Family Sociology
Midterm Exam
Course Introduction
Family Sociology explores the structures, dynamics, and roles of families within diverse social, cultural, and historical contexts. This course examines how families are formed, maintained, and transformed by factors such as gender, race, class, sexuality, and public policy. Students will analyze theories of family, patterns of relationship and parenting, and the impact of social change on family life. Through case studies and current research, the course encourages critical thinking about the challenges families face and the evolving definitions of family in contemporary society.
Recommended Textbook Marriages and Families 8th Edition by
Nijole V. Benokraitis
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Chapter 1: he Changing Family
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Q1) Jim and Lara, a couple, have lived together for a period of 10 years.Most of their friends and families consider their relationship as socially acceptable.They also file a joint tax return.However, they do not have a marriage license nor have they been married by an authorized official.This is an example of a ________.
A) open marriage
B) common-law marriage
C) ceremonial marriage
D) procedural marriage
Answer: B
Q2) Norman, a sociologist, studies the social interaction patterns of several tribes in specific settings.He focuses on the choices that individuals in a tribe make.In this scenario, Norman is studying the tribe at the ________ perspective.
A) macro-level
B) micro-level
C) global-level
D) nuclear-level
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Studying the Family
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Q1) Lin, who works at a youth information center, is conducting a social intervention to prevent the negative outcomes of teenage pregnancy.Once the social intervention is complete, she will assess whether the intervention generated the expected results by conducting surveys.In such a scenario, Lin is using the ________.
A) experiment method
B) evaluation research method
C) nonparticipant observation method
D) secondary analysis method
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following methods do researchers use to systematically collect data from respondents through questionnaires or interviews?
A) experiment method
B) survey method
C) participant observation
D) secondary research
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: The Family in Historical Perspective
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Q1) During the 1800s, Mexican women typically worked ________.
A) as miners
B) on the railroads
C) in canning houses
D) in low-level urban occupations
Answer: C
Q2) Kirsten claims that the golden fifties was the best time for being a mother.Which of the following is an accurate statement that weakens Kirsten's claim?
A) Mothers in the golden fifties were more likely to have high paying jobs.
B) Mothers in the golden fifties were more likely to be assisted by numerous childcare services.
C) Mothers in the golden fifties were less likely to consume alcohol or drugs.
D) Mothers in the golden fifties were more likely to be pressured to give up out-of-wedlock babies for adoption.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Racial and Ethnic Families: Strengths and Stresses
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Q1) A similarity between Latino families and Asian American families is that they both
A) instill the concept of machismo among their youth
B) support the philosophy of individualism
C) lay an emphasis on the importance of family
D) encourage intercaste marriages
Q2) How do Latin Americans differ from White Americans with regard to their health and economic well-being?
A) Latinos as a group have lower life expectancy rates than whites.
B) Latino families are less likely than white families to financially aid their kin.
C) Latino families are more likely than white families to support their parents.
D) Latinos are more likely than whites to engage in binge drinking and to die from illicit drugs and prescription abuse.
Q3) Sociologists view race as a ________.
A) genetically-determined fact
B) social construction
C) biological trait
D) evolutionary phenomenon
Q4) Discuss the strengths of African American families.
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Chapter 5: Socialization and Gender Roles
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Q1) ________ is an attitude or behavior that discriminates against one sex, usually females, based on the assumed superiority of the other sex.
A) Genderism
B) Homophobia
C) Sexism
D) Heterosexism
Q2) ________ refers to the chromosomal, hormonal, anatomical, and other physiological attributes of an individual.
A) Race
B) Ethnicity
C) Gender
D) Sex
Q3) ________ argue that evolution and genetic factors can explain why men are generally more aggressive than women.
A) Symbolic interactionists
B) Feminists
C) Sociobiologists
D) Social learning theorists
Q4) Explain gender script.
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Chapter 6: Love and Loving Relationships
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Q1) Research indicates that our cultural values encourage individualism and competition.Which of the following is a characteristic of individualism?
A) It creates a sense of community and cooperation in an individual.
B) It helps individuals avoid narcissistic behavior.
C) It encourages the individual to have a preoccupation with self.
D) It promotes feelings of selflessness in an individual.
Q2) Anthony and Debby have been dating each other since the past one year.Over the year, their relationship has strengthened and Debby often confides in Anthony about her fears and insecurities.She trusts Anthony with her innermost thoughts and knows that he will not judge her.In this scenario, Debby and Anthony's relationship reflects ________ intimacy.
