Quizzes Flashcards
What is a social institution?
Organize patterns of beliefs and behaviors centered around basic social needs
What is an institutional arena?
A social space in which relationships between people and common positions are governed by acceptable rules of interaction
What does it mean to think about the family as an institutional arena?
Family arena - Institutional arena where people practice intimacy, childbearing, socialization, and care work.
* Today about \_\_\_\_% of the public approves of marriages between whites and blacks. * A. 40-50 B. 50-60 C. 60-70 D. 70-80
C. 60-70
Rates of intermarriage between whites and blacks were higher in the 1850s than in the 1950s.
A. True
B. False
A. True
Today, around 7% of marriages are between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another.
A. True
B. False
B. False
Today, black men are twice as likely to marry interracially than black women.
A. True
B. False
A. True
______________ is the process by which members of minority groups change their own ways to conform to those of the dominant culture.
Assimilation
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ refers to a person's biological maleness or femaleness. A. Gender B. Sex type C. Sex D. Sexuality
C. Sex
The social realization of biological sex refers to which of the following? A. Sex B. Gender identity C. Sexual identity D. Gender
C. Sexual identity
Children play an active role in their gender socialization.
A. True
B. False
A. True
Which education category is most opposed to a man taking his wife’s name?
A. High school or less
B. Some college
C. College or more
A. High school or less
There are racial differences in views regarding name change.
A. True
B. False
A. True
Name and discuss three separate ways in which gender influences life within the family arena.
Economy
education
socialization.. etc.
Forming a long-term relationship with someone inside a certain social group is called \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. A. Exogamy B. Equity C. Endogamy D. Homophily
C. Endogamy
Over the life course, most Americans get married.
A. True
B. False
A. True
* Approximately \_\_\_\_\_\_\_% of U.S. adults marry someone of the same religion. * A. 50-60 B. 60-70 C. 70-80 D. 80-90
D. 80-90
According to the CCF brief “Does Premarital Cohabitation Raise Risk of Divorce?”, premarital cohabitation does raise the risk of divorce.
A. True
B. False
B. False
Its age, to early raises the risk
Married individuals tend to be better off than single or divorced people in which of the following areas? A. physical health B. emotional health C. economic well-being D. all of the above
D. all of the above
Give a brief explanation of the divorce rate pattern since the 1950s.
spike then decreasing
Give a brief explanation of some of the effects of divorce on children.
some behavioral issues, but Long term no different
Describe the (social) factors that cause some women to have more children than others.
health care, Eco, gender equality
Define the term “total fertility rate”.
number of children born to the average woman in her lifetime
What is the “double-bind” that women face?
Guilt Gap
1. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides \_\_\_\_\_\_ paid weeks off for all full-time and part-time workers. A. 0 B. 4 C. 12 D. 14
A. 0
Yardwork, shopping, paying bills; these are all examples of which type of domestic work? A. care work B. housework C. market work D. consumption work
D. consumption work
Today, women do about \_\_\_\_\_ times more housework than men. A. 2 B. 2.5 C. 4 D. 5
B. 2.5
Give a brief description of the ideology of “separate spheres”.
Public sphere is where the market work occurs outside the home, more prestige and social value.
Private sphere is where the care work and the unpaid labor happens
A man’s social class has a strong and clear effect on the amount of housework they perform.
A. True
B. False
B. False
List and briefly discuss three ways that religion as a social institution influences the family arena.
Education, structure, socialization etc
