Sociology of the Family Exam Solutions
Course Introduction
Sociology of the Family examines the family as a fundamental social institution, exploring its structures, functions, and diverse forms across cultures and through history. The course investigates how families are shaped by and respond to social, economic, and political forces, including issues such as gender roles, parenting, marriage, divorce, aging, and kinship. Students analyze contemporary trends, social policies, and the impact of race, class, sexuality, and culture on family life, gaining a deeper understanding of the evolving dynamics and challenges faced by families in modern society.
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Marriages Families and Relationships Making Choices in a Diverse Society 11th Edition by Mary Ann
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Chapter 1: Marriage, Relationships, and Family
Commitments: Making Choices in a Changing Society
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Q1) A person who believed in the "family decline" theory might say the following:
A) "There has been a serious breakdown in marriage and family values."
B) "Family life isn't getting worse, it just adjusts to the times."
C) "Families today are better off than in the past."
D) "There is no marriage crisis."
Answer: A
Q2) The definition of family adopted by the authors of this text includes those who do all of the following EXCEPT
A) form an economic unit and care for any young.
B) consider their identity to be significantly attached to the group.
C) have the same name and background.
D) commit to maintaining that group over time.
Answer: C
Q3) A(n) __________ is any sexually expressive, parent-child, or other kin relationships in which people-usually related by ancestry, marriage, or adoption-form an economic unit and care for any young, consider their identity to be significantly attached to the group, and are committed to maintaining that group over time.
Answer: (family)
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Chapter 2: Exploring Relationships and Families
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Q1) Although we "know" about the family because we have lived in one, our __________may not tell the whole story.
Answer: (personal experience)
Q2) The traditional family sequence of marriage, parenthood, grandparenthood, and widowhood is discussed in which of the following perspectives?
A) feminist
B) family life course development
C) family systems
D) interaction-constructionist
Answer: B
Q3) Women's domestic work was largely invisible in social science until __________ began to treat household labor as work that has economic value.
A) attachment theorists
B) family ecology scholars
C) family development specialists
D) the feminist perspective
Answer: D
Q4) Treatment and control groups are part of the __________ research method. Answer: (experimental)
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Chapter 3: American Families in Social Context
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Q1) Which racial/ethnic group in the U.S. has the highest proportion of children living in poverty?
A) black
B) non-Hispanic white
C) Asian
D) Pacific Islander
Answer: A
Q2) American Indians tend to marry other American Indians most of the time.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) In Miller's typology of Native American families, __________ families develop a successful blend of native beliefs and the adaptations necessary to live in urban settings.
A) traditional
B) bicultural
C) transitional
D) marginal
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Our Gendered Identities
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Q1) WOn the societal level, __________ is the assignment to men of greater control and influence over society's institutions.
A) androgyny
B) male dominance
C) agentism
D) egalitarianism
Q2) WSome bureaucratic forms now include a check box for "____________" as well as those for "male" and "female," suggesting the beginning of societal accommodation to a more complex sex/gender system.
A) intersexual
B) transgender
C) homosexual
D) transvestite
Q3) Studying 'play' as part of the socialization process of children is a particularly important concept in which theoretical perspective?
A) structural functionalist
B) social conflict
C) family systems
D) interactionist
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Chapter 5: Our Sexual Selves
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Q1) Which theoretical perspective views the concepts "bisexual," "heterosexual," and "homosexual" as social inventions?
A) attachment
B) social conflict
C) interactionist
D) systems
Q2) __________ is the taken-for-granted system of beliefs, values, and customs that places superior value on heterosexual (as opposed to homosexual) behavior and that denies or stigmatizes nonheterosexual relations.
Q3) Children are maturing about __________ than they were one hundred years ago.
A) a year earlier
B) two years earlier
C) a year later
D) two years later
Q4) Life expectancy (average number of years remaining to those treated at age 20 and 35) for those with HIV/AIDS is now between 30-40 years with anitretroviral therapy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Love and Choosing a Life Partner
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Q1) Children of divorce, as a category, are less likely to have developed a(n) __________ attachment style.
A) insecure/anxious
B) avoidant
C) ambivalent
D) secure
Q2) Of the components of consummate love, which is the most gradual to develop?
A) intimacy
B) commitment
C) passion
D) devotion
Q3) In much of the world, particularly in parts of Asia and Africa that are less Westernized, parents have traditionally __________ their children's marriages.
