HDFS OSU 2200 Midterm 1

The author of The Way We Never Were: American Families And The Nostalgia Trap, notes that despite the many transformations since the first publication of her book, this one thing has not changed...

The tendency for Americans to view present-day family and gender relations through nostalgia

Which of the following is a unique circumstance for unmarried parents?

They want to date but don't have the time because of their children. Some haven't been married but have kids. They also tend to marry people that have children.

Imagine you are selected to take part in a study, and the researcher asks you to track and report the times of day in which you study, work, relax, interact with family, and interact with friends. What kind of study method would this be?

Time Use Study

Which of the following is NOT an example of a microaggression?

What's Up?

When did the word homosexual first begin to appear as a way to describe someone's identity?

19th century

What is the conflict that Justin Baldoni describes related to his life?

A conflict between who he feels he is and who the world tells him he should be as a man.

What is the summary of an article called?

abstract

Which of the following groups is the most isolated group in terms of dating?

blacks

According to Harvard economist Raj Chetty, which of the following is one of the strongest predictors of upward mobility?

growing up with married parents

According to Modern romance the average of age at marriage in the US:

has increased for both men and women

Which of the following racial/ethnic groups has the highest poverty rate?

American Indians

Based off what we learned in the video, what is a microaggression?

An indirect, subtle, or unintentional act of discrimination against a marginalized group

What is human development and family science?

An interdisciplinary area of study that focuses on families in context

What is the big reason, according the Family Structure Matters, that the gender gap in educational, behavioral, and social outcomes is growing?

Boys are often hit harder by having unmarried parents and by the absence of a father

Which of the following is NOT a way in which the federal government increased legal regulation of family life during the industrial era?

Creating rules for religious organizations' role in sanctifying marriage.

What is the difference between facts and theory in the study of the family?

In sociology, as in any other science, theory is a way to apply logic to a pattern of facts, to structure the way we think about our subject matter, and to help us generate ideas for research to enrich that understanding.

According to How to Lose Your Virginity, the virgin violinist played for what pop star?

Lady Gaga

The families in Two American Families lived in which city?

Milwaukee

What disciplines inform HDFS?

Psych, sociology, economics

In Meet the Patels, why wouldn't/don't Ravi's parents like Audrey?

She is culturally American

Which of the following examples best describes the term transgender?

Their gender identity at birth is not the same as when they are older → usually switch in adulthood

How do sociologists working from the biological perspective seek to understand human behavior?

They apply an understanding of the biological underpinnings of sex differences to common traits and practices today.

Which of the following statements about acculturation and assimilation is NOT true?

Assimilation most occurs before acculturation

A theorist might point to which social fact to support the consensus perspective?

Democracy and American Revolution

T/F We should assume that someone is being dramatic if they react to a microaggression made against them.

False

What is the purpose of google scholar?

It sorts articles that Google considers scholarly so that anyone interested may look at the current research.

For the families in Two American Families, what was the major issue that was the catalyst for the family issues?

Job loss

What types of websites should be utilized for research?

Journals

In which of the following examples, does the young person have the highest life chance?

Justin Smith is the son of a successful and wealthy businessman and is graduating from Harvard this year.

When faced with economic difficulty, what business did the Stanley sons begin in order to help the family?

Lawn/Landscape care

In Meet the Patels, according Ravi's parents, what should his wife's last name be?

Patel

The families in Two American Families DID NOT experience the following:

more income following the 2008 recession

What does the "R" in the CRAAP method stand for?

relevance

Which of the following is NOT an example of gender socialization?

Andrea explains to her friends that her parents will not allow her to stay out late after she failed a test.

The richest 1% of Americans earned what percent of all income in 2014?

20%

About what percentage of people report having met their current partner online?

22%

Which of the following is not a main form of scarcity that single-mother families often face contrast to two-parent families?

3 forms that do: Money, time, social capital

Which of the following is NOT a major lens through which social scientists study sexuality?

Ethics of sexual behavior

Which of the following describes the term matrilineal?

In this family arrangement wealth and power are transmitted from mothers to daughters

According to the textbook, which of the following is a reason why sexual behavior is less constrained now than it was in the past?

Reasons: Sex among older adults, young people living alone before marriage, the invention of birth control, sex outside of marriage, separation of sex from reproduction

Which of the following roles related to marriage was NOT a role played by the state-established churches in the early European Societies?

Deciding who could marry into which families

What is meant by the term "token resistance"?

Saying no to sex when you really mean yes.

Which of the following is the force that prompted Mexican migration to the U.S.?

Seeking employment

Which of the following factors DOES NOT contribute to the relatively high rate of HIV infection in the African American population?

What does not: Racial segregation What does: Greater biological susceptibility, access to education, and lower levels of healthcare.

Which of the following class structures includes the highest percentage of Americans?

Working Americans

The video gives an example of a microaggression that can lead to death. What was the example?

shooting an innocent person

Why does the percentage of Whites married to Blacks in the United States differ so significantly from the parentage of Blacks married to Whites in the United States?

White men were allowed to have black children during slavery but it was not socially acceptable for a black man to have children/ marry a white women. Laws preventing interracial marriages between whites and blacks. By 2015, some 8 percent of married African Americans were married to Whites. But because Whites are the larger group, that translated into less than 1 percent of married Whites

Before you being reading a scholarly journal article what should you do first?

have a clear research question and/or topic statement

For the Nuemann family, which of the following were NOT stressors that the family faced in addition to poverty?

meddling in-laws

According to Modern Romance an ideal first date would be

monster truck rally

Women's weekly earnings are what percentage of men's weekly earnings?

81%

Which of the following is an example of familism?

