Family Sociology Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Family Sociology explores the structures, functions, and dynamics of families within various social, cultural, and historical contexts. The course examines how families are shaped by and respond to forces such as social class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and public policy. Students will analyze different family forms, patterns of relationship and change, parenting and child-rearing practices, and issues such as marriage, divorce, aging, and domestic violence. Through sociological theories and empirical research, the course aims to enhance understanding of the central role families play in society and the diverse ways individuals experience family life.
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) Since the early 1990s, the tendency for young married adults to live with the parents of either the wife or husband, or sometimes with the grandparents of one of the partners has increased.Which of the following is an accurate reason for this?
A) Children are now most likely to be staying in two-parent households as divorce rates have declined.
B) At least half of all young couples can't afford a medium-priced house.
C) Most families are now self-sufficient as most couples are employed.
D) Most young adults now do not like staying in multigenerational households.
Answer: B
Q2) Explain the term fictive kin.
Answer: Fictive kin are nonrelatives who are accepted as part of the family because they have strong bonds with biological family members and provide important services and care.These emotional ties may be stronger and more lasting than those established by blood or marriage.
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Chapter 2: Studying the Family
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Q1) Clarice Thompson, an academician and scholar, believes that all individuals, irrespective of gender, have equal social, economic, and political rights in a society.Clarice is most likely to be a ________.
A) conflict theorist
B) symbolic interactionist
C) social exchange theorist
D) feminist
Answer: D
Q2) The interconnected behaviors, roles, and relationships that influence a person's daily life are called the ________.
A) exosystem
B) mesosystem
C) macrosystem
D) microsystem
Answer: D
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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) Which of the following is the most accurate statement about premarital sex during colonial times?
A) It was prevalent during casual dates.
B) It was very rare; everyone waited until marriage.
C) It was common among engaged couples.
D) It was encouraged and not considered as taboo.
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following is characteristic of middle-class families in the golden fifties?
A) They included two earning members.
B) They were more focused on running businesses than families.
C) They consisted of a working husbands and homemaker wives.
D) They expected men to share domestic chores.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Racial and Ethnic Families: Strengths and Stresses
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Q1) African American families often display a(n)________.
A) matriarchal family pattern
B) egalitarian family pattern
C) patriarchal family pattern
D) authoritarian family pattern
Q2) Evan Rathbone, a sociologist, claims that machismo among Latin American men is a ludicrous stereotype.Which of the following statements supports his claim?
A) Many Latino men are the primary source of financial support for their families.
B) Latino men have a deep respect for authority, tradition, and family.
C) Many Latino men participate in domestic work and child rearing activities.
D) Latino men strive to maintain close ties with their extended families.
Q3) Why do social scientists argue that we do not live in a color-blind society? In other words, what are some benefits associated with white skin color?
Q4) Marriage in Middle Eastern families is ________.
A) usually based on the western concept of romantic love
B) often arranged or semi-arranged
C) initiated by young adults without parental approval
D) usually exogamous
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Chapter 5: Socialization and Gender Roles
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Q1) What benefits do men have over women with reference to traditional gender roles?
Q2) Which of the following statements, if true, is likely to weaken the argument that Saudi Arabia continues to restrict political empowerment of women?
A) Saudi Arabia ranks 71st in women empowerment, well below many African and European countries.
B) Like Egypt and Yemen, Saudi Arabia provides restricted voting rights for women.
C) Women comprise two percent of those in high-level political positions in the country.
D) Saudi Arabia has recently announced that women can run as candidates in municipal elections.
Q3) ________ gender ideologies endorse women's and men's shared breadwinning and nurturing family roles.
A) Egalitarian
B) Matriarchal
C) Patriarchal
D) Traditional
Q4) Explain gender identity with the help of an example.
Q5) What are the costs of traditional gender roles?
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Chapter 6: Love and Loving Relationships
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Q1) According to Reiss's wheel theory of love, couples in the ________ stage of their relationship make mutual decisions and support each other's ambitions.
A) self-revelation
B) rapport
C) personality need fulfillment
D) mutual dependency
Q2) Which of the following is a criticism of the attachment theory?
A) It overemphasizes the importance of life events that occur after the age of 18.
B) It ignores the need for infants to develop a relationship with a caregiver.
C) It focuses excessively on the relationship between the father and the child.
D) It does not address cross-cultural differences in child-rearing practices.
Q3) ________ refers to marrying outside an acceptable group.
A) Endogamy
B) Henogamy
C) Heterogamy
D) Homogamy
Q4) How do gestures differ in romantic love in comparison with long-term love?