A) arranged
B) interfered in
C) paid for
D) organized
Q4) Americans tend to choose partners who are like themselves in many ways. This situation is called __________.
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Chapter 7: Marriage: From Social Institution to Private Relationship
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Q1) The proportion of children under age eighteen living with two married parents __________ over the past 30 years.
A) rose dramatically
B) rose steadily
C) declined steadily
D) remained the same
Q2) Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, __________ percent of marriages lasted until the children left home.
A) 80
B) 70
C) 60
D) 50
Q3) By 2009, the median age at first marriage for both men and women was __________ for both men and women.
A) over 18
B) over 20
C) over 25
D) over 30
Q4) The family of __________ refers to the family a person grows up in.
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Chapter 8: Living Alone, Cohabiting, Same-Sex Unions, and
Other Intimate Relationships
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Q1) Compared with married women, cohabiting women are __________.
A) much younger than their partners
B) several years older than and earn more than their partners
C) more likely to be financially dependent on their partners
D) less likely to be sexually abused
Q2) Which category (all ages) is least likely to live alone?
A) Asians and Hispanics
B) non-Hispanic whites
C) blacks
D) divorced parents
Q3) In 2004, which state allowed gay and lesbian couples to marry legally (although this situation could change due to pending legal challenges to the law)?
A) California
B) New York
C) Massachusetts
D) New Jersey
Q4) The __________ is the ratio of men to women in a given society or subgroup of a society.
Q5) What is a domestic partnership? Give at least one example.
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Chapter 9: To Parent or Not to Parent
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Q1) Explain the relationship between involuntary infertility and reproductive technology. What are the social implications of ART?
Q2) What are the politics of abortion? Explain the existing social attitudes toward abortion.
Q3) Almost __________ percent of all legal abortions take place during the first trimester (first 12 weeks) of pregnancy.
A) 60
B) 70
C) 80
D) 90
Q4) The terms fecundity and fertility describe the physical ability to have children.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which racial/ethnic group has the highest proportion of nonmarital births?
A) Hispanic
B) non-Hispanic white
C) African American
D) Native American/Alaska native
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Chapter 10: Raising Children in a Diverse Society
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Q1) In explaining Asian American children's superior high school performance, a few Asian American social scientists have offered alternative concepts that emphasize indigenous __________, which blends parental love, concern, involvement, and physical closeness with strict and firm control.
A) Confucian training doctrine
B) authoritarian parenting
C) laissez-faire parenting
D) Yin/Yang doctrine
Q2) WAbout _____ percent of grandparents in the United States are raising grandchildren.
A) five
B) nine
C) eleven
D) fifteen
Q3) Which of these does your text NOT list as a factor influencing how new parents view their babies?
A) the parents' attitudes and overall mood
B) the temperament of the baby
C) whether the pregnancy was planned or unplanned
D) self-esteem of the parents
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Chapter 11: Work and Family
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Q1) Only since the Industrial Revolution has working been considered separate from family living.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The pronounced tendency for men and women to be employed in different types of jobs is termed __________.
Q3) The Census Bureau only considers those whose wives work full time as __________, also called househusbands.
A) stay-at-home-dads
B) unemployed
C) egalitarian
D) slackers
Q4) The term __________ refers to care provided in a caregiver's home, often by an older woman or a mother who has chosen to remain out of the labor force to care for her own children.
Q5) Some husbands today are rejecting the idea that dedication to one's job or occupational achievement is the ultimate indicator of success.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Communication in Relationships, Marriages, and Families
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Q1) Counselors encourage making time for play and new activities in a relationship, partly because new experiences release a pleasurable neurochemical called
A) dopamine.
B) testosterone.
C) estrogen.
D) adrenaline.
Q2) In __________, one partner attempts to spoil or undermine some activity the other has planned.
Q3) Randy and Julie are a happily married couple. When they have a problem, they ask each other if their own perception of the situation is accurate, and if they understand the other's feelings. This behavior is referred to by communication researchers as
A) bonding fights.
B) checking-it-out.
C) listener backchannels.
D) de-escalation.
Q4) List and define the relationship types classified by Huston and Melz and explain why some of these are "mixed blessing" relationships.
