Sociology Ch. 18 (Final Exam 5)
Today in the U.S. about ______________ of marriages end in separation or divorce within five years.
20%
In the U.S. about what share of children are born to a married couple?
59 %
What did Friedrich Engels claim about families and social inequality?
he said that family life reproduces the class structure in each new generation
Industrialization has what effect on pattern of marriage?
industrialization pushes up the age at first marriage
Two American Indian women from the same tribe who meet in a new city and assist one another are likely to consider that they share a bond of ______________.
kindship
As women joined the labor forse, U.S. family patterns changed in many ways. Which of the following is correct?
patriarchy has weakened as our society moves toward greater gender equality
How does the U.S. Census Bureau define family for the purposes of data collection?
people living together, linked by birth, marriage, or adoption
When looking at a family, the social conflict approach would see primarily how the family ___________.
perpetuates social inequality by handing down wealth from one generation to the next
Societies that permit men to marry more than one woman at one time have marital system correctly called which of the following?
polygyny
Patters of preindustrial descent have been either patrilineal or matrilineal based on whether men or women, in a given culture,
provide a family with most resources
According to researchers, middle income parents in the U.S. spend about how much to raise a child, including college tuition?
$300,000
Of all social institutions, which is changing the fastest?
Family
In the U.S., _____________ became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in 2004.
Massachusetts
If Tom and Suzy represent the most common combination in an interracial married couple in the U.S., it would mean that ___________.
he is white and she is Asian
Which of the following statements about the risk of divorce is correct?
Women with a college degree who marry have a far lower risk of divorce compared to women with less than a high school diploma
Malcom's parents are divorced, and his mother has custody of him and his sister. His dad who was ordered by a court to pay child support, has not made the payments for the pasy 6 monts. This father is an example of what is commonly called _______________.
a "deadbeat dad"
The concept bilateral descent refers to which of the following?
a system of tracing kinship through both women and men
Which of the following statments about arranged marriage is correct?
an arranged marriage is an agreement between the parents of the bride and groom that commonly takes place in traditional societies
A consanguine relationshiip is based on ________________, and a conjugal relationship is based on _____________.
blookd relations; marriage
"Blended families" are compased of which of the following?
children with some combination of biological parents and stepparents
Leah and Alvin are a couple who share a household but are not married. Their living arrangement is known as ____________.
cohabitation
Why according to a number of studies, is it more likely that a man is more eager than a women to find a new partner after divorce?
compared to single men, marriend men generally live longer, are mentally better off and report being happier overall than single men
In modern, high in-come societies, the first stage in the formatin of a new family typically is the process of ____________.
courtship
IN preindustrial societies, children are ____________; in modern societies, children are ______________.
economic assets, economic liabilities
The feminist approach to analyzing the family makes which of the follwing claims?
families perpetuate social inequalities, especially involving gender
Children born into affluent families are more likely than children of working-class families to _____________.
go on to greater achievement as adults
Marriages todday are actually about as "durable" as marriages a century ago. What is different today is that _____________.
more couples now choose to end the marriage instead of marriage ending due to death of one of the spouces
Social exchange anaylsis views intimate emotional relationships in terms of
negotiations and agreements between partners
Which of the following statements about one- parents families in the U.S. is correct?
one parent families are at a high risk of poverty
The oldest of the baby boomers are called the ___________________ because they will typically spend as many years caring for their aging parents as they did caring for their children.
sandwich generation
Why does single parenthood increase a young woman's risk of poverty?
single parenthood limits a peron's ability to work and to gain additional education
How does the text define the concept of "family"?
the family is a social institution found in all societies that unites people in a copperative and caring group
What factor motivates many families today to have fewer children than couples did a century ago?
the high cost of raising children
Which of the following statments about singlehood in the U.S. is correct?
the share of households containing a single person has almost tripled since 1950
Historically, the average number of children in families has depended the most on
the society's level of economic development
Child abuse and neglect are most common among children who are ______________.
the youngest and most socilly vulnerable
The recent recession has brought what changed to households in the U.S.?
there are many more extended family households as more people live with relatives to save money
What do sociologists gain by using a micro-level rather than a macro-levvel system of analysis to study families?
they gain an understanding of how individuals actually experience family life
Among adults who abuse children, what is the trait most commonly shared by all of them?
they were themselves abused as children
New productive technologies can riase difficult and troubling questions, including which of the following?
to what extent shoud we select traits of our children
Which of the followng is not one of the main factors that contributes to divorce?
today more than in the past, women are economically dependent on men
micah is a sociologist who is studying the family guiding by the structural functional approach. Which of the following ideas is likely to be the focus of his research?
why the family can be called the "backbone of society" and how families support our way of life
Which of the following statements correctly explains why all societies recognize some form of incest taboo?
widespread incest would confuse kinship ties
Lillian Rubin studied women's marital expectations of a husband comparing working class women and middle class women. What did she conclude?
working class women hoped that husbands would provide for them and not be violent
Which of the following statments correctly links a woman's expectations about the qualities of a "good" husband and her social class position?
working class women think of a good husband as someone not prone to violence
