Family Relationships
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Course Introduction
Family Relationships explores the dynamics and structures that define families across cultures and societies. The course examines theories and research related to family functioning, communication, roles, parenting styles, development across the family life cycle, and the impact of social, cultural, and economic factors on family life. Students will analyze patterns of interaction, conflict resolution, intimacy, and emotional bonds within various family configurations, developing an understanding of how families adapt to challenges, change over time, and contribute to personal and societal well-being.
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) Sales tax is an example of progressive taxation, but income tax is not.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Your mom and dad are part of your family of orientation.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q3) According to the feature box, adolescence among the Maasai lasts much longer than in the U.S.-often until into their mid-twenties.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) List the four goals of an empirical approach.
Answer: (1)describe some phenomena; (2)examine the factors that predict or are associated with some phenomena; (3)explain cause-and-effect relationships or provide insight into why certain events do or do not occur: (4)understand the meanings attached to behavior or situations.
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Chapter 2: Families Throughout the World: Marriage, Family, and Kinship
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Q1) Which of the following countries has reduced its birthrate most dramatically since 1950?
A)the U.S.
B)India
C)Japan
D)France
E)Sweden
Answer: B
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) India is an example of a developed nation.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q4) The infant mortality rate is defined as:
Answer: the number of deaths within the first year of life, per 1,000 births in the population
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Chapter 3: Families Throughout History
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Q1) In many ways families in modern industrial and postindustrial societies, such as the U.S., resemble families in ________ societies in terms of their functions, forms, and many of their intimate relationships.
A)hunting and gathering
B)horticultural
C)agricultural
D)both horticultural and agricultural
E)patrician
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following best characterizes Mexican families in the United States?
A)Most Mexican landowners had their land confiscated after the U.S. annexed Mexican territory in 1848, and they ended up becoming laborers on land now owned by others.
B)Mexican Americans have had great difficulty preserving their traditional family structure because of men's long work hours.
C)Families lean toward the nuclear family model.
D)Compadres are the dead ancestors whom Mexican American families worship.
E)Women and men tend to share childrearing but not housekeeping tasks.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Sex, Gender, and Families
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Q1) The ________ has cut millions of dollars targeted for family planning programs from any organization that has any linkages to abortion.
Q2) The experience of Dr. Barres, as discussed in the feature box, reveals:
A)most intersexed people are plagued with depression over the course of their lives
B)infibulation has critical health consequences
C)many women experience discrimination, and they may not even be aware of it
D)sex reassignment surgery leaves people feeling depressed because they feel they are neither male or female
E)trends in labor market segmentation
Q3) A clitoridectomy is the less extensive of the two methods of female genital cutting. A)True
B)False
Q4) Gendered expectations are rapidly changing among Hispanics, with older people more likely to believe in traditional gendered expectations.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The term "sex" refers to:
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Chapter 5: Social Stratification, Social Class, and Families
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Q1) Why is there so little social mobility?
A)Minority groups are the fastest growing groups in society and their mobility is among the lowest.
B)The tax system penalizes wealthy families and therefore they have been losing their wealth.
C)The educational system is stratified, and the tax system favors wealthy people passing their wealth to their heirs.
D)More women work outside the home.
E)Actually, there is a lot of social mobility.
Q2) 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
Q3) List the four (4)theories that have been offered to explain the nature of poverty.
Q4) Describe how social class is conceptualized in Great Britain, and the health differences across social class boundaries.
Q5) Compare and contrast the six (6)social classes in the U.S. presented in your text.
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Chapter 6: Race, Ethnicity, and Families
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Q1) According to World Map 6.1, which part of the world contains the largest percentage of minorities?
A)The U.S.
B)Europe
C)Brazil
D)Africa
E)Russia
Q2) List three (3)reasons why are Asians sometimes nicknamed the "model minority."
Q3) ________ is the largest Native American tribe with nearly 900,000 people reporting this tribal affiliation alone or in combination with another tribe, race, or ethnicity.
Q4) Affirmative action is a set of social policies designed to increase opportunities for minority groups.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Asian Americans have not faced prejudice or discrimination in the U.S., therefore they have been nicknamed the model minority.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Courtship, Intimacy, and Partnering
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Q1) Compare and contrast male and female sexual scripts in the U.S., and include a discussion of the double standard.
Q2) 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 ________.
Q3) Which of the following principles about sexuality is NOT true, according to Anderson and Taylor?
A)Sexual attitudes and behaviors are substantially different across cultures.
B)Sexual attitudes and behaviors change over time.
C)Social institutions channel and direct sexuality.
D)Sexual orientation is learned.
Q4) Today the U.S. is viewed as having what type of mate selection process?
A)formally engaged
B)formal dating
C)supervised dating
D)open approach
E)formally free
Q5) Civil unions are defined as ________.
Q6) Compare and contrast mate selection in India to the U.S.
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Chapter 8: Marriage: a Personal Relationship and Social Institution
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Q1) Weddings are, quite simply, a party to celebrate a new marriage.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Electronic communication:
A)offers us fewer relationships with more depth
B)brings more informality into our written and spoken word
C)is likely a passing fad
D)offers us less control over our messages
E)is optional at most universities
Q3) Tamara and Elliott are at a party and they decide this is the perfect place to conduct their sociology experiment for their research paper. They want to know if there are any differences in communication styles by sex. In their observation that night they probably witnessed all of the following EXCEPT:
A)women tended to smile more often and express a wider range of emotions
B)women did the most talking and interrupted more often
C)women use more qualifiers, e.g., "somewhat; kind of; I guess"
D)men initiated topics more often
E)men told more jokes
Q4) Why is the government involved in marriage?