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Chapter 13: Power and Violence in Families
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Q1) The text reports that police officers typically avoided making arrests that would be automatic if the man and woman involved were not married.
A)True
B)False
Q2) __________ power is based on the persuasive content of what the dominant person tells another individual.
Q3) When women kill a partner, it is usually
A) malicious and intentional.
B) a matter of manslaughter.
C) out of desperation to exit a violent relationship.
D) out of rage against the partner.
Q4) WFamily researcher Steven Nock views the future as one of __________ couples.
A) mutually economically dependent
B) dual-career
C) childless
D) unmarried
Q5) Most marriage counselors are opposed to "no-power" relationships.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Family Stress, Crisis, and Resilience
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Q1) When a family member becomes addicted to alcohol, the entire family system is affected. Which theoretical perspective views a family as such?
A) family ecology
B) family development
C) interactionist
D) family systems
Q2) This chapter opens with the statement, "Americans say they're ________."
A) happy
B) relaxed
C) stressed
D) unhappy
Q3) __________ has been diagnosed in 3 to 7 percent of U.S. school children, more often in boys than in girls.
A) Anxiety disorder
B) Asberger's
C) ADHD
D) Depression
Q4) What is stressor pileup? Give several examples.
Q5) Reuben Hill formulated the __________ model of family crisis.
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Chapter 15: Divorce: Before and After
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Q1) In Louisiana, Arizona, and Arkansas, __________ marriage can be selected at the time of marriage or later as an alternative to standard marriage.
Q2) There are more than __________ noncustodial mothers, concentrated in the twenty-five to forty-five age range and lower- to middle-class economic level. A) two million B) one million
C) 500,000
D) 100,000
Q3) The text poses the question, "Is making divorce harder to get a realistic idea?" Summarize the text's position in reference to this question.
Q4) WA consequence of remarriage, which have higher divorce rates than first marriages, is an emerging trend of A) redivorce. B) legal separation. C) serial monogamy. D) overall divorce decline.
Q5) What is joint physical custody and how well or poorly does it work out, according to research?
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Chapter 16: Remarriages and Stepfamilies
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Q1) Because of the cultural ambiguity of remarried family relationships, social scientist Andrew Cherlin calls the remarried family a(n)
A) nuclear-family monopoly.
B) incomplete institution.
C) absent cultural script.
D) normless norm.
Q2) White and Booth found that marital quality does not vary greatly between first marriages and single or double remarriages; it is __________ that is generally affected.
A) satisfaction with family life
B) the anger level in the relationship
C) the stress level in the relationship
D) occupational stability
Q3) In a(n) __________, the child views the biological parent and the stepparent as maintaining a couple relationship that ignores the child's concerns.
Q4) Present an argument to explain the contradiction that marriages and remarriages have similar levels of marital quality (happiness), but remarriages have lower stability rates than first marriages.
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Chapter 17: Aging Families
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Q1) __________ involves acts of omission or failure to give adequate care to an aging person.
A) Grey-haired absenteeism
B) Forgetfulness
C) Elder neglect
D) Domestic abuse
Q2) Some of the negative effects of providing eldercare are listed in the text. Which of the following is NOT one of these?
A) career decline
B) social isolation
C) depression
D) strain on one's health
Q3) The age category called the "old-old" refers to people who are 85 and over.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Summarize the text's discussion of adult children as eldercare providers. Will there be any changes in this role in the future? If so, what might these changes be?
Q5) Describe the baby boom phenomenon and explain its significance in terms of America's population.
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Chapter 18: Topic 1: Gender Roles
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Q1) Why did David's doctors feel it was the best decision to make?
A) it was the cheapest alternative
B) the prevailing theory was that babies were born a blank slate and taught their sex
C) it was the safest alternative
D) none of these choices
Q2) What event led to David Reimer being raised as a girl?
A) a birth defect
B) homosexuality
C) a parental choice
D) a surgical mistake
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Chapter 18: Topic 2: Love and Intimacy
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Q1) Will holing hands research likely change the men's behavior?
A) yes
B) no
Q2) How has the effect of holding hands been proven?
A) through dating experiments
B) through MRI experiments
C) through questionnaires
D) through field research
Q3) Holding your spouses hand can have what benefits?
A) such affection rewires the brain
B) it helps one to better handle anxiety
C) it boosts the immune system
D) all of these choices
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