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Gender Studies explores the social, cultural, and political constructions of gender and sexuality across different societies and historical periods. The course examines the intersections of gender with race, class, ethnicity, and other social categories, analyzing how power and privilege influence individual identities and societal structures. Through critical engagement with feminist and queer theories, students investigate representations of gender in media, literature, and art, as well as contemporary debates on gender equality, rights, and activism. The course encourages critical thinking and active discussion to understand and challenge stereotypes, discrimination, and systems of oppression, while promoting respect for diversity and inclusion.
Recommended Textbook Diversity in Families 10th Edition by Maxine Baca Zinn
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Chapter 1: Images,Ideals,and Myths
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Q1) Myths are beliefs that are held uncritically and without examination.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Because nearly everyone has experience as a member of a family,it is relatively easy to arrive at an objective understanding of families.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The structural diversity model holds that
A) human agency is no match for the larger forces of society.
B) we should study human agency rather than social forces.
C) families adapt to and may change their social environment.
D) families are becoming less diverse.
Answer: C
Q4) Myths and images about families influence our expectations and assumptions about family life.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Preindustrial Families and the Emergence of a Modern Family Form
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Q1) With the transition to the wage economy,households began to incorporate a variety of non-kin members.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Social history focuses primarily on the lives and experiences of upper-class individuals.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Social historians studying U.S.families of the past have focused primarily on A) the diaries of upper-class people.
B) the experiences of ordinary people.
C) the Industrial Revolution.
D) the image of family in the media.
Answer: B
Q4) The wage economy greatly increased women's access to productive work. A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Historical Making of Family Diversity
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Q1) Postrevisionist scholars criticize Gutman's conclusions about African-American families,arguing that his view
A) ignores the many social conditions that worked against marriage.
B) provides a romantic justification of marriage.
C) assumes couples living together were married.
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Q2) 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
Q3) A "family wage" is a wage paid to men that is sufficient to support his family at a decent standard of living.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Families and the New Economic Realities
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of an activity in the "underground economy"?
A) babysitting
B) selling food
C) doing yard work
D) all of the above
Q2) Discuss the coping strategies families use to adapt to higher costs and lower pay.
Q3) Stacey finds that the household arrangements that characterize the "postmodern" family form are new to all except which group?
A) upper-class families
B) middle-class families
C) working-class families
D) poor families
Q4) Which of the following family forms increased as a result of the Great Recession?
A) multigenerational households
B) Adult children living with their parents.
C) Unhappily married couples living under one roof.
D) all of the above
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Chapter 5: Families and Demographic Trends: the New
Immigration and the Aging of Society
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Q1) Asian American families are strictly patriarchal.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following generalizations about race and aging is inaccurate?
A) The median net worth of older White families is far higher than that of older African American families.
B) The life expectancy of Whites is longer than the life expectancy of racial minorities.
C) The poverty rates of elderly Americans in all racial groups are approximately the same.
D) Racial minorities are less likely than Whites to receive full-time skilled nursing home care.
Q3) Early twentieth-century immigration legislation excluded female migrants.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Retreating from relationships,organizations,and society is known as
A) disengagement.
B) release.
C) withdrawal.
D) none of the above
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Chapter 6: Class,Race,and Gender
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Q1) Which of the following is a key point in the structural explanation of class differences?
A) The poor are not as motivated as the non-poor.
B) A large segment of the poor is trapped by welfare dependency.
C) The networks between families and institutions which provide opportunities and resources are shaped by social class.
D) Ghetto life encourages the development of self-defeating behaviors which perpetuate underclass status.
Q2) Recent research suggests that poor single mothers
A) are generally unwilling to work.
B) use various survival strategies involving work, network support, and outside assistance.
C) do not usually turn to family and friends for help.
D) do not expect to be self-sufficient.
Q3) A recent study shows that young refugees from Africa
A) draw their identity from society rather than family.
B) experience little racial discrimination.
C) come to include fictive kin as part of their families.
D) tend to reject family expectations.
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Chapter 7: Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family
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Q1) 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
Q2) Which of the following has dramatically increased,as a proportion of working class jobs?
A) men in manufacturing jobs
B) teenagers in manufacturing
C) women in care sector jobs
D) men in the skilled trades
Q3) The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 is the only national legislation concerned with family leave following the birth of a child.This legislation provides which of the following:
A) Employers of 50 or more persons must provide 12 weeks of unpaid leave.
B) Employers of 50 or more persons must provide 12 weeks of paid leave.
C) All employers must provide 12 weeks of unpaid leave.
D) All employers must provide 12 weeks of paid leave.
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Chapter 8: The Social Construction of Intimacy
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Q1) An important factor contributing to sexual permissiveness is
A) commercial advertising.
B) prolonged adolescence.
C) sex surveys.