A) physical
B) physiological
C) verbal
D) biological
Q3) Briefly describe commitment, one of the components of love.
Q4) List the eight qualities of friendship that sociologist Keith Davis has identified.
Q5) Explain the limitations of the triangular theory of love.
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Chapter 7: Sexuality and Sexual Expression throughout Life
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Q1) Peers are among the most common sources of information about sex.Which of the following, if true, supports this statement?
A) Peers are likely to be more open than parents about discussing sex.
B) They are more likely to be misinformed about sex.
C) Children confide more in their siblings than in their peers.
D) Over 90 percent of teenagers worldwide receive sex education from school counselors.
Q2) Discuss emotional infidelity.
Q3) Which of the following is a reason why there isn't an accurate figure on how many LGBT people are there in the United States?
A) Researchers define and measure sexual orientation in the same, standard way.
B) Respondents may not be willing to disclose this information.
C) People who engage in same-sex behavior consider themselves gay.
D) More LGBTs are willing to come out than in the past.
Q4) A comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)for students ________.
A) starts in the twelfth grade
B) includes medically accurate information
C) ends in the tenth grade
D) focuses solely on abstinence and contraception
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Chapter 8: Choosing Others: Dating and Mate Selection
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Q1) Sexual experimentation is a(n)________ function of dating.
A) latent
B) manifest
C) primary
D) apparent
Q2) Which of the following is a dating trend in which couples spend three or more nights together but maintain separate homes?
A) stayover
B) coming-out
C) getting together
D) hanging out
Q3) According to the ________, attractive people are assumed to possess other desirable social characteristics such as warmth, sexual responsiveness, kindness, poise, sociability, and good character.
A) butterfly effect
B) domino effect
C) halo effect
D) snowball effect
Q4) How do arranged marriages increase solidarity between families and kinship groups?
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Chapter 9: Singlehood, Cohabitation, Civil Unions, and Other Options
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Q1) ________ have never married and are satisfied with that choice; are divorced or widowed but don't want to remarry; are living with someone but don't intend to marry; and whose religion forbids marriage, such as priests and nuns.
A) Voluntary temporary singles
B) Involuntary stable singles
C) Involuntary temporary singles
D) Voluntary stable singles
Q2) ________ singles are primarily older, divorced, widowed, and never-married people who would like to marry or remarry but haven't found a suitable mate and now accept their single status as permanent.This group also includes singles who suffer from some physical or psychological impairment that limits their success in the marriage market.
A) Involuntary stable
B) Involuntary temporary
C) Voluntary temporary
D) Voluntary stable
Q3) Briefly explain why singles are postponing marriage.
Q4) Explain two areas of conflict that gay and lesbian couples face.
Q5) Briefly describe involuntary stable singles.
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Chapter 10: Marriage and Communication in Intimate Relationships
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Q1) In a ________ marriage, partners fight, both verbally and physically, but do not believe that fighting is a good reason for divorce.They feel that fighting is an acceptable way to try to solve problems, and they thrive on their incompatibility.
A) vital
B) conflict-habituated
C) devitalized
D) passive-congenial
Q2) Briefly describe a passive-congenial marriage.
Q3) The selection effect differs from the protection effect in that ________.
A) the protection effect posits that marriage helps increase a person's health by decreasing the opportunities for risky activities
B) the selection effect posits that it is marriage itself, and not the choice of the mate that increases a person's health
C) the protection effect does not take the couple's health into account
D) the selection effect entails that receiving emotional, physical, and financial support from a spouse improves one's general health
Q4) Explain the self-disclosure concept.
Q5) Briefly describe marital stability and marital satisfaction.
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Chapter 11: To Be or Not to Be a Parent: More Choices, More
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Q1) Which of the following is a macro-level factor that contributes to changing birthrates?
A) Postponing marriage decreases birthrates.
B) Economic recessions tend to decrease birthrates because of unemployment.
C) Social contexts such as education have a great effect on birthrates.
D) Birth spacing, or how often women have babies, also affects birthrates.
Q2) Which of the following is true of infertility?
A) Men are more likely than women to be infertile.
B) Women are more likely than men to be infertile.
C) About one-fourth of infertility cases are diagnosed as having idiopathic infertility.
D) Infertility affects about 50 percent of all couples of reproductive age.
Q3) The mother starts to feel the fetus move and become active ________.
A) from the time of fertilization
B) in the first trimester
C) in the second trimester
D) in the third trimester
Q4) Briefly describe a few benefits of becoming a parent.
Q5) Explain three micro-level factors that contribute to postponed marriages.