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Q5) List the four (4)general concepts associated with communication.
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Chapter 9: Becoming a Parent
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Q1) An increasing number of people are childfree. Write an essay about infertility and the voluntary childfree.
Q2) Why did the birthrate drop so significantly in the 1960s and 1970s?
A)A greater number of women were of childbearing age, which naturally results in fewer babies being born.
B)More women began going to college.
C)Blacks gained employment in new fields.
D)The number of married women working outside the home declined.
E)The retirement age dropped.
Q3) Population statistics reflect both fertility rates and death rates.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to World Map 9.1, much of Africa and South America have a total fertility rate of 5.0 and over.
A)True B)False
Q5) List two (2)controversies discussed in your text surrounding ART.
Q6) Describe the historical fluctuation in fertility rates in the U.S. What might account for these fluctuations?
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Chapter 10: Raising Children
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Q1) "Mothering" and "fathering" are both identities and ________.
Q2) The negative biological, social, and economic consequences of early parenting in the U.S. are well documented:
A)Teen mothers are considerably poorer until their child/children reach school age.
B)Teen mothers are 8 times as likely to die in childbirth as are older mothers.
C)Teen mothers are twice as likely as other mothers to have babies of low birth weight.
D)Children born to teen mothers have lower math skills, but reading skills seem to be comparable to children born to older parents.
E)It has been estimated that teen childbearing cost taxpayers about $2 billion a year for health care, child welfare, and in lost revenues.
Q3) The teenage birthrate is declining among Whites and Hispanics, but is rising slightly among Blacks.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ________ are cash benefits given to families by the government.
Q5) ________ are the five (5)primary agents of socialization.
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Chapter 11: Families and the Work They Do
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Q1) The unemployment rate:
A)hovered around 6 percent for Whites and 8 percent for Blacks in late 2010
B)in late 2010 was nearly double that of just a few years earlier
C)has an effect on adults, but children usually do not feel those effects
D)is such that high unemployment is associated with marriage rates - showing how micro-level factors affect macro-level factors
E)is such that high unemployment is associated with marriage rates: the higher the level of unemployment, the higher the rate of marriage in a community
Q2) List at least three (3)components of the 2010 health care reform legislation.
Q3) How do nonstandardized work schedules affect family life?
A)They help keep child care costs down.
B) They are desired by women who have large families.
C)They can make it difficult to move into the tertiary sector.
D)They increase the likelihood of receiving higher pay and/or fringe benefits.
E)Temporary work agencies are booming; manpower is one of the largest private employers in the U.S.
Q4) Describe the challenges of juggling work and family. Be sure to include the concepts of work-family conflict, role overload, spillover, and describe differences in leisure.
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Chapter 12: Aging Families
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Q1) Your mom and dad are approaching retirement age. What would you tell them about sex differences in retirement?
A)Women begin planning for retirement earlier than men.
B)The process of retiring is associated with a decrease in marital quality for women but not for men.
C)Conflicts are most likely to arise when both spouses retire at the same time, rather than one retiring while the other continues working.
D)Men are more satisfied with retirement than are women.
E)Part-time employment is linked to retirement satisfaction for both men and women.
Q2) Most countries will see a ________ in both the sheer number of oldest-old, and their proportion of the elderly overall.
A)slight increase
B)rapid increase
C)slight decline
D)rapid decline
E)stabilization
Q3) Compare and contrast (1)sex and (2)racial/ethnic differences in grandparenting styles.
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Chapter 13: Violence and Abuse
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Q1) Mutual violent control (MVC)refers to an understudied pattern of behavior in which both partners are controlling and violent; they are battling for control.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Twelve percent of women have been victimized in some way by an intimate partner, about twice the rate of male victimization, according to the NVAW survey.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Abusers of the elderly are typically nonfamily caregivers, such as nursing home staff or adult day care providers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What perspective provides a synthesis of macro-level and micro-level factors?
A)patriarchy
B)stress
C)family privacy
D)the intergenerational transmission of violence
E)power and control
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Chapter 14: Divorce and Repartnering
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Q1) ________ are families in which one or both of the adult partners has at least one child, either residing with them or elsewhere.
A)Parents without partners
B)Joint families
C)Remarried families
D)Stepfamilies
E)Refined families
Q2) According to the Census Bureau, only about 54 percent of custodial parents that have some type of agreement or court award establishing child support from the noncustodial parent.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Crude and refined divorce rates are cross-sectional, which means ________.
Q4) Beginning in 1977, states began to amend their laws so that couples can claim that they have irreconcilable differences rather than blame one another, which is called a normless divorce.
A)True
B)False
Q5) List the stations of divorce.
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Chapter 15: Summing It Up: Families and the Sociological Imagination
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Q1) The five (5)themes of the textbook are ________.
Q2) If we want to understand contemporary patterns in the U.S., we should compare ourselves to something else, such as other cultures or other points in history; this is called a comparative perspective.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A __________ reveals that many seemingly private struggles are really large-scale social problems.
Q4) Which of the following statements best illustrates social inequality's powerful influence on family life?
A)Patterns of social inequality shape families, and conversely, patterns of social inequality are also shaped by families.
B)There is a large degree of social mobility in the U.S.
C)Extended families are viewed as a real source of strength.
D)The middle class is the largest social class, and therefore its ideologies are presented as normal, and others adopt its values as their own.
E)Welfare recipients support one another and see themselves as a collective group suffering persecution.
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