HDFS 2200 Midterm

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%

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

81%

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

Boys are often hit harder by the absence of married parents and of a father than girls

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

What state was featured in Sex 101 and has one of the most progressive sex ed laws in the country?

California

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

Ethics of sexual behavior

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

Family members exhibited a strong sense of obligation toward one another

Which of the following examples best describes the term transgender

Individual who gender identity does not match assigned sex

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

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

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

Lady Gaga

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

Late nineteenth century

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

Latinos

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

Lawn care

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

Rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have decreased

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

Relevance

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

Children loved by parents were more likely to survive infancy

One difficulty of studying families is identifying whether something causes something else. In many cases, two things may occur together (such as the use of nightlights and nearsightedness), but one may not cause the other. The process by which social scientists establish an association between two phenomena is known as

Correlation

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 marriages

Which is NOT a reason that persons who are Black have poorer health than persons who are White?

Decreased stress hormone

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

Disparate forces prompted migration among this group, with some searching for an escape from poverty and others hoping to use their skills in a new country -> Central and South Americans Members of this group enjoyed automatic right of residency in the U.S. mainland -> Puerto Ricans Migration started in response to a political revolution in this group's home country -> Cubans Although some were already living in the U.S. when their territory was annexed, migrants continue to move to the U.S. in search of jobs and better lives

According to the video Sex 101, high schools offer a teen health clinic, free contraceptives, free condoms, and fact-based sex ed:

Do not affect how much teens think about sex because virtually every teen is exposed to sex in the media and society

Which of the following occupations is the LEAST female dominated?

Electricians

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 Couple are less committed to each other

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

Shooting an innocent person

What disciplines inform HDFS?

Sociology, psychology, economics

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

What is NOT a feature of Google Scholar search?

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

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

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

The two major political parties in the United States have existed for decades, and despite strong partisanship, citizens generally follow the governance of either party

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

Time use

The purpose of marriage for people today differ 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?

To acquire advantageous in-laws and expand the family labor force

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

True

T/F Edward and Jacob both treat women as if they are property

True

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

Unmarried female-headed families

How are women presented in the Twilight Saga?

Weak, passive, and in need of protection

Which of the following is NOT a common microaggression?

Where are you from?

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

Whites comprise a much larger proportion of the U.S. population

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

Working class

The families in TWO American Families lived in which city?

Milwaukee

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

More income following the 2008 recession

In the video, what are microaggressions compared to?

Mosquito bites

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

Motivation

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

American Indians

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

An advent of modern birth control Young people's living alone before marriage Sex among older adults

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

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

What is HDFS?

An interdisciplinary area of study that focuses on families in context

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

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

Assimilation most ofter occurs before acculturation

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

Being born after 1990 Being female

Because of 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, emotional, legal

According to How Racism Makes Us Sick, who has a shorter (lower) life expectancy?

Blacks

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

What is the summary of an article called?

Abstract

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

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

All women

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

Almost all Americans have sex before marriage

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

Facts provide information about family life, whereas theory is a way to explain how those facts influence one another

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

False

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

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

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

Fingernail test

Ina 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 in 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

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

Greater biological susceptibility by race

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

Growing up with married parents

Which of these topics is more unique to HFDS than Sociology

HDFS: Family SOC: Society

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

Have a clear research questions and/or topic statement

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

He creates experiences that force him to be vulnerable, no matter how scary it may feel

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 more than one wife, reflecting the power of wealthy and influential men

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

Michelle has a Russian grandmother who shares recipes with her and tells her stories about her life in Russia in the 1930s and 1940s

According to Melvin Kohn's classic series of studies, how do both middle- and working-class parents' experiences with work influence their parenting?

Parents teach their children the interpersonal skills that they use in their own jobs

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

Popularity

The high school prom has been 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 the most accurate example of a split-household family?

A Chinese man works on a U.S. railroad, leaving his wife behind in China

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

A cohabiting couple who has been together for 10 years A single man and his two dogs

What is the conflict that Justin Baldwin 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

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

Blacks

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

Deciding who could marry into which families

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 describes the term matrilineal?

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

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

They apply understandings of the biological underpinnings of sex differences to common family traits and practices today

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

They don't have much time to date, but many still do