Race, Class, and Gender Test Preparation
Course Introduction
This course explores the intersections of race, class, and gender in shaping individual experiences and societal structures. Through a multidimensional analysis, students examine historical and contemporary issues related to identity, systemic inequality, and social justice. The course incorporates perspectives from sociology, history, and cultural studies to analyze how power, privilege, and oppression operate within social institutions. By engaging with diverse readings, case studies, and discussions, students develop critical thinking skills and a deeper understanding of the ways race, class, and gender inform social relations and public policy.
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 can be described as
A) beliefs that have little to do with moral values.
B) beliefs that are held without examination or scrutiny.
C) beliefs that are often based in actual fact.
D) beliefs that challenge nostalgic images of the past.
Answer: B
Q2) The definitions of the terms "household" and "family" are nearly identical.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The authors make which of the following points regarding change in American families?
A) We should be alarmed about how family change will affect other social institutions.
B) Changes in families reflect changed circumstances in other areas of society.
C) Family change has caused an increase in the rate of violent crime, but has not influenced the teen pregnancy rate.
D) none 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) Social history focuses primarily on the lives and experiences of upper-class individuals.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Colonial children's lives were dominated by the "three Rs." Which of the following is not one of these "three Rs?"
A) Religion
B) Repression
C) Respect
D) Recreation
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following is not one of the effects of industrialization on middle-class women's roles?
A) Women became the moral guardians of the home.
B) Married women increased their participation in the public sphere.
C) Caretaking and nurturing became primary roles.
D) Women's and men's roles overlapped far less than in the preindustrial United States.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: The Historical Making of Family Diversity
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Q1) According to Gutman,which of the following statements accurately portrays Black families during slavery?
A) "Matrifocal" households were the dominant form.
B) House slaves chose long term family relationships, but slaves in "the quarters" were very promiscuous.
C) Two parent families were the dominant form.
D) The dominant form was what is today referred to as female-headed family households.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following would not be considered a virtue of True Womanhood?
A) piety
B) purity
C) assertiveness
D) domesticity
Answer: C
Q3) The historical circumstances of European immigration are very similar to those of Chicano immigration.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Families and the New Economic Realities
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Q1) The new economy
A) shifts demand from physical labor to cognitive abilities.
B) moves manufacturing to countries with cheaper labor.
C) moves white collar jobs to countries with cheaper labor.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
Q2) A major source of bankruptcy is an inability to pay for catastrophic health care needs.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Offshoring involves moving corporate activity to countries with A) lower wages.
B) lower taxes.
C) lower benefits.
D) all of the above
Q4) By 2010,the unemployment rate reached over A) 2%.
B) 5%.
C) 8%.
D) 10%.
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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 accurately describes the geographic distribution of the immigrant population?
A) The Asian population is concentrated on the West Coast of the United States.
B) California has a large concentration of Latinos.
C) Recent immigrants have tended to settle on the West Coast, the East Coast, and in the Southwest.
D) all of the above
Q2) These types of families consist of both undocumented immigrants and U.S.citizens or legal residents.
A) binational
B) transnational
C) multinational
D) trinational
Q3) The racial minority population is growing at a faster rate than the White population.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Use the case studies of Mexican and Vietnamese immigration to discuss the effects of immigration on family dynamics.Present evidence of both continuity and change.
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Chapter 6: Class,Race,and Gender
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Q1) The family economies of the middle class are distinguished from those of the lower and working classes by
A) middle class links with non-familial institutions, such as banks.
B) the higher likelihood of two-earner families.
C) the middle class tendency to depend on families for financial help.
D) none of the above
Q2) 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.
Q3) An important consequence of social stratification is diminished life chances for those on the bottom of the hierarchy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Distinguish between public and private patriarchy,giving examples of male privilege in each.
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Chapter 7: Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family
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Q1) The 24-7 economy has impacted family life in which of the following ways?
A) An increasing number of couples work different hours.
B) Family members are frequently required to work weekends or second/third shifts.
C) Family members have less time to be together and share family activities.
D) all of the above
Q2) According to the text,"kin work" refers to the labor of extended kin in family-owned businesses.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Research by Bianchi,Robinson,and Milkie shows that,compared to 25 years ago,
A) parents are spending more time playing with or talking to their children.
B) leisure-time has become less family-centered.
C) married parents spend more time together.
D) women are spending more time doing household chores.
Q4) Since 1970,the earnings of men without a college education have
A) risen.
B) fallen.
C) increased more than women's.
D) stayed the same.
