HDFS Exam 1

Question 1

genealogy

Answer 1

the study of ancestry and family history

Question 2

families

Answer 2

groups of related people, bound by connections that are biological, legal, or emotional

Question 3

Personal Family

Answer 3

The people to whom we feel related and who we expect to define us as members of their family as well

Question 4

Legal Family

Answer 4

A group of individuals related by birth, marriage, or adoption.

Question 5

institutional arena

Answer 5

A social space in which relations between people in common positions are governed by accepted rules of interaction.

Question 6

family arena

Answer 6

The institutional arena where people practice intimacy, childbearing and socialization, and caring work.

Question 7

consensus

Answer 7

A periodic count of people in a population and their characteristics, usually performed as an official government function.

Question 8

household

Answer 8

A group of people that lives and eats separately from other groups.

Question 9

state

Answer 9

The institutional arena where, through political means, behavior is legally regulated, violence is controlled, and resources are redistributed.

Question 10

market

Answer 10

The institutional arena where labor for pay, economic exchange, and wealth accumulation take place.

Question 11

Consensus Perspective

Answer 11

A perspective that projects an image of society as the collective expression of shared norms and values.

Question 12

breadwinner-homemaker family

Answer 12

An employed father, a nonemployed mother, and their children.

Question 13

conflict perspective

Answer 13

The view that opposition and conflict define a given society and are necessary for social evolution.

Question 14

feminist theory

Answer 14

A theory that seeks to understand and ultimately reduce inequality between men and women.

Question 15

socialization

Answer 15

The process by which individuals internalize elements of the social structure in their own personalities.

Question 16

exchange theory

Answer 16

The theory that individuals or groups with different resources, strengths, and weaknesses enter into mutual relationships to maximize their own gains.

Question 17

symbolic interactionism

Answer 17

A theory concerned with the ability of humans to see themselves through the eyes of others and to enact social roles based on others’ expectations.

Question 18

modernity theory

Answer 18

A theory of the historical emergence of the individual as an actor in society and how individuality changed personal and institutional relations.

Question 19

family wage

Answer 19

The amount necessary for a male earner to provide subsistence for his wife and children without their having to work for pay

Question 20

demographic perspective

Answer 20

The study of how family behavior and household structures contribute to larger population processes.

Question 21

life course perspective

Answer 21

The study of the family trajectories of individuals and groups as they progress through their lives, in social and historical context.

Question 22

cohort

Answer 22

A group of people who experience an event together at the same point in time.

Question 23

Bias

Answer 23

The tendency to impose previously held views on the collection and interpretation of facts.

Question 24

Sample Survey

Answer 24

A research method in which identical questions are asked of many different people and their answers gathered into one large data file.

Question 25

Longitudinal surveys

Answer 25

A research method in which the same people are interviewed repeatedly over a period of time.

Question 26

Time use studies

Answer 26

Surveys that collect data on how people spend their time during a sample period, such as a single day or week.

Question 27

Big Data

Answer 27

Data collections large enough to require special computing resources, and complex enough to require customized computer applications.