InQuizitive: Chapter 12. Family

According to sociologist Sharon Hays, the most desperate women in America have to choose between being ____workers and being responsible____What she means is that in order to provide for their children, these women have to engage in behaviors that are risky and possibly illegal—earning money through____and drug dealing, and concealing even their legal income from____, to avoid cuts in___

-responsible -mothers -prostitution -the government -financial assistance

Identify the changes that made the family structure of the 1950s unique compared to earlier times.

Change(s) Men and women got married sooner. Average family size increased. The divorce rate dipped. Home ownership increased.

In this video, sociologist Andrew Cherlin reflects on the place of marriage in American culture. Identify Cherlin's explanations for the surprisingly high divorce rates in a population that claims to place great value on marriage.

Cherlin's Explanation(s) Americans are individualistic in their life expectations. Americans have a traditionalist outlook that dates back to Colonial times.

Identify the factors that contribute to a more equal division of labor between same-sex couples compared to heterosexual couples.

Contributing Factor(s) Same-sex couples are more likely to have similar labor force positions. Housework helps to legitimize their status as a couple. Same-sex couples have compatible expectations about the division of housework.

Identify the factors that contribute to the neglect and abuse of children by caregivers.

Contributing Factor(s) low educational attainment by parents poverty a one-parent family arrangement

Identify the terms social scientists use to describe interracial marriage.

Correct Description(s) exogamy outmarriage

Cohabitation is a relatively recent family form in which intimate partners live together without any____or religious sanctions. Its opponents depict this family form as a(n)___for marriage or a(n)____arrangement..

1. formal 2. trial run 3. sinful

Label each portion of the pie chart according to the distribution of each family type in 2015.

25%- Single parent 35%- married parents, both employed 12%- other two parent family arrangements 22%- male breadwinner 6%- all other families

This figure shows the US divorce rate in annual divorces per 1,000 people from 1920 to 2014. Identify the reasonable explanations for the downward trend in the divorce rate, starting in about 1980, according to the text.

Explanation(s) Americans are getting married later, when they are more mature. Fewer people are getting married, so fewer people are getting divorced.

Identify the factors that explain the relative abundance of female-headed households in black communities.

Factor(s) high rate of incarceration among African American men lack of good jobs available for men

Place the types of elder abuse in order from most to least common.

Financial abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse

Identify who would qualify as Latino in the United States, according to the US Census Bureau.

Latino a Caucasian person born and raised in Spain a person of Colombian ancestry born and raised in Japan a person of Panamanian ancestry born and raised in the United States. a person of Asian ancestry born and raised in Mexico

Identify the rights that come with being legally married.

Right(s) to make medical decisions for one's spouse to be covered by a spouse's employer-provided family health insurance to transfer income and property to and from one's spouse, tax-free

Conley contrasts a contemporary couple, Ozzie and Harry, with the fictional 1950s couple from the TV show The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Identify the reasons why the couple named Ozzie and Harry differ from the Ozzie and Harriet portrayed in the TV show.

Reason(s) Ozzie and Harry are a same-sex couple. Ozzie and Harry are of different ethnicities.

Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, which analyzed the downsides of being a homemaker. How did sociologists elaborate on her argument?

Sociologists argued that power dynamics underlie family relationships.

Identify the structural features of 1950s society that made the "nuclear family" possible.

Structural Feature(s) high wages low cost of living suburban living

Identify the statistical observations about women in the US labor force that are supported by the graph shown.

Supported Observation(s) By 1980, more women were in the labor force than out of it. The number of women in the labor force has more or less stabilized.

Which point about sibling relationships is illustrated by the family of former president Bill Clinton?

Two siblings with similar starting points can have very unequal outcomes

Which development in the 1950s made the ideal of the nuclear family attainable for a large fraction of the US population?

a sharp rise in inflation-adjusted wages

Researchers have remarked that when husband and wife both work, the income is gendered. This means that although the____usually makes most of the week-by-week purchasing decisions, money earned by the husband is earmarked for___, like____, whereas money earned by the wife is earmarked for____, like___.

wife necessities rent nonessentials family outgoings