partner.
D)Male victims outnumber female victims, except for sexual abuse.
E)Black children are most likely to experience abuse and Asian American children are least likely.
Q2) The key point of the intergenerational transmission of violence perspective is that
Q3) List the factors associated with intimate partner violence that are identified in your text.
Q4) According to the text, the five (5)general factors that contribute to child abuse are
Q5) According to Johnson's typology of violence that identifies four patterns, victims of ________ are more likely to be injured, to experience post-traumatic stress syndrome, to use painkillers, and to miss work.
Q6) A recent typology of violence by Johnson identifies four patterns of violence, which are ________.
Q7) The four (4)types of child abuse are ________.
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Chapter 14: Divorce and Repartnering
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Q1) Carol and Jay were married for 6 years. During this time Carol worked as a bank teller to support her husband through graduate school so that he could become a tax attorney. After the divorce she asked for some money so that she could go to college as well. This post-divorce support is called:
A)family allowance
B)post-divorce financial support
C)alimony
D)palimony
E)displaced homemaker settlement
Q2) There are several explanations for the added risk of children in stepfamilies, according to the text. Which is NOT one of them?
A)stressful transitions
B)economic deprivation
C)more limited social capital
D)parents' investment in new relationship rather than their children
E)children being teased and bullied at school
Q3) What are the requirements for covenant marriage?
Q4) Describe the short- and long-term effects of divorce on children. Should parents divorce or remain married?
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Chapter 15: Summing It Up: Families and the Sociological Imagination
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Q1) Your author makes a number of predictions about American families of the future, including:
A)The size of the Hispanic population will decline.
B)The size of the elderly population will continue to decline.
C)The U.S. will remain highly stratified.
D)The size of the elderly population will stabilize.
E)The U.S. will retain its universal approach to family policy.
Q2) Which of the following best illustrates that families are both a public social institution and a private personal relationship at the same time?
A)Kendra and Oliver have fallen in love.
B)Amy is thinking about having a baby.
C)Thirty percent of U.S. babies are delivered by Cesarean section.
D)Taylor spends time with his grandmother after school.
E)Annie has brown hair, but she is thinking about dyeing it blond.
Q3) In the U.S., concerns regarding work-family balance are generally viewed as personal issues or problems, in contrast to Canada or European countries that take a more collective view.
A)True
B)False
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