Q5) Explain the limitations of the triangular theory of love.
Q6) Why is love unrequited? Explain with the help of reasons.
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Chapter 7: Sexuality and Sexual Expression throughout Life
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Q1) Describe briefly, the factors that influence the frequency of sex among singles.Provide examples to explain these factors.
Q2) A similarity between masturbation and sexual fantasies is that both ________.
A) are emotionally unhealthy
B) involve an external stimulus
C) can relieve sexual tension
D) end in adulthood
Q3) The belief that being straight is superior to and more "natural" than being gay is called ________.
A) heterosexism
B) misandry
C) biphobia
D) androgyny
Q4) Which of the following functions does casual sex serve?
A) experimentation
B) commitment
C) self-disclosure
D) fulfillment of duties
Q5) Explain with the help of examples, the impact of movies on children's sexual behavior.
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Chapter 8: Choosing Others: Dating and Mate Selection
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Q1) Which of the following is a manifest function of dating?
A) maturation
B) sexual experimentation
C) socialization
D) big business
Q2) Propinquity, one of the filters in the filter theory, refers to ________.
A) geographic closeness
B) physical appearance
C) ethnicity and race
D) social class
Q3) According to the filter theory, propinquity limits whom we meet, get to know, interact with, and marry.Which of the following, if true, supports this statement?
A) Trends show that men and women choose partners whose physical attractiveness is similar to their own.
B) Men seek younger women because they want to have children.
C) Studies show that the U.S.culture tends to make people's dating preferences and behavior more heterogamous.
D) Research indicates that 39 percent of U.S.workers have dated a coworker.
Q4) What is a traditional date? Explain.
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Chapter 9: Singlehood, Cohabitation, Civil Unions, and Other Options
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Q1) Which of the following is true of same-sex marriages in America?
A) A majority of Americans support same-sex marriage.
B) 40 states have legalized same-sex marriages.
C) Same-sex marriage rates are highest among black communities.
D) The breakup rates among same-sex couples is lower than different-sex couples.
Q2) Explain two areas of conflict that gay and lesbian couples face.
Q3) Briefly explain why singles are postponing marriage.
Q4) Which of the following is true of "singleton" households?
A) They are clustered around urban areas.
B) They receive extensive financial assistance from their families.
C) They refer to the clustering of single moms in rural western states.
D) They contain at least three single roommates.
Q5) How do Asian women differ from their Latina counterparts?
A) Asian women have lower cohabitation rates than Latinas.
B) Foreign-born Asian women have higher cohabitation rates than U.S.-born Latinas.
C) Higher percentage of Asian American women are single than their Latina counterparts.
D) Lesser percentage of Asian American women are married than their Latina counterparts.
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Chapter 10: Marriage and Communication in Intimate Relationships
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Q1) Cuber and Haroff characterized devitalized marriages as __________ marriages because it appeared to be based on convenience.
A) utilitarian
B) intrinsic
C) essential
D) active
Q2) Which of the following is true of marriage rates in America?
A) Marriage rates are higher among people with college degrees than those without.
B) Marriage rates have been steadily increasing since 1980.
C) Marriage rates among whites are lower than those among blacks.
D) Marriage rates among Latinos are higher than those among whites.
Q3) In order to predict divorce and understand inadequate parenting, psychological distress, and poor physical health, researchers are likely to measure ________.
A) marital feasibility
B) marital stability
C) marital satisfaction
D) marital longitude
Q4) Describe the functions of an engagement.
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Chapter 11: To Be or Not to Be a Parent: More Choices, More
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Q1) Mark believes that micro-level factors are primarily responsible for delayed or postponed parenthood.However, Carlos disagrees and is of the opinion that macro-level factors actually delay parenthood.Which of the following is an accurate statement that will strengthen Carlos's view?
A) Attitudes about the "ideal" family size have changed, resulting in less pressure to have more than two children.
B) Women who enjoy their jobs and need money to boost their household income are often reluctant to take on balancing child rearing and paid work.
C) Daunting jobs and careers make it more difficult to meet prospective.
D) Advances in reproductive technology have reduced many women's concerns about their biological clock and finding a mate.
Q2) Which of the following is a micro-level reason why people postpone childbearing?
A) the fear of being a single, working mom
B) the rise in divorce rates across all populations of the country
C) the difficulty in finding a suitable job to sustain a family
D) the lack of a national child care program
Q3) Briefly explain preimplantation genetic diagnosis.
