M&F Exam

Question 1

What is selection effect?

Answer 1

the principle that whenever individuals sort themselves into groups, some of the differences among the group reflect preexisting differences among the individuals

Question 2

According to the material tracking the history of family, the breadwinner-homemaker family of the 1950s….

Answer 2

was a short-lived period of family which doesn’t reflect how families looked for much of US history

Question 3

What is Cherlin’s overreaching view about marriage in America today?

Answer 3

it is less practically important but more symbolically important

Question 4

Which of the following has the greatest impact on marriage survival rates?

Answer 4

educational attainment

Question 5

What happens to the efficiency of martial searches as people age ?

Answer 5

tends to decrease because of less access to institutions that aid in matching

Question 6

How have marraiges in the US changed?

Answer 6

Institutional to companionate to individualized

Question 7

What is some disadvantages of marriage that was presented in class?

Answer 7

• more housework for women
• weight gain
  -diminished social connections

Question 8

What is the specialization model

Answer 8

Model of the marriage market that suggest that men trade earning potential for women’s housework and childbearing

Question 9

Describe polygamy in the US

Answer 9

Is illegal; but people still do practice it in the US

Question 10

What era of divorce is the US currently in?

Answer 10

Era of Unrestricted divorce

Question 11

How would you describe the marriage rate today?

Answer 11

decreasing

Question 12

What is an important consideration in deciding if a divorce is better than staying together ?

Answer 12

the marital quality

Question 13

Which is more likely to end in divorce, remarriages or first marraiges?

Answer 13

remarriages

Question 14

Which of the following types of households have seen the greatest decline in the US?

Answer 14

two parent households

Question 15

Fertility in the US has…

Answer 15

decreased

Question 16

What is a responsive workplace?

Answer 16

a workplace in which job conditions are designed to allow employees to meet their family responsibilities more easily

Question 17

What is the transitional marriage ideology?

Answer 17

leads to women working but also taking on the majority of the work at home as the women continues to identify more with work at home and the man identify more with work outside the home

Question 18

List a function of a public family

Answer 18

produce the next generation of workers for society

Question 19

According to Arnett, which below is a societal shift that lead to emerging adulthood as a new life course category?

Answer 19

the emergence of a youth culture and the feminist movement

Question 20

Emerging adulthood is generally…

Answer 20

a demographically rich time

Question 21

What are Arnetts five characteristics of emerging adulthood?

Answer 21

• age of instability
• age of feeling in-between
• age of possibilities
• age of identity explorations
• most self-focused time of life

Question 22

What is difference about dating today compared to the 1950s?

Answer 22

it is likely to come later and represent a committed relationship, rather than be the start of relationship formation

Question 23

what happen as a result of the move from courtship to dating in relationship formation?

Answer 23

dating moved relationship away from the females home and thus decreased the power of females

Question 24

What is “double-bind” for college women looking to form relationships today?

Answer 24

women are stigmatized for and report lower satisfaction with hookups but relationships are costly

Question 25

Who created the categories of “heterosexual” and “homosexual” ?

Answer 25

the medical community

Question 26

What is the social constructionist perspective?

Answer 26

this perspective notes the fluidity of sexuality and notes that sexual identities are entirely created by society

Question 27

What theory advocates for getting rid of all label related to sexual identities?

Answer 27

queer theory

Question 28

What are some reasons why poor single mothers have children?

Answer 28

• children are a badge of honor - of partners
• economic stability comes too late in the life to wait
• lack of contraceptives
• purpose in life

Question 29

What is the free-rider problem?

Answer 29

someone who never gets married or has children but collects social security benefits (children is the future generation who will pay for social security)

Question 30

What does private family emphasizes?

Answer 30

• intimacy
• emotional support
• love

Question 31

What are exclusionists?

Answer 31

book

Question 32

When did divorce rates reach an all-time high?

Answer 32

1970s - 1980s

Question 33

What are the two primary modes of research in family studies

Answer 33

observation and surveys

Question 34

What is family inequality

Answer 34

the extent to which some families obtain more income and wealth than do others

Question 35

What is true about the poverty line?

Answer 35

• holding a full-time, minimum wage job doesnt always put you above the poverty line
• the calculation for the poverty line was developed in the 1960s
• the poverty line does not take into account the cost of living, except for Alaska and Hawaii