Sociology Final Exam (ch 12)

Which of the following is a strategy that women have used to balance the demands of work and home?

hiring other women to do domestic work

Why are remarriage rates lower today than they were in the 1960s?

There has been an increase in cohabitation among unmarried couples.

American ideology focuses on the importance of marriage and family values and assumes that the family is at the center of almost everyone's life. How does this compare to the way people really live?

Increasingly, both marriage and the family are less central to the lives of average Americans/

How did the Industrial Revolution change the common meaning of family?

It shifted the meaning from extended family to nuclear family.

Why do the authors of your textbook reject definitions of family that depend on particular types of people (like parents) and specific types of ties (like marriage)?

They want the definition to be broad enough to encompass a variety of living arrangements.

How would sociologist define "family"?

an interdependent social group bound by legal, biological, or emotional ties

What did the research subjects of Glaser, Dixit, and Green's 2002 study of white supremacist online chatrooms find most threatening?

interracial marriage

what feature of the nuclear family, as opposed to the extended family, makes it uniquely qualifies to serve the needs of an industrial economy?

it makes geographic mobility much easier

According to the text, what are the major factors involved in forming relationships and selecting mates?

personal chemistry the unique individual characteristics of the individual characteristics of the individuals involved the tendency to choose mates who are similar in class, race, ethnicity, and age the desire to find a mate who is exotic and comes from a radically different back ground the tendency to look for a mate far from home

How does the U.S Census Bureau define "family"?

two or more individuals related by blood, marriage, or adoption who share a household