Family Studies
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Family Studies explores the dynamics, structures, and functions of families across diverse cultures and societies. The course examines the roles and relationships within families, the stages of family life cycles, and the social, economic, and psychological factors influencing family life. Topics include marriage, parenting, communication, family diversity, and the impact of contemporary issues such as technology and policy on family structures. Through theoretical perspectives and practical case studies, students gain insights into family development, interpersonal relationships, and strategies for promoting healthy family environments.
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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) The myth of the monolithic family form embodies all of the following features except A) the family is nuclear in form.
B) the family consists of mother, father, and their children.
C) single parents and their children are identified as families.
D) the family exhibits a gendered division of labor.
Answer: C
Q2) The belief that families operate on the principles of harmony and love,generating very little conflict or violence,is part of the myth of
A) a monolithic family form.
B) separate worlds.
C) a unified family experience.
D) family consensus.
Answer: D
Q3) To analyze the family using a sociological perspective,one must A) promote the nuclear family ideal.
B) understand the larger social context in which families are embedded.
C) engage in micro-level analysis of family interaction.
D) all of the above
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Preindustrial Families and the Emergence of a Modern Family Form
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Q1) The form of economic system that emerged with the industrialization of society has been referred to as the
A) consumer-based economy.
B) family-wage economy.
C) family-based economy.
D) nuclear family economy.
Answer: B
Q2) The most important themes to emerge from historical studies of the family are all except which of the following?
A) the diversity in family types
B) the uneven change in family patterns
C) an ever-increasing divorce rate
D) the social agency of family members
Answer: C
Q3) Social history focuses primarily on the lives and experiences of upper-class individuals.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Historical Making of Family Diversity
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Q1) Which of the following activities can be categorized as social reproduction?
A) cooking
B) cleaning
C) providing emotional support
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Q2) The "Cult of True Womanhood"
A) was an ideal achieved by most women in the 19 century.
B) resulted in greater economic self-sufficiency for women.
C) required women of upper classes to relinquish servants and perform the domestic work in their households.
D) created a class of "ladies" who had leisure time to pursue individual interests.
Answer: D
Q3) The "Tangle of Pathology" identified in the Moynihan Report was A) the matriarchal family.
B) racial discrimination.
C) the high rate of crime.
D) drug abuse.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Families and the New Economic Realities
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Q1) The postmodern family is a nuclear family with a male breadwinner and a female homemaker.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Offshoring is when a company moves its production to another country,producing the same products in the same way,but with cheaper labor,lower taxes and lower benefits to workers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Manufacturing employment in the United States
A) increased throughout the 20 century.
B) has declined since 2000.
C) still accounts for more than half of all jobs.
D) was associated with low wages and poor benefits.
Q4) Real wages reached only reached their peak recently.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the coping strategies families use to adapt to higher costs and lower pay.
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Chapter 5: Families and Demographic Trends: the New
Immigration and the Aging of Society
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Q1) Which of the following groups of Latinos is most economically advantaged and educated?
A) Cubans
B) Puerto Ricans
C) Mexicans
D) Central and South Americans
Q2) Retreating from relationships,organizations,and society is known as A) disengagement.
B) release.
C) withdrawal.
D) none of the above
Q3) Gaining immigrant status in the United States generally requires a sponsor.
A)True
B)False
Q4) More than one-half of all children in the United States are non-White.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The 65-and-older category is the fastest growing segment of the U.S.population. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Class,Race,and Gender
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Q1) The idea of "life chances" refers to
A) the opportunities one has to live and experience the good things in society.
B) the probability that a child will reach adulthood without being a victim of crime.
C) the likelihood of moving up in the social class structure.
D) none of the above
Q2) The Hispanic group with the highest rate of poverty are Mexicans and Puerto Ricans.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the text,the major problem of cultural approaches to racial-ethnic family problems is that they
A) view the family as the primary institution of society rather than one largely shaped by social forces.
B) transfer the blame from minority families to the dominant culture.
C) fail to account for the positive effects of affirmative action policies.
D) assume that ethnic families can never adopt modern customs.
Q4) Race,class,and gender are hierarchies of stratification in U.S.society.Discuss how each of these is a system of power and subordination.
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Chapter 7: Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family
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Q1) According to the text,dual-earner families
A) outnumber families in which only the husband is employed two to one.
B) are likely to have no pre-school age children.
C) comprise less than 10% of U.S. families.
D) usually divide household labor evenly between spouses.
Q2) Research finds that which of the following is a major reason women increasingly work in the paid labor force?
A) They find it personally fulfilling.
B) They are concerned about their long-term income.
C) They are concerned about Social Security and employer benefits.
D) all of the above
Q3) Men's work patterns in the contemporary United States have been most altered by A) increasing pressure to combine work and family roles. B) feminism.
C) macro level change that has redistributed jobs.
D) paternity leave.
Q4) 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) Online dating and matchmaking has
A) increased among younger and older internet users.
