Midterm

Question 0

Preconceptions about the family. Learn to discriminate the true and false generations about the family.

Answer 0

There is only one mode of association between divorce and not having children

Question 1

What is the most important reason that the family still holds a central position in modern society?

Answer 1

Family socializes between family members and children

Question 2

Why is the family theoretical significant? Know the main reasons:

Answer 2

Religion and family development are the only things around the world in common

Question 3

Understand both expressive and instrumental functions of the society

Answer 3

Expressive-day to day interactions

Instrumental- providing food shelter clothing

Question 4

Understand the representations of advantages of the familistic package.

Answer 4

All families should have something to provide continue family name and think of family as a social unit

Question 5

Would the family serve an important social function in Plato’s Republic?

Answer 5

False

Question 6

Do most sophisticated studies of the family confirm what we already know as common sense?

Answer 6

False- it has to be studied tested and sampled

Question 7

Know the two kinds of functions of family in the society

Answer 7

Expressive and instrumental

Question 8

Do experiments in communal living attempt to create new types of family relationships?

Answer 8

Yes

Question 9

Do most people believe that many needs of the whole society are served by the family?

Answer 9

Yes

Question 10

The global revolution in family and personal life is characterized by what?

Answer 10

Worldwide concern of the future of the family

Question 11

Know about the conditions of families in China today

Answer 11

Arranged marriages
Increased divorce
Women are being recognized more

Question 12

The feature of sexuality in contemporary society

Answer 12

Largely disconnected from reproduction

Question 13

How does Anthony Giddens describe the 1950s family

Answer 13

Traditional or old fashioned

Question 14

The concept “pure relationship”

Answer 14

Relationship based on positive emotional communication

Question 15

According to the current marriage law is it easy or difficult for couples to obtain a divorce in China?

Answer 15

Easy

Question 16

Do women and children have much control over those own lives in traditional families?

Answer 16

False

Question 17

Is antagonism towards homosexuality still widespread while attitudes towards sexuality have changes?

Answer 17

Yes

Question 18

Has the high divorce rate in the U.S. Resulted in the decline of marriage.

Answer 18

No high divorce high marriage society

Question 19

Are personal relationships and emotional aria faction very important in modern family life?

Answer 19

Yes

Question 20

What were the bases of the ideal family in early 20th century

Answer 20

Law tradition religious belief and institutional marriage

Question 21

The family ideologies in Spain

Answer 21

Same sex has right to marry

Question 22

The different patterns of family formation and fertility between Finland and Spain.

Answer 22

Fertility rates for Finland have risen

Question 23

How was the family defined in preindustrial times?

Answer 23

Community of need

Question 24

Describe the traditional/ conservative idea of family in Spain and Finland

Answer 24

Conjugal male bread winner and female homemaker

Question 25

Did Finland and Spain shift from egalitarianism to a male breadwinner/female homemaker family model in the latter 20th century

Answer 25

No

Question 26

In which country national law grants homosexual couples the right to marry and adopt children?

Answer 26

Spain

Question 27

How the fertility rate changed in Finland during 1980s when family policy was intensely developed?

Answer 27

No decline

Question 28

Know about Alternative family forms in Finland and Spain

Answer 28

Alternative families are more common in Finland

Question 29

Compare the features of the Finnish and the Spanish labor market and the influences on women's career

Answer 29

Finnish market is more masculine and harder for women to advance

Question 30

How are modern mothers influenced by the ideology of intensive mothering?

Answer 30

Sacrificing and nurturing

Question 31

What is the image of supermom in contemporary society

Answer 31

Perfection

Question 32

What are the images of supermoms when pitted against traditional mothers in the mommy wars?

Answer 32

Traditional moms accuse working moms of neglecting children

Question 33

In author Sharon Hay's study how did stay at home moms imply working mothers?

Answer 33

Own interests before children's interests

Question 34

Has the ideology of intensive mothering been the dominant model of childrearing in the US?

Answer 34

Yes

Question 35

Are traditional mothers affected by other women's workforce participation

Answer 35

Yes

Question 36

Do working mothers have desire to stay at home with their children while traditional mothers are pulled by the pressure of the outside world?

Answer 36

Yes

Question 37

Where have the mommy wars realities from?

Answer 37

Attention between child rearing and changing gender roles

Question 38

Are stay at home moms and working mom ambivalent about their current positions?

Answer 38

Yes

Question 39

Where does the idea of a declining American family stem from

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Anxiety over divorce rate

Question 40

What does the conservative model of family breakdown focus on?

Answer 40

Family roles

Question 41

According to conservative critics of the family what is the solution to the breakdown in family values

Answer 41

Giving marriage and parenting higher priority

Question 42

The view that the current family crisis stems from structural more than cultural changes is characterized by which model?

Answer 42

Liberal

Question 43

What does the feminist model of family decline empathize

Answer 43

Decline of community and corporation

Question 44

Is to create tougher divorce laws a conservative solution to a breakdown in family structure?

Answer 44

Yes

Question 45

Does the feminist model of family breakdown focus on changes in the economy and less parental time at home?

Answer 45

No

Question 46

Have the recent changes in family forms had the greatest negative consequences for children?

Answer 46

Yes

Question 47

Which two models attribute the decline in family values to women's increased participation in the labor force

Answer 47

Conservative

Question 48

How do feminists think of the role of community in improving conditions for families

Answer 48

Cooperation between community family and work

Question 49

Know about the three periods that have dramatically changed women's place in society

Answer 49

Separate spheres 1840-1990

Question 50

The features of each period

Answer 50

Separate spheres, distinct roles for women

Question 51

What are influences of the passage of women's suffrage amendment

Answer 51

Passed 1890- 1940 did not lead to increase representation it did little to politics and government

Question 52

According to Robert max Jackson what is the most significant factor in the decline of gender inequality?

