Race, Class, and Gender Study Guide Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the complex and interconnected relationships between race, class, and gender in contemporary society. Students examine how these categories shape individual identities, social structures, and access to resources and opportunities. Through an interdisciplinary approach, the course analyzes historical and current issues such as systemic inequality, privilege, intersectionality, and social justice movements. By engaging with diverse perspectives, theoretical frameworks, and real-world case studies, students are encouraged to critically reflect on their own experiences while developing a deeper understanding of the ways in which race, class, and gender influence power dynamics within various institutions and communities.
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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) When we say that family diversity is "relational" we mean that
A) families involve social relationships.
B) good relationships ought to be the family ideal.
C) extended families are becoming more common.
D) the forms families take are related to the different forms other families take.
Answer: D
Q2) According to the text,despite changes in family images over time,an enduring theme in popular understanding suggests that
A) relationships among family members are expected to be stable and harmonious.
B) family is the locus of competition and violence.
C) relationships among family members are no longer idealized.
D) people do not take media images of the family seriously.
Answer: A
Q3) Talcott Parsons and other structural functionalists argued
A) diverse family forms are an essential feature of modern life.
B) the nuclear family is the "normal family" in modern society.
C) a "Big Bang" in family life occurred during the 1960s.
D) families are less and less important in modern society.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Preindustrial Families and the Emergence of a Modern Family Form
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Q1) During the time of transition to modern family life
A) families took on an increasing number of social functions.
B) families began to be sustained by members' wages.
C) the majority of married women with children took jobs in factories.
D) household boundaries expanded, incorporating a greater number of nonfamily individuals.
Answer: B
Q2) According to Coontz,marriages in 17 century England and Ireland
A) were often carefully negotiated.
B) could be more costly to families if young people were drawn together by love.
C) involved the expectation that wives would tolerate their husbands infidelity.
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Q3) Society's conception of childhood is one of the things that did not change with the emergence of the modern family.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Historical Making of Family Diversity
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Q1) During the 19 century,childhood
A) assumed a single "modern" form.
B) changed as most children began to work outside the home.
C) was unaffected by the separation of home and workplace.
D) took many forms, depending on class, ethnicity, gender, and religion.
Answer: D
Q2) The compadrazgo system among Chicano families refers to
A) a network of relatives including godparents and co-parents.
B) the social dislocation of Chicano families who moved from rural to urban environments.
C) the spirit of male dominance that is characteristic of Chicano families.
D) the emphasis on individualism found in Chicano families.
Answer: A
Q3) Recent historical research on Chicano families in the Southwest concludes that A) egalitarian gender roles were usually found in married couples.
B) despite economic hardship, women rarely worked outside the home.
C) children were almost never involved in farm labor.
D) frequently the labor of entire families- men, women, and children- was necessary for economic survival.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Families and the New Economic Realities
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Q1) As a result of the Great Recession,couples married earlier and more often.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The transformation of the U.S.economy has been cited as a major force in determining conditions of life for families.Discuss the major macrosocial forces that have combined to facilitate this transformation.
Q3) The "New Homeless" are often
A) former renters rather than former homeowners.
B) the underclass.
C) the long-term poor.
D) the working poor.
Q4) Offshoring involves moving corporate activity to countries with A) lower wages.
B) lower taxes.
C) lower benefits.
D) all of the above
Q5) A major source of bankruptcy is an inability to pay for catastrophic health care needs.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Families and Demographic Trends: the New
Immigration and the Aging of Society
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Q1) What percentage of recent immigrants are from non-European countries?
A) 10%
B) 50%
C) 75%
D) 90%
Q2) Which racial group has the longest life expectancy?
A) Whites
B) African Americans
C) Latinos
D) Asian Americans
Q3) Which of the following "societal earthquakes" have had a major effect on families?
A) globalization
B) the new immigration
C) the aging of society
D) all of the above
Q4) Gaining immigrant status in the United States generally requires a sponsor.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Class,Race,and Gender
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Q1) Scholars who use a gendered institutions approach to explaining gender in the family
A) contend that expressive and instrumental roles are complimentary.
B) cite research that frames family activities in terms of power and domination.
C) contend that families have a single, unified interest.
D) hold an image of family as fulfillment.
Q2) According to the "culture of poverty" thesis, A) lower-class individuals never succeed.
B) with the exception of having substantially less money, life among the poor is similar to the rest of society.
C) poverty is more a function of people's values and attitudes than of their physical environment.
D) alternative family structure among the poor are adaptive mechanisms.
Q3) Gender-based inequality creates different conditions for women and men even within the same family.
A)True
B)False
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) All of the following are documented in the text as coping strategies of working families except
A) sequencing life events.
B) split-shift parenting.
C) an even split of housework between men and women.
D) reducing standards for domestic work.
Q2) "Sequencing" life events is a coping strategy often used by women to minimize the conflicting demands of work and family roles.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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.