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Chapter 8: The Social Construction of Intimacy
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Q1) Sociologists suggest early sexual activity among poor youth is a substitute for other non-attainable forms of gratification.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to research,which of the following statements about teen sexuality is accurate?
A) Since 1991, sexual intercourse among teens has declined modestly.
B) The sexual activity of teens shows little variability by race.
C) Sexual abstinence is a growing trend among teens.
D) The percentage of teen boys who are sexually active is far higher than the percentage of teen girls who are sexually active.
Q3) Interracial relationships are likely to form in which settings?
A) metropolitan areas
B) the military
C) colleges and universities
D) all of the above
Q4) Human sexuality is strictly a biological drive.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Contemporary Marriages
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Q1) According to research on sexuality in marriage,
A) high quality marriages experience no lag in frequency of sexual contact over time.
B) couples often engage in a "discourse of difference."
C) sex in marriage occurs most often after children leave the home.
D) sexual behavior among spouses is always an expression of physical desire.
Q2) What are the sources of power in marriage? How do these generally give more marital power to husbands than wives?
Q3) Divorce is most common in which of the following racial groups?
A) White
B) Asian
C) Hispanic
D) African American
Q4) 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.
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Chapter 10: Parents and Children
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Q1) Recent theories of childhood draw which of the following conclusions about the parent-child relationship?
A) Children are "empty vessels" that parents shape according to contemporary norms of child rearing.
B) Parents are authority figures; therefore, children have little chance of shaping their parents.
C) Parents influence their children and children influence their parents.
D) Deterministic models of child rearing provide the best conceptualization of this process.
Q2) Latinas are the racial-ethnic group with the highest fertility rate.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Surrogate mothering refers to
A) a woman who adopts a child and raises that child as her own.
B) a guardian who cares for a child born to an unprepared teenager.
C) a process by which the husbands sperm is used to impregnate a woman other than one's partner.
D) Godparents taking the role of deceased parents.
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Chapter 11: Violence in Families
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Q1) Victims of incest often suffer serious effects well into adulthood.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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.
Q3) According to the text,family violence is a logical outcome of
A) the social glorification of violence.
B) the pairing of men and women.
C) human nature.
D) all of the above
Q4) The term "intimate partner violence" arose in response to
A) the rise in concern about emotional abuse.
B) the increasing attention to incest.
C) seeing violence as a criminal problem rather than a health problem.
D) the increasing attention to violence among cohabiters, dating couples, and same-sex couples.
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Chapter 12: Divorce and Remarriage
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Q1) The distribution of marital property in "no fault" divorce cases is biased because
A) the courts assume husbands and wives are equal at the time of the divorce.
B) wives are compensated for years of homemaking, while men are not compensated for their household labors, such as yard work and automobile maintenance.
C) the value of men's career assets compared to those of wives are generally overestimated.
D) all of the above
Q2) 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.
Q3) Allen Li argues the best way to look at the impact of divorce on children is to compare
A) children before and after divorce.
B) children soon after divorce and then much later after divorce.
C) children of divorced parents and children of non-divorced parents.
D) countries with different divorce rates.
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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) Commuter marriages are largely the result of women's increased entry into professional employment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following describes Weston's study of gays and lesbians in San Francisco?
A) Weston used random sampling techniques to select her sample.
B) This study focused on the family lives of gay and lesbian political activists.
C) Weston used friendship pyramiding and snowball sampling to achieve a sample that varied by race and class.
D) Weston's research used a combination of focus groups and a telephone survey.
Q4) Discuss the factors that explain the increase in heterosexual cohabitation.
Q5) What explains the rise in commuter marriages? How do wives evaluate this arrangement? How do husbands evaluate this arrangement?
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Chapter 14: Family Policy for the Twenty-First Century
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Q1) Poor women have higher rates of unplanned pregnancy than the non-poor.The text suggests that one explanatory factor is
A) welfare dependence.
B) lack of moral standards.
C) the high cost of contraception.
D) the availability of abortion.
Q2) The 1996 Welfare Act guarantees a job to everyone currently on welfare. A)True B)False
Q3) With regard to same-sex marriage,in 2013,
A) more than 50% of Americans supported same-sex marriage.
B) less than 50% of Americans favor civil unions.
C) the opposition to same-sex marriage increased.
D) all of the above
Q4) Discuss the contention that investing in children's programs now will actually save money in the long run.What kinds of programs are good investments? How does this save public money?
Q5) Compare and contrast conservative and progressive approaches to the problems of welfare and poverty.Which policies make the most sense to you? Why?
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