Marriage and Family Relations Exam Review
Course Introduction
Marriage and Family Relations explores the dynamics, development, and challenges of intimate relationships and family structures within various cultural and societal contexts. The course examines topics such as courtship, marriage, parenting, communication, conflict resolution, gender roles, and the impact of social change on families. Students will analyze theoretical perspectives, current research, and real-life scenarios to better understand how marriages and families adapt across the lifespan, with an emphasis on promoting healthy, resilient relationships.
Recommended Textbook
Diversity in Families 10th Edition by Maxine Baca Zinn
Available Study Resources on Quizplus
14 Chapters
675 Verified Questions
675 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/study-set/2076 Page 2
Chapter 1: Images,Ideals,and Myths
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
50 Verified Questions
50 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/41340
Sample Questions
Q1) Research on family violence finds that
A) most murder cases involve relatives or intimates.
B) women are rarely violent in the context of family.
C) family violence decreased with the popularization of the family as haven image.
D) all of the above
Answer: A
Q2) Family Darwinism means
A) family success or failure is the result of how "fit" a specific family form is.
B) family relationships are largely determined by genes.
C) the leader of each family emerges out of a struggle for power.
D) sibling relationships are shaped by the struggle for power.
Answer: A
Q3) Which of the following is a component of a macro level analysis of families?
A) a focus on internal dynamics of nuclear families
B) a focus on the ways structures such as race, class, and gender shape families
C) a focus on relationships in extended families
D) none of the above
Answer: B
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
3
Chapter 2: Preindustrial Families and the Emergence of a Modern Family Form
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
46 Verified Questions
46 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/41341
Sample Questions
Q1) Which of the following accurately describes family life in colonial America?
A) Sharp boundaries existed between family and community life.
B) Family privacy was complete-communities did not get involved in family matters.
C) Men, women, and children worked in a household enterprise to ensure family survival.
D) all of the above
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following does not characterize child rearing in the colonial period of the United States?
A) Children were sometimes viewed as miniature adults.
B) Child rearing practices were more genteel outside New England.
C) Corporal punishment was viewed as appropriate.
D) Children were viewed in a sentimental way.
Answer: D
Q3) In the colonial United States,neighbors and other community members frequently intervened in family matters.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 4
Chapter 3: The Historical Making of Family Diversity
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
51 Verified Questions
51 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/41342
Sample Questions
Q1) Your text uses all except which of the following as a central theme in understanding the social history of American families?
A) family breakdown
B) uneven change
C) diversity
D) human agency
Answer: A
Q2) Men's family responsibilities under the "cult of domesticity" were primarily economic.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Page 5
Chapter 4: Families and the New Economic Realities
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
44 Verified Questions
44 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/41343
Sample Questions
Q1) By 2010,the unemployment rate reached over A) 2%.
B) 5%.
C) 8%.
D) 10%.
Q2) The postmodern form of family life is new to the poor.
A)True
B)False
Q3) New technologies have magnified the connections among all peoples worldwide.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to Zaretsky's analysis,the shift from private capitalism to industrial capitalism
A) gave rise to the organization of family life around the separate work of men and women.
B) necessitated the home-based computer work of women.
C) was not as significant to family life as was the shift from nomadic to agricultural society.
D) all of the above
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 6
Chapter 5: Families and Demographic Trends: the New
Immigration and the Aging of Society
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
40 Verified Questions
40 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/41344
Sample Questions
Q1) Which of the following is the health insurance program for those 65 and older?
A) Medicaid
B) ACA
C) Obamacare
D) Medicare
Q2) Kibria found in her study of immigrant Vietnamese families that
A) husbands and wives became more equal after migration to the United States.
B) gender inequality became more extreme than had been the case in Vietnam.
C) in general, men gained prestige in the family due to their ability to find high status work in the United States.
D) none of the above
Q3) Which of the following regarding the elderly and health care is inaccurate?
A) The elderly consume more than one-third of all health care in the United States.
B) The elderly are four times as likely as the non-elderly to be hospitalized.
C) Fifty percent of the elderly have Alzheimer's disease.
D) Osteoarthritis affects about half of those age 65 and older.
Q4) The 65-and-older category is the fastest growing segment of the U.S.population.
A)True
B)False
Page 7
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 6: Class,Race,and Gender
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
51 Verified Questions
51 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/41345
Sample Questions
Q1) Referring to Asian-Americans as the "model minority"
A) ignores the ethnic diversity within this group.
B) is based on statistics showing nearly all Asian-Americans are very successful.
C) is based on the low level of discrimination experienced by Asian-Americans in the past.
D) is based on the fact that Asian-Americans are recent immigrants.
Q2) Culture of poverty theories blame culture for obscuring the extent of child poverty that exists in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The concept of public patriarchy refers to
A) male dominance of the institutions of the larger society.
B) male dominance in extended family relations.
C) a husband's domination of his wife in a public place.
D) societies in which patriarchy is enforced through the legal system.
Q4) What are the key issues in the "Underclass Debate"? Present the two models,culture and structure.
Q5) Distinguish between public and private patriarchy,giving examples of male privilege in each.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 8
Chapter 7: Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
52 Verified Questions
52 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/41346
Sample Questions
Q1) Which of the following describes trends in U.S.labor force participation by gender?
A) Women's labor force participation has increased, while men's has decreased.
B) Women's labor force participation has increased, while men's has held steady.
C) Both women's and men's labor force participation has increased.