B) been shown to lead to weak marriages.
C) been used by only a small percentage of individuals looking for a partner.
D) all of the above
Q2) Discuss the sexual revolution in the United States.What social,demographic,and economic factors contributed to that change?
Q3) Sociologists suggest early sexual activity among poor youth is a substitute for other non-attainable forms of gratification.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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.
Q5) Between 2005 and 2006,teenage births increased slightly for A) Latino teens.
B) White teens.
C) African American teens.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
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Chapter 9: Contemporary Marriages
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Q1) Which of the following is seen as the most important factor in increasing women's marital power?
A) women's employment
B) women outperforming men in terms of prestige and money
C) Gender norms are being changed in society.
D) all of the above
Q2) Which of the following is a microstructural dynamic that patterns marriages?
A) racism
B) husbands' and wives' communication styles
C) the law
D) the segmented labor force
Q3) Because of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA),the federal government counts legally-married same-sex couples as
A) married couples.
B) legally-united couples.
C) single individuals.
D) unmarried partners.
Q4) It is estimated that about half of all U.S.marriages will end in divorce.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Parents and Children
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Q1) Single parents experience which of the following sources of strain?
A) responsibility overload
B) task overload
C) emotional overload
D) all of the above
Q2) The birth of a child usually results in an improvement in marital satisfaction.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements about assisted reproductive technologies is accurate?
A) These technologies have the potential to create legal dilemmas about the establishment of parental status.
B) The cost of these procedures has declined so sufficiently that they are now affordable for individuals of even modest economic resources.
C) Use of fertility drugs has had no significant impact on the rate of multiple births in the United States.
D) all of the above
Q4) How do the costs and benefits of having children differ between high and low socioeconomic status groups?
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Chapter 11: Violence in Families
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Q1) The text makes which of the following points about domestic violence in same-sex relationships?
A) Domestic violence has never been documented in these relationships.
B) The rate of abuse in these relationships is approximately the same as in heterosexual relationships.
C) The rate of abuse is much higher in same-sex relationships than in heterosexual relationships.
D) Victims of abuse in same-sex relationships have many more resources at their disposal than do women who are abused by their husbands.
Q2) Violence by wives against husbands
A) never occurs.
B) is usually perpetrated by wives with higher status than their husbands.
C) is as common as incidents of fathers abusing their children.
D) occurs infrequently compared to violence by husbands against wives.
Q3) Research on gender and perpetration of child abuse suggests that
A) women are more likely than men to physically abuse their children.
B) women and men are equally likely to physically abuse their children.
C) men are more likely than women to physically abuse their children.
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Chapter 12: Divorce and Remarriage
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Q1) An important factor in remarried couples' difficulties is
A) most remarried couples are not sufficiently committed to marriage.
B) society does not provide guidelines for managing the problems remarried couples face.
C) younger children are not willing to consider the stepparent a "real" parent.
D) none of the above
Q2) Discuss the historical trends in divorce in the United States since 1860.What social and economic conditions account for the upward or downward swings in the divorce rate?
Q3) Divorce is most likely in which of the following income groups?
A) high income
B) middle income
C) low income
D) The divorce rate is similar across income groups.
Q4) Which of the following does not describe patterns of remarriage?
A) The more money a divorced man has, the more likely he is to remarry.
B) The more money a divorced woman has, the more likely she is to remarry.
C) Whites remarry sooner than Blacks.
D) Catholics are likely to delay remarriage.
Q5) 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) Which of the following is not a global trend in family life and household formation?
A) The proportion of female-headed households has declined.
B) Women's age of first marriage and first birth has risen.
C) Families have gotten smaller.
D) Women's labor force participation has increased while men's has decreased.
Q2) Sharp and Ganong find that college-educated,single women,28 to 34, A) mostly wanted to marry.
B) had mixed feelings about marriage.
C) enjoyed their independence.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
Q3) How are lesbians and gays broadening conventional understandings of the definition of "family"? Discuss the "chosen" kinship networks of gay families.
Q4) Demographers estimate that over one-quarter of young adults in the United States will choose singlehood as a permanent lifestyle.
A)True
B)False
Q5) 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) Which of the following statements does not accurately describe Head Start?
A) Head Start programs have been documented to raise IQ scores of poor children.
B) Head Start serves nearly all children who are eligible for the program.
C) Head Start is inadequately funded.
D) Head Start prepares children for school.
Q2) What percentage of pregnancies in the United States are unplanned?
A) 15%
B) 26%
C) 50%
D) 62%
Q3) Which of the following is not part of the 1996 welfare legislation?
A) Welfare is funded by federal block grants to the states.
B) All recipients who are required to work are guaranteed a job.
C) Welfare is a program administered by the states.
D) Legal immigrants are denied access to many benefits.
Q4) Although the 1996 welfare legislation has reduced the number of welfare recipients,some analysts are skeptical about the outcome of this legislation.What are some of the concerns related to the long-term outcome of welfare reform?
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