Q4) Explain three micro-level factors that contribute to postponed marriages.
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Chapter 12: Raising Children: Promises and Pitfalls
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Q1) Caroline, the mother of sixteen-year-old Melody, is an interfering and intrusive parent.She wants to know where Melody is at all times.Whenever Melody steps out of the house, Caroline calls her every hour to check in on her.In this scenario, Caroline is a(n)________ parent.
A) reactive
B) unresponsive
C) helicopter
D) problem
Q2) Role ________ can be described as the conflicts that someone feels within a role. A) overload
B) strain
C) engagement
D) conflict
Q3) In Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, how does the preoperational stage differ from the concrete operational stage? Explain.
Q4) List out some of the factors that cause fathers to be absent.Discuss briefly its effect on families.
Q5) How does helicopter parenting impact children?
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Chapter 13: The Economy and Family Life
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Q1) Lydia and Bennett are a working couple.Lydia works as an accountant, while Bennett runs a software company out of home.In this scenario, which of the following holds true?
A) Lydia and Bennett are a two-person single career couple.
B) Lydia and Bennett play traditional gender roles.
C) Lydia and Bennett are a dual-earner couple.
D) Lydia and Bennett are a stay-at-home couple.
Q2) ________ are women with young children who choose jobs with enough flexibility to accommodate family needs.
A) Copers
B) Conflicteds
C) Captives
D) Commiteds
Q3) Larry and Kim, a married couple, work in different cities.Due to the economic recession, they were left with no choice but to accept jobs in different places.However, they travel to meet each other every weekend.Identify and explain the type of marriage seen in this scenario.
Q4) What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of hiring part-time workers?
Q5) What is globalization? Explain with the help of an example.
Q6) Explain the concept of a motherhood penalty with the help of an example.
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Chapter 14: Domestic Violence and Other Family Health
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Q1) During a debate about intimate partner violence (IPV), Carlos opines that internalized homophobia increases the likelihood of lifetime IPV.However, Jose disagrees and claims that internalized homophobia lowers IPV.Which of the following is an accurate statement that strengthens Carlos's argument?
A) Studies have shown that among same-sex relationships, women are more likely than men to report IPV incidents.
B) Studies have shown that lesbian women have a higher rate of IPV than gay men.
C) Studies have shown that being treated unfairly because of one's homosexual orientation increases IPV among same-sex partners.
D) Studies have shown that homosexuals who "harbor beliefs that they deserve the abuse" tend to have low levels of IPV.
Q2) Which of the following is true of intimate partner violence and ethnicity?
A) American Indian and Alaska native women have the highest IPV rates in the country.
B) African American women have the highest IPV rates in the country.
C) IPV rates among multiracial women are the lowest in the country.
D) Asian American women have the highest IPV rates in the country.
Q3) Briefly describe the terms "bulimia" and "anorexia nervosa."
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Chapter 15: Separation, Divorce, Remarriage, and Stepfamilies
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Q1) Tanya, a teenager, argues with her friend that teen marriages will lead to stronger marriages.Which of the following is an accurate statement that weakens Tanya's argument?
A) Teens are less likely to divorce as they live in a shrinking marriage market.
B) First marriages of teens tend to last longer than first marriages of adults.
C) Teens are more likely to be involved in a cohabitation arrangement.
D) Teen marriages are typically hastened by a premarital pregnancy.
Q2) According to Bohannon, the ________ divorce begins before people take any legal steps.
A) emotional
B) community
C) economic
D) co-parental
Q3) Describe a scenario which would serve as an example of pseudo reconciliation.
Q4) The ________ stage involves developing a relationship between a partner and the children of the new spouse.
A) parental remarriage
B) community remarriage
C) psychic remarriage
D) emotional remarriage
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Chapter 16: Families in Later Life
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Q1) Pete claims that his brother and he are congenial siblings.Which of the following statements will strengthen Pete's claim?
A) They are indifferent and rarely think about each other.
B) They have had negative ties for a long time.
C) They are ready to help each other if it doesn't conflict other obligations.
D) They are available because of family bonds rather than affection or closeness.
Q2) Caroline drops in to visit her old parents once or twice a month and gives them some money for their upkeep.However, there are certain months where she doesn't visit them at all and just calls them occasionally.Which of the following styles of caregiving does Caroline follow?
A) contingent style
B) circumscribed style
C) sporadic style
D) backup style
Q3) ________ refers to the average number of years a person can expect to live.
A) Life expectancy
B) Life fitness
C) Living trajectory
D) Living will
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