A teenager misses several days of school to look after a sick relative. A grandfather moves into his daughter's home to help take care of his grandchildren.

Who does Justin Baldoni ask to forgive him (and all the other men of the world) at the end of the video?

All women

Identify the statement that describes how the rising age at first marriage impacted sexual behavior.

Almost all Americans have sex before marriage.

According to Modern Romance, the soul mate marriage is different from the companionate marriage in the following ways:

Individuals in soul mate marriages want their partners to be their best friend, trusted confidant, and most passionate lover

The article discusses a correlation between a reoccurring theme in the Twilight series and the real world. Who are most responsible for female victimization?

Intimate partners

How are women presented in the Twilight Saga?

Passive and weak

Which of the following is the characteristic of family life for 19th century Mexican Americans?

Poor families, farmers as trains developed they traveled for work. Separated from their families. Strong families bonds(familism).

According to the CRAAP method, which of the following IS NOT one of the 5 tips to evaluate a website?

Popularity

According to How to Lost Your Virginity, purity balls may be negative because

fathers and husbands are put in charge of women's sexuality

In Meet the Patels, who does Ravi live with?

his sister

In the video, what are "microaggressions" compared to?

mosquitos

Which of the following types of families is most likely to be poor?

unmarried female headed families

Which of the following groups is LEAST likely to intermarry with those of other races or ethnicities?

white women

According to College Students and Sexual Consent: Unique Insights, female college students:

women are responsible for oral sex

Which of the following mate selection patterns creates the most inequality in a society?

Adults only marry within their own social class.

Which of the following options is not a way in which the Twilight Saga reinforces the marginalization of women and girls?

All of the vampires in the saga are male

Which of the following is NOT associated with stronger feelings of homophobia?

Being born after 1990 and being female

Because the word family means different things to different people, the textbook provides a broad definition of families as groups of people who are bound by which of the following types of connections?

Biological, legal, emotional

What is an example of a way in which an elementary school teacher might engage in gender socialization in schools?

By reprimanding a girl for playing on the jungle gym because she is wearing a dress

Identify the statement that describes why some researchers argue that love is an evolutionary adaptation.

Children loved by their parents were more likely to survive infancy

Which of the following is the most accurate example of a split-household family?

Chinese Americans, Mexican Americans

Which of the following is NOT one of the distinct themes identified in the study?

College students' promiscuity regardless of gender

In meet the patels what is bio data?

Detailed personal information to be given to a prospective match and their family.

Identify the term that describes the process of immigrant children adapting to a new culture more rapidly than their parents.

Dissonant acculturation

Which of the following occupations is the LEAST female dominated?

Electricians

According to How to Lose Your Virginity, which of the following were NOT used to check for virgins?

Fingernail test

Which of the following examples DOES NOT fit the definition of a legal family?

Fostered children, unmarried partners, housemates

The purpose of marriage for people today differs greatly from people in the past. According to the article, The Way We Never Were, what was the most common purpose of marriage in our history?

Gain advantageous in laws and expand the family labor force

Which of the following is an example of a third-generation immigrant?

Grandchildren of immigrants

According to the report posted in the Washington Post, discussed in Family Structure Matters, how are states with high levels of married parenthood NOT affected?

Lower levels of growth for the state

What was a relatively common form of polygamy in the nineteenth century?

Men having multiple wives

Which of the following IS NOT a factor that made building and maintaining families difficult for slaves in the period between 1619 and the end of the Civil War (in the mid-1800s)?

Most enslaved children did not live with their parents

Which of these topics is more unique to Human Development and Family Science than a Sociology course?

Parenting 3

The high school prom has been a site of continuous legal and social conflict for decades. Why are prom scripts so important?

Proms are often seen as a formal step in the process of mate selection that can lead eventually to marriage.

Which of the following is NOT a major change in dating and romantic relationships that has made following social scripts more difficult in recent years?

Sexual freedom has increased Couples are less committed to each other

Which of the following IS NOT an example of how the birth control pill may have had repercussions for society once it was widely available?

Rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) have decreased.

What is not a feature of a google scholar search?

The ability to limit the search to articles that are easy to read and more accessible

A cohort is a group of people who experience an event together at the same time. T/F

True

According to College Students and Sexual Consent: Unique Insights, male college students:

Use force or their strength to position a woman to give oral sex

What did Justin Baldoni challenge men to do?

Use the same qualities that they feel make them a man to go deeper into themselves

According to researchers, which of the following indicates that young people endorse the belief that men's sexual pleasure supersedes women's sexual pleasure?

When asked a vaguely worded question regarding consent to oral sex, most men and women interpreted the question as asking how men consent to receive oral sex and how women consent to perform oral sex

Which of the following statements is not a common microaggression?

Where are you from?

According to Modern Romance the "best of" mentality?

affects our search for romantic partners

The process by which social scientists establish an association between two phenomena is known as

correlation

Scholars are unsure why marriage matters for children, but they know it does. What is NOT something, mentioned in the Family Structure Matters article, that may be affected in children's lives when living in an unmarried household?

strained relationships with siblings

True or False: Edward and Jacob both treat women as if they are property.

true

In a story from the textbook, a woman recalled, "In 1969 I even started to wear trousers to work (as a social worker). At the time this was certainly frowned on, yet two years later social workers were roaming the inner city in torn jeans, gym shoes and bra-less T-shirts." What concept does this story exemplify?

Gender roles change over time and across place. Non-conforming

According to rape justification literature, what is a widely held assumption among men?

If a woman engages in some level of physical activity with a man, she is obligated to have intercourse and thus he can just tell her they are going to have sex

Which of the following is one of the ways that Justin Baldoni attempts to get past the fact that he isn't comfortable talking about his feelings?

He forces himself to be vulnerable to others