Answer 52

Change in economic and political structure

Question 53

What are the features of the area of separate spheres

Answer 53

Separate spheres for men and women

Question 54

Have the passage of women's suffrage amendment considerably changed women's status?

Answer 54

No

Question 55

Summarize the features of the improvement of women's status since the 19th century

Answer 55

No

Question 56

The "glass ceiling" and women's domestic duties are an example of which era?

Answer 56

Residual inequalities

Question 57

According to the author is male dominance inevitable despite the rise of women's status?

Answer 57

No

Question 58

During world war 2 women were asked to go to work to fill vacancies created by the men who left to go to war. What name were these women collectively referred to?

Answer 58

Rose of the water

Question 59

In the mid 1950s Americans made up only 6% of the worlds population yet produced what % of the worlds goods?

Answer 59

50%

Question 60

In what year did the birth control pill go on the market?

Answer 60

1960

Question 61

Over the 1980s and 1980s the weekly earnings of non-management workers fell by what percent?

Answer 61

19%

Question 62

Which amendment to the US Constitution granted women the right to vote?

Answer 62

19

Question 63

In Election Day in 1960 newspapers across the nation noted that for the first time in the nations history were there likely to be more women than men casting ballots for presidents?

Answer 63

Yes

Question 64

In the 1960s as the economy was constantly creating employment what percent of those new jobs went to women?

Answer 64

2/3rds// 66.7%

Question 65

After war thanks to an economic boom and generous federal spending on the 1950s how many percent of American families achieved middle class status?

Answer 65

85%

Question 66

As people moved from rural eras into the cities and developed higher expectations for the next generation did children move from being an economic plus?

Answer 66

No

Question 67

We're both control giving women and employers more confidence about woman's ability to plan for a career?

Answer 67

Yes

Question 68

What are young adults today who grew up with mothers who marched into workplace and parents who forged innovative alternatives to traditional marriage called?

Answer 68

Children of gender revolution

Question 69

According to the author children grew up in what kinds of families were the least ambivalent about their parents family structure arrangements

Answer 69

Child of dual erna homes

Question 70

Based on the author s research what percentage of women plan to build a non-negotiable base of self-reliance and an independent identity in the world of paid work?

Answer 70

75%

Question 71

What form of traditionalism for men supports a mothers right to work but protects mens claim that their work prospects should come first

Answer 71

Modified

Question 72

What do plan A and plan B mean?

Answer 72

Plan B- always keep when parents both work

Question 73

Do most men prefer a modified traditionalism that recognizes a mothers right to work but puts their own career first?

Answer 73

Yes

Question 74

Regardless of class race or ethnicity were women interviewed willing to surrender their autonomy for a traditional marriage?

Answer 74

No

Question 75

Was variation found among children who grew up in apparently similar family types?

Answer 75

Yes

Question 76

Did the young women and men interviewed by the author tend to be more focused on what form their families took than how well their parents met the challenges of providing economic and emotional support?

Answer 76

No

Question 77

How many percent of women plan to build a non-negationable base of self reliance and independent identity in the world of paid work?

Answer 77

75%

Question 78

How to define a theory

Answer 78

A tool used to understand and describe the world

Question 79

What are basic parts of theory

Answer 79

Assumptions Concepts Propositions

Question 80

Functions of family theory

Answer 80

``` Descriptive Sensitizing Integrative Explanatory Value ```

Question 81

When we think of the family as a social group in what ways do families differ from such groups as co workers and networks of close friends

Answer 81

Common residence economic cooperation and reproduction

Question 82

When studying the social exchange and rational choice framework the textbook outlines some basic assumptions

Answer 82

People are motivated by self-interests, individuals are constrained by their choices, humans are rational beings, social relationships are also characterized by interdependence and reciprocity

Question 83

Know the main concepts of social exchange theory

Answer 83

Rewards. Concepts. Profit. Comparison level. Comparison level for alternatives. Dependence commitment and persistence. Norm of reciprocity. Rule of distributive justice norm of fairness equity

Question 84

What is the symbolic interaction framework basically concerned with

Answer 84

Personal relationships between husband and wife/ parents and children

Question 85

Is the symbolic content of any culture constantly static and never changes

Answer 85

False

Question 86

The general focus of symbolic interactionism can be summed up as being the acquisition and generation of meaning. What does this mean?

Answer 86

The meaning of personal relationships

Question 87

In reference to the system framework what have you learned?

Answer 87

Much more Han a collection of individuals who live together and are related it had holistic quality

Question 88

What do we know about the scope of assumptions of system theory

Answer 88

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts

Question 89

Basic concepts of system framework

Answer 89

System. Boundaries. Hierarchy. Entropy. Family roles. Feedback. Equilibrium. Circular causality vs linear causality. identified patient. Double blind. Family cohesion. Family flexibility. Mutuality

Question 90

Family systems theory has been useful In Which areas of family studies?

Answer 90

Communication and family typologies. Family health and illness. Family dynamics and functioning. Clinical contexts

Question 91

Where did feminists thought originate?

Answer 91

Seneca Falls Convention in 1848

Question 92

What's the distinction between gender and sex

Answer 92

Gender is social meanings and behaviors ascribed to ones sex Sex is ones biological assignments as genetically defined at birth

Question 93

Urie Bronfenbrenner "biological prospective"

Answer 93

Physical basis for human behavior/you and your Environment Microsystems. Mesosystsm. Exosystem. Macrosystem. Chronosystem.