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Structural changes brought on by industrialization in the United States meant that families changed from "grapevine" forms to:

"beanpoles."

Amy and her husband Seamus both work. Outside working hours, Amy does most of the housework and Seamus serves on the local city council. Sarah Fenstermaker Berk, who studies family role formation, has called the family a:

"gender factory."

Amy is a married woman with children. She and her partner Alan both work full-time jobs. When they come home, Amy makes dinner, cleans, and tends to the children for the evening. Alan helps with these things sometimes, but many days he rests after work. If Arlie Hochschild saw this household, she would say Amy is experiencing the:

"second shift."

About how long do the majority of single mothers stay on the welfare rolls in the United States?

2 years

In 2007, intimate partner violence accounted for more than 2,300 deaths. What percentage of these victims were male?

30 percent

Approximately what percentage of Americans marry at some point in their lives?

50 percent

The Soron family consists of a male breadwinner, a female housewife, and their children, ages 3 and 5. A sociologist might see the Soron family as statistically interesting, because their children share this family arrangement with about ________ of other children in 2012.

56 percent

A TV director pitches the idea of remaking The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, but with African American characters. An African American producer says, "This is a terrible idea! That family never could have been black!" Why was the traditional family depicted in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet never a reality for African American families?

African American women have always had to combine work and family.

Who wrote The Feminine Mystique (1963)?

Betty Friedan

Journalist Barbara Ehrenreich traveled around the country to study firsthand what it was like to "get by" working low-wage jobs. Which of the following is true about her experiences?

Even with only herself to support and juggling two or more jobs, she sunk deeper into poverty and debt.

Which of the following characterized the preindustrial family?

Husbands and wives were partners in both homemaking and economic labor.

According to Ruth Schwartz Cowan's 1983 research, time-saving devices like the vacuum cleaner and washing machine have actually increased the amount of time women spend on housework. What explanation is given for her finding?

Standards of cleanliness have also risen, so even more cleaning is expected.

Recent trends indicate that weekly hours of housework done by men and women are converging. Which of the following statements indicates how household labor is divided by gender?

Women do the housework and men help out.

Cole's parents divorced when he was six, but now both of them are remarried. He has two stepsisters on his mother's side and a new stepbrother on his father's side. These families are examples of which of the following type of family?

a blended family

In the 1960s, many social scientists, including Daniel Patrick Moynihan, viewed the strong role held by women in many African American families as:

a detrimental characteristic that undermined men's roles in the family and caused all sorts of social problems.

Which of the following factors contributed to the development of the ideal of the traditional family (male breadwinner and female homemaker) in post-World War II America?

an increase in real wages

The Lovings embrace in this photograph, celebrating the Supreme Court decision that, in Loving v. Virginia (1967), struck down America's ________ laws.

antimiscegenation

Melissa keeps a poster showing the Victorian feminine domestic ideal in her dorm room. She says she loves imagining the past when women's worlds were at home and women supported each other in child rearing. Melissa enjoys imagining the:

cult of domesticity.

Gausa has fallen in love with Niso, a man who is outside her ethnic group. Her family shames her and convinces her to marry Xhoso, a man within her group. Gausa is following her ethnic group's rule of:

endogamy.

If Jerome won't have a relationship with someone who lives in his dormitory, which he jokingly refers to as "dorm-cest," he is practicing the rule known as:

exogamy.

In her native country of India, Malina's family would have insisted that she marry someone of a similar ethnicity and social class. Her family has immigrated to the United States, and though her family disapproves, Malina marries a Hawaiian man she has fallen in love with. Her choice reflects her preference for the U.S. marriage rule of:

exogamy.

Grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins who live together in a multigenerational household are considered a(n) ________ family.

extended

Marriages that cross racial and ethnic lines have become more common in the United States, although most U.S. marriages are still racially and ethnically endogamous. What factors might discourage exogamy?

facing ostracism from within one's community

In his book The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today (2009), sociologist Andrew Cherlin proposes that America's "love-hate" relationship with marriage stems from the:

fact that Americans are individualistic and evaluate their marriages in personal terms.

Rodney and Tina are a married couple with children. They split up work, chores, and childcare, and they feel the balance is pretty much equal. Sociologist Barbara Risman calls this a(n) ________ family.

fair

Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski (1913) examined the family structure of nontraditional cultures and settled a long-standing debate when he concluded that:

family is a universal human institution.

The ________ theory of the family, developed by Talcott Parsons, argues that nuclear families are necessary for child rearing and fulfilling society's need for productive workers.

functionalist

Nani is a Zambian girl who needs advice regarding a friendship conflict. Following the norms of her culture, she is likely to seek advice from:

her aunt.

John and Monique are married. Both of their parents live with them, as does John's sister and brother-in-law and some nieces and nephews. This is known as a ________ network.

kinship

According to research in Dalton Conley's The Pecking Order (2004), how does the average income of daughters raised by stay-at-home mothers compare to that of daughters of working moms? The daughters of stay-at-home mothers are:

less likely to earn as much as their brothers.

In some rural areas of Asia, women can have several husbands at one time. This practice is known as:

monogamy.

The Frith family consists of a mother, a father, and their biological children. Sociologists classify this as a(n) ________ family.

nuclear

John has two wives because his society allows:

polygyny

Structural changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution had major consequences for families. One important consequence is that the Industrial Revolution:

separated work and home and created new roles for men and women.

According to your textbook, the most frequent form of domestic violence is:

sibling on sibling.

Which 1996 legislation led to national welfare reform during the Clinton administration?

the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act

Black and poor women in the United States have come to rely on which of the following in order to manage child care and work responsibilities?

their extrafamilial female networks

It is difficult to make generalizations about Latino families in the United States because:

their origins and geography are so diverse.

Phillipe Aries wrote that children of preindustrial families were:

thought of as small adults who didn't warrant any special treatment or nurturing.

In the Na culture of China, a little boy grows up very close to one of his male relatives. Everyone expects a strong degree of influence between this man and the child. This role model male relative is the boy's:

uncle.