D) all of the above
Q2) Recent research on interracial dating finds
A) more than 50% of African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Asian-Americans "interdate."
B) women are more likely than men to "interdate."
C) the quality of interracial relationships tends to be much lower than intraracial relationships.
D) all of the above
Q3) The text makes which of the following points about human sexuality?
A) Sexuality is a power system.
B) Sexuality exhibits variability across time and space.
C) Sexuality is related to a society's systems of class, race, and gender.
D) all of the above
Q4) How does the educational system in the United States function to encourage intra-class patterns of courtship and mate selection?
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Chapter 9: Contemporary Marriages
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Q1) Traditional expectations about marriage in the United States have held that individuals should marry as young adults,should have children,and that marriage lasts a lifetime.Looking at recent trends,discuss how these expectations compare to reality.
Q2) Which of the following has been found to be a benefit of marriage?
A) better mental health than single individuals
B) more and better sex than single individuals
C) more economic resources than single individuals
D) all of the above
Q3) Since 1970,the percentage of never-married individuals in the 30 to 34 age group in the United States has
A) declined by 10%.
B) remained the same.
C) tripled.
D) become overwhelmingly homosexual.
Q4) Over the past three decades,the median age of first marriage in the United States has gone up for men,but has fallen for women.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Parents and Children
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Q1) Current trends in fertility have been unaffected by the legalization of abortion in 1973.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Dual-earner families and single-parent families frequently depend on paid daycare.What is known about how daycare affects children? Is the quality of care uniform in this society? Explain.
Q3) Which of the following is the most common path to voluntary childlessness?
A) Couples decide before they marry that they will not have children.
B) Couples postpone childbearing until they decide it is no longer a desirable choice.
C) Couples who intend to have children are pressured by their extended families not to have children.
D) The answers above are three equally common paths.
Q4) Latinas are the racial-ethnic group with the highest fertility rate.
A)True
B)False
Q5) 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) Sibling abuse is most likely to occur in families where
A) siblings are at least two years apart in age.
B) there is physical abuse by the parents.
C) parents are not home in the after-school hours.
D) the siblings consist of one male and one female.
Q2) Which of the following is a factor that contributes to the abuse of the elderly?
A) the ageism found in U.S. society
B) the stress that is generated by the responsibilities of caregiving
C) the financial burden of providing for the needs of an elderly family member
D) all of the above
Q3) Women are more likely than men to be perpetrators of physical abuse against children.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The most common type of incest is A) between parents and children. B) between grandparents and their grandchildren.
C) between siblings. D) unknown.
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Chapter 12: Divorce and Remarriage
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Q1) During the Iraq War,the divorce rate among U.S.Army personnel
A) declined, as couples pulled together to the face the challenge.
B) stayed the same.
C) went up among enlisted personnel and down among officers.
D) went up among enlisted personnel and officers.
Q2) Remarriages that involve children from previous marriages encounter many obstacles to stability.Discuss some of the challenges and difficulties faced by blended families.
Q3) Among industrial nations,the United States has both a high marriage rate and a high divorce rate.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Divorce in binational marriages
A) is now relatively easy because of similar laws in most countries. B) can be expensive and legally complicated.
C) is settled at the International Court at the Hague.
D) is still very rare.
Q5) Divorce rates increased during the economic problems of 2007 and 2009.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Emergent Families in the Global Era
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Q1) Which of the following does not characterize commuter couples?
A) They compartmentalize their lives into two areas: work and family.
B) They experience loneliness and lack of companionship.
C) They are less committed to their marital relationships than traditional couples.
D) Generally, both husbands and wives have professional employment.
Q2) Commuter marriages are largely the result of women's increased entry into professional employment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Heterosexual cohabiting households increased by this percentage in the last two decades.
A) 25%
B) 50%
C) 150%
D) 200%
Q4) Cohabitation and the single life may be seen as a reflection of both choice and structural constraints.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Family Policy for the Twenty-First Century
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Q1) Recent data on abortions in the United States finds that
A) a majority of those who have abortions are already mothers.
B) a majority of those who have abortions are in their twenties.
C) fewer than 1% are done after 24 weeks.
D) all of the above
Q2) Which of the following is not consistent with the progressive perspective on the family?
A) Social policies must support today's diverse family forms.
B) Policies that promote traditional families are likely to be ineffective because this family form is incompatible with contemporary social realities.
C) Trends observed among U.S. families are generally unique to this society.
D) Global economic restructuring has reshaped U.S. families.
Q3) Which of the following is true of restrictions on abortion?
A) Most Americans are opposed to restrictions on abortion.
B) Many states have restrictions on abortion.
C) The Supreme Court has found that restrictions on abortion are unconstitutional.
D) State restrictions on abortion have not affected the availability of abortion.
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