Q6) Briefly explain preimplantation genetic diagnosis.
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Chapter 12: Raising Children: Promises and Pitfalls
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of maternal gatekeeping?
A) Linda often prioritizes her family's needs over her own.
B) Barbara criticizes the way her husband, Tom, prepares the baby's meals.
C) Patricia prioritizes her job over her domestic responsibilities.
D) Melissa and John share their household tasks equally among themselves.
Q2) Which of the following is a difference between heterosexual families and homosexual families?
A) There exists a genderless division of labor in homosexual families unlike in heterosexual parents.
B) Heterosexual families are subjected to more prejudice and discrimination than homosexual families.
C) Parents in homosexual families tend to co-parent more equally than parents in heterosexual families.
D) Parents in homosexual families do not have to juggle work and domestic responsibilities like parents in heterosexual families.
Q3) What is cyber bullying?
Q4) How does helicopter parenting impact children?
Q5) Illustrate a scenario that explains the concept of role overload.
Q6) What are the effects of corporal punishment on children?
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Chapter 13: The Economy and Family Life
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Q1) A study about women in the workforce reported that women are less likely to be offered promotions than men.Which of the following statements, if true, is most likely to support the findings of the study?
A) Single working women are often expected to work longer hours than women who have children.
B) Research indicates that women have stronger leadership qualities than men.
C) Women have more access to task forces and highly visible committees than men.
D) A majority of working women complain of biased and damaging evaluations by male supervisors.
Q2) Which of the following is a cost of being a stay-at-home dad?
A) They feel emasculated because much of their identity comes from being a good nurturer.
B) They feel unappreciated by their working spouses.
C) They participate in their wife's career behind the scenes.
D) They work in professional positions out of their homes and cannot spend sufficient time with their children.
Q3) Explain the concept of a motherhood penalty with the help of an example.
Q4) How does the Department of Agriculture determine the poverty threshold?
Q5) What is globalization? Explain with the help of an example.
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Chapter 14: Domestic Violence and Other Family Health
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Q1) Which of the following is true of emotional abuse?
A) It includes throwing objects and biting.
B) It includes scorn, criticism, and ridicule.
C) It includes being forced into unwanted sexual activity.
D) It occurs primarily in heterosexual marriages.
Q2) Tom claims that a child's economic condition is a good indicator of that child's chances of being abused.Which of the following is an accurate statement that strengthens Tom's claim?
A) Child maltreatment is found to be more common in households in which the woman is abused.
B) Poverty has been found to be the single-best predictor of child abuse and neglect.
C) Coping with a disability has been found to increase parental stress and child abuse.
D) Substance-abusing has been found to lower parenting skills and increase child abuse and neglect.
Q3) Briefly describe depression.
Q4) Studies have shown that elder abuse usually occurs as a result of lack of kinship.Provide an accurate explanation that is likely to support this conclusion.
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Chapter 15: Separation, Divorce, Remarriage, and Stepfamilies
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Q1) Harry, a sociology student, after observing his aunt who is about to remarry, believes that she is in the psychic stage of remarriage.Which of the following would confirm his belief?
A) She has started cutting away from people whom she was once close to after her divorce.
B) She is thinking of visiting her fiancé's children and wants to spend time with them.
C) She is sad about the fact that she is no longer going to be independent and do what she likes.
D) She has started separating expenses to what she would take care of and those that her husband should.
Q2) Jacob tells his boss that he and his wife are no longer together.His friends have also talked him into going out with one his colleagues.This is an example of a(n)________ divorce.
A) quasi
B) informal
C) psychic
D) community
Q3) Describe a scenario which would serve as an example of pseudo reconciliation.
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Chapter 16: Families in Later Life
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Q1) Which of the following is true of Alzheimer's disease?
A) It is a degenerative disorder that diminishes the white blood corpuscles count.
B) It is a degenerative disorder of the lungs.
C) It is a degenerative disorder that attacks the brain and impairs thinking.
D) It is a degenerative disorder of muscle fibers.
Q2) A legal document that specifies the medical treatments a person would like to receive if incapacitated is known as a ________.
A) medical power of attorney
B) living will
C) codicil
D) medical contract
Q3) During which of the following age groups is a person categorized as young-old?
A) between 50 and 64
B) between 75 and 84
C) between 85 and 90
D) between 65 and 74
Q4) What is life expectancy? Describe how it varies with sex, race-ethnicity, and social class.
Q5) Give a suitable answer that would serve as an example of apathetic siblings.
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