Chpt 15 Test

Question 0

According to Peter Berger and handgrips Keller, interaction between marital partners…

Answer 0

Contributes to a shared reality

Question 1

What % of families are supported solely by a male breadwinner?

Answer 1

15

Question 2

The terminology used to describe family problems, such as “spouse abuse” is examined by ______ theorists

Answer 2

Symbolic interactionist

Question 3

_______ does not contribute to the acceptance of the roles of batterer and battered

Answer 3

A belief in high achievement

Question 4

David Elkins described the postmodern family as ______

Answer 4

Permeable

Question 5

United states’s ideal culture emphasizes ______

Answer 5

Romantic love

Question 6

In regard to women’s and men’s perceptions about romantic live, Francesca Cancian points out that…

Answer 6

Men tend to express their love through actions, such as running an errand for someone

Question 7

The census bureau has begun to use a more inclusive definition of_____, referring to a couple who live together without being legally married

Answer 7

Cohabitation

Question 8

The people who are most likely to cohabit are:

Answer 8

Under the age of 45

Question 9

Regardless of the individual traits of marriage partners, read etch indicates that _______ is not a common marital problem

Answer 9

Increase of the extended family

Question 10

______% of all marriages in the US are dual-earner marriages

Answer 10

Over 50

Question 11

In 2005, ____% of employed mothers with children under age 6 worked full-time

Answer 11

60

Question 12

In regard to housework, Arlie hochschild notes that

Answer 12

Even when husbands share some of the household responsibilities, they typically spend much less time in these activities than do their wives

Question 13

Couples with more ____ ideas about woman’s and men’s roles tend to share more equally in food preparation, housework, and child care

Answer 13

Egalitarian

Question 14

Among Latina woman, the highest fertility rate is found among ____ women

Answer 14

Mexican American

Question 15

Today, infertility affects nearly ____ US couples, or 1 in 12 couples in which the wife is between ages 15 and 44.

Answer 15

5 million

Question 16

According to the text’s discussion of adoption,

Answer 16

A new birth certificate is issued in most adoptions

Question 17

Which of the following nations had the highest rate of teen pregnancy

Answer 17

United States

Question 18

According to Brian Robinson _____ is not a myth regarding teenage fathers

Answer 18

They sometimes try to be good fathers

Question 19

About ____% of all African American children spend part of the childhood living in a household headed by a single mother

Answer 19

86

Question 20

Children from mother only families are more likely than children in two parent families to have experienced all the following except

Answer 20

To delay marriage and postpone having children

Question 21

Some single fathers who do not have custody of their children become “______”

Answer 21

Disneyland daddies

Question 22

Currently men head about 17% white one parent families and 7% black one parent families. Text observed that among many of these men a pattern of ______ has emerged

Answer 22

Involved fatherhood

Question 23

According to alice Rossi _____ is the mark of adulthood for women

Answer 23

Maternity

Question 24

In regards to family violence, all of the following are true except

Answer 24

Native American women were more likely than other women to report family violence

Question 25

_____ refers to institutional setting or residences where adults other than a child's own parents or bio relatives serve as caregivers

Answer 25

Foster care

Question 26

In relation to divorce statistics recent studies have shown all of the following to be true except

Answer 26

The likelihood of divorce decreases with each subsequent marriage in serial monogamy

Question 27

At the microbe bel, all of the following are primary social characteristics of those most likely to get divorced except

Answer 27

Changes in social institutions such as religion and family

Question 28

By age sixteen about ____ white children and ___ African American children experience divorce in their families

Answer 28

* one out of every three | * two out of every three

Question 29

Based on the discussion of remarriage; all of the following are true except

Answer 29

At all ages, a greater proportion of women than men remarry

Question 30

Some people become part of ___ families, which consist of spouses, children from previous marriages and children from new marriage

Answer 30

Blended

Question 31

Almost ___ million single adults reside in the US

Answer 31

80

Question 32

Individuals who prefer to remain single typically hold all the following characteristics except

Answer 32

They are still very interested in having children

Question 33

Approximately ____% young adults between ages 25-34 reside with their parents

Answer 33

13

Question 34

Among people 18 and over, approximately _____% African Americans have never married

Answer 34

41

Question 35

All of the following are factors that account for lower marriage rate among African American women except

Answer 35

African American women lack the motivation to marry

Question 36

In Latino extended families la familia, the ____ participate in the major religious cerininies in children's lives

Answer 36

Compadres

Question 37

In a ___ family, other relatives live in close proximity but not in the same household

Answer 37

Semi extended

Question 38

Today, extended family patterns are common among lower-income native Americans who

Answer 38

Live on reservations

Question 39

Since 1970s there has been a ____ increase in marriages between people of different races

Answer 39

300%

Question 40

Interracial marriage ... Was illegal in sixteen states until he US Supreme Court overturned _____ in 1967

Answer 40

Miscegenation laws

Question 41

Relationship in which people live together with commitment, form an economic unit and care for young

Answer 41

Families

Question 42

A social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption

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Kinship

Question 43

Family into which a person is born in which early socialization usually takes place

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Family of orientation

Question 44

Family that a person forms by having or adopting children

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Family of procreation

Question 45

Family unit composed of relatives in addition to parents and children

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Extended family

Question 46

Family composed of parents and their dependent children all of whole live apart from other relatives

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Nuclear family

Question 47

Legally recognizes/ socially approved arrangement between two or more individuals that carries certain rights and obligations

Answer 47

Marriage

Question 48

Marriage between two partners, usually woman and man

Answer 48

Monogomy

Question 49

Concurrent marriage of a person of one sex with two or more member of the opposite sex

Answer 49

Polygamy

Question 50

Concurrent marriage of one man with two or more woman

Answer 50

Polygyny

Question 51

Concurrent marriage of one woman with two or more men

Answer 51

Polyandry

Question 52

System of tracing descent through fathers side of family

Answer 52

Patrilineal descent

Question 53

System of tracing descent through mothers side of family

Answer 53

Matrilineal descent

Question 54

System of tracing descent through both mother and fathers side of family

Answer 54

Bilateral descent

Question 55

Family structure in which authority is held by the eldest male

Answer 55

Patriarchal family

Question 56

Family structure in which authority is held by eldest female

Answer 56

Matriarchal family

Question 57

Family structure in which both parents share power and authority

Answer 57

Egalitarian family

Question 58

Custom of a married couple living in the same household as husbands family

Answer 58

Partrilocal residence

Question 59

Custom of a married couple living in the same household as the wife's parents

Answer 59

Matrilocal residence

Question 60

Custom of a married couple living in the same household in their own residence apart from both parents

Answer 60

Neolocal residence

Question 61

Cultural norms prescribing that people marry within their social group or category

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Endogamy

Question 62

Pattern of individuals marrying those who are similar

Answer 62

Homogamy

Question 63

Practice or marrying outside of ones own social group

Answer 63

Exogamy

Question 64

Sub-discipline of sociology that attempts to describe and explain patterns of family life

Answer 64

Sociology of family

Question 65

Situation where two people live together in a committed sexually intimate relationship and is granted the same rights as those who are in Hetero relationships

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Domestic partnership

Question 66

Situation where two people live together and think as a couple without being married

Answer 66

Cohabitation

Question 67

Marriages where both spouses work

Answer 67

Dual earner marriages

Question 68

Hoch's term for domestic work that employed women perform at home after they complete work on the job

Answer 68

Seccond shift

Question 69

Four functions of family

Answer 69

* sexual regulation * socialization * economic and psychological support * provision of social status and reputation