Q4) Hochschild found that women's "second shift" activities in the home add up to
A) fewer hours than men spend in maintaining yards and household machines.
B) more time than full-time homemakers spend on domestic activities.
C) the delegation of work to husbands and children.
D) an extra month of work each year.
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Chapter 8: The Social Construction of Intimacy
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Q1) In general,women and men (ages 18-44) think about sex with equal frequency and find the same sexual practices to be equally appealing.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Interracial relationships are likely to form in which settings?
A) metropolitan areas
B) the military
C) colleges and universities
D) all of the above
Q3) An important factor contributing to sexual permissiveness is
A) commercial advertising.
B) prolonged adolescence.
C) sex surveys.
D) all of the above
Q4) Cultural standards of beauty can be a factor in dating.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Hypergamy describes a situation in which a woman marries a man of higher status. A)True
B)False
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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) Why is it important to differentiate between ideology and behavior in the study of marital power in racial ethnic families?
Q3) The power advantage of middle-class husbands over wives
A) is neutralized by egalitarian gender role ideology.
B) is enhanced by their resources and occupational status.
C) is less than that of working-class husbands, who tend to embrace traditional gender role ideology.
D) none of the above
Q4) The text concludes which of the following about the future of marriage?
A) Marriage is a dying institution.
B) It is quite likely that the Religious Right will reestablish the dominance of traditional marriage in the United States.
C) Marriage is changing because "family values" are no longer important in this society.
D) Marriage is changing because the social conditions have changed markedly.
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Chapter 10: Parents and Children
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Q1) In general,the higher the woman's family income,the fewer children she will bear.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Several trends are cited in the text as factors contributing to the predominance of relatively small families in contemporary U.S.society.Discuss these trends and the consequences that small family size has for its members.
Q3) The approximate percentage of families headed by a single parent is
A) 13%.
B) 25%.
C) 55%.
D) none of the above
Q4) The majority of U.S.mothers with school-age children are in the paid workforce.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The most common model for families with children in contemporary U.S.society is A) a dual-earner family with children.
B) a single adult and dependent children.
C) a breadwinner husband, stay-at-home wife, and dependent children.
D) a multigenerational household.
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Chapter 11: Violence in Families
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Q1) Which of the following factors may help explain differences in child abuse patterns across race?
A) differing rates of alcoholism
B) Variation may represent social class differences more than racial differences.
C) Racial minorities may place a lower value on children than do Whites.
D) all of the above
Q2) The most prevalent form of domestic violence is
A) spouse battering.
B) child abuse by parents.
C) elder abuse.
D) marital rape.
Q3) According to the text,authorities who observe potential child abuse
A) are usually more suspicious of violence in poor families than middle-class families.
B) are the best potential source of data about child abuse.
C) are usually correct in their assessments of child abuse across social class.
D) have no power to protect the children they suspect of being abused.
Q4) What personal and social factors make it difficult for battered wives to leave abusive relationships?
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Chapter 12: Divorce and Remarriage
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Q1) Remarriages that involve children from previous marriages encounter many obstacles to stability.Discuss some of the challenges and difficulties faced by blended families.
Q2) Sociological research on remarriage suggests that
A) age is the most significant factor in the likelihood of men's remarriage.
B) most divorced men remarry older, well-educated women.
C) divorce rates in remarriages are slightly higher than those of first marriages.
D) Blacks tend to remarry earlier than either Whites or Hispanics.
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) Among Arab-Americans,
A) the divorce rate is higher for the first generation.
B) the divorce rate stays about the same for the first three generations.
C) over 80% of U.S.-born Arabs have non-Arab spouses.
D) the divorce rate is higher than the U.S. population in general.
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) According to the U.S.Census,a household is two or more persons related by birth,marriage,or adoption who live together.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A recent study of African American's attitudes toward commuting found that commuting was viewed as a way to combat which obstacle?
A) employment limitations
B) restrictive assumptions about one's skills and abilities
C) racial stereotypes and oppression
D) all of the above
Q3) The situation in which the number of single women relative to single men increases with age is referred to as
A) reconstituted family options.
B) the marriage squeeze.
C) the mating gradient.
D) the manifest function of singlehood.
Q4) The proportion of the U.S.population living in alternative domestic arrangements has increased markedly.Discuss the social and structural factors that have contributed to this increase.
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Chapter 14: Family Policy for the Twenty-First Century
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Q1) Since 1980,the U.S.abortion rate has been
A) increasing.
B) declining.
C) static.
D) the lowest among developing nations.
Q2) Which of the following is not a provision of the 1996 welfare legislation?
A) Children are entitled to assistance for as long as they need it.
B) Unmarried teen parents must live at home and go to school to receive assistance.
C) Welfare receipt is limited to a lifetime total of five years.
D) Federal funding for welfare is capped, with no provision for inflation or population growth.
Q3) Services such as prenatal care and preschool education have been shown to save public dollars in the long run.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The 1996 Welfare Act placed a five-year lifetime limit on welfare receipt.
A)True
B)False
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