D) Women's labor force participation has begun to drop, while men's is increasing.
Q2) According to Gerson and Jacobs,between 1970 and 2000 dual-earner couples
A) increased from 10% to 25% of married couples.
B) saw their average number of hours worked increase.
C) saw their average number of hours worked stay the same.
D) worked fewer hours and teens worked more hours.
Q3) Which state was the first to offer paid family leave?
A) New York
B) California
C) Massachusetts
D) Florida
Q4) Discuss the new demand for adolescent workers.What has caused that demand?
How do adolescents use their earnings?
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
9
Chapter 8: The Social Construction of Intimacy
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
49 Verified Questions
49 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/41347
Sample Questions
Q1) Research on the role of schools in the process of mate selection has found that A) neighborhood schools promote cross-class relationships because they are no longer homogeneous by social class.
B) the restrictive membership policies of fraternities and sororities discourage heterogeneous dating experiences among college youth.
C) tuition differentials that formerly produced intra-class patterns of courtship have been eradicated by financial aid programs.
D) there are no significant relationships between schools and mate selection.
Q2) Teen childbearing is at the highest rate ever in U.S.history.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 10
Chapter 9: Contemporary Marriages
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
55 Verified Questions
55 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/41348
Sample Questions
Q1) Contemporary research on the benefits of marriage finds that
A) full-time housewives are happier than women who juggle family and paid employment.
B) marriage has a greater positive effect on men's health than it does on women's health.
C) single men are healthier than single women.
D) all of the above
Q2) Interracial marriage is
A) more common among younger than older Americans.
B) more common among less educated than more educated Americans.
C) more common in areas with miscegenation laws.
D) all of the above
Q3) Which of the following does Coontz identify as an obstacle in the past to the acceptance of the belief that marriage is primarily about personal happiness and self-fulfillment?
A) extended families encouraging couples to conform
B) unreliable birth control
C) seeing men and women as vastly different
D) all of the above
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Page 11
Chapter 10: Parents and Children
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
51 Verified Questions
51 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/41349
Sample Questions
Q1) 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.
Q2) Siblings
A) spend half as much time together as they spend with their parents.
B) have less influence on each other than peers.
C) who are older are likely to increase the chances of a younger sibling drinking or smoking.
D) all of the above
Q3) Pronatalism is the high value society places on having children.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is meant by the term "boomerang generation"?
A) adult children who, after living on their own, move back home to live with their parents
B) the generation that follows the baby boom generation
C) adults who provide care for both their children and their aged parents
D) the large group of biracial children born over the past 20 years
Q5) How do the costs and benefits of having children differ between high and low socioeconomic status groups?
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 12
Chapter 11: Violence in Families
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
48 Verified Questions
48 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/41350
Sample Questions
Q1) Research on the incidence of incest in the United States suggests that
A) women are equally likely to be the perpetrators of incest as males.
B) most child victims of incest attempt to report the behavior to authorities.
C) most incest victims are female.
D) the incidence of child sexual abuse appears to be declining in the 1990s.
Q2) How do the norms of family privacy contribute to the proliferation of family violence?
Q3) Which of the following factors is strongly associated with wife abuse?
A) verbally aggressive interaction patterns
B) alcohol abuse
C) inadequacy of husbands
D) all of the above
Q4) Under what types of conditions is wife-abuse most likely to occur? Discuss both contextual and personal factors.
Q5) Viewing violence in the media
A) is not associated with more aggressive behavior among children.
B) tends to desensitize people to real violence.
C) tends to decrease one's fear of real violence.
D) all of the above
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 13
Chapter 12: Divorce and Remarriage
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
47 Verified Questions
47 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/41351
Sample Questions
Q1) Approximately what percentage of divorced men remarry?
A) 25%
B) 50%
C) 75%
D) 90%
Q2) In which of the following areas are the post-divorce experiences of men more negative than those of women?
A) financial
B) maintaining relationships with children
C) loss of social status
D) loss of marital friends
Q3) Which of the following explains this relationship: the older a woman is at the time of divorce,the lower her chances of remarriage.
A) Men have shorter life expectancies, so the pool of eligible men shrinks as women age.
B) As women age, they are viewed as much less desirable partners.
C) Divorced men tend to marry women several years younger than themselves.
D) all of the above
Q4) How do rates and patterns of remarriage differ by gender?
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 14
Chapter 13: Emergent Families in the Global Era
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
46 Verified Questions
46 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/41352
Sample Questions
Q1) Current trends in household and family patterns in the United States are not limited to the United States,but represent global trends.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The primary concern of the domestic partner movement is
A) providing family benefits to individuals in long-term committed relationships.
B) legalizing marriage between same-sex partners.
C) raising public consciousness about AIDS.
D) creating legal distinctions between benefits for cohabiting heterosexuals and benefits for their homosexual counterparts.
Q3) The "marriage squeeze" refers to the pressure society exerts on cohabiting couples to marry.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to the best estimates,approximately 20% of the U.S.population is homosexual.
A)True
B)False
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Page 15
Chapter 14: Family Policy for the Twenty-First Century
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
45 Verified Questions
45 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/41353
Sample Questions
Q1) 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.
Q2) 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?
Q3) Which of the following is not one of the authors' family policy recommendations?
A) universal health insurance
B) local funding of all programs
C) paid maternity leave
D) job training for young single mothers
Q4) Since 1980,the U.S.abortion rate has been
A) increasing.
B) declining.
C) static.
D) the lowest among developing nations.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 16