Inquizitive Questions
Which of the following class structures includes the highest percentage of Americans?
Working class
Which of the following is a unique circumstance for unmarried parents?
They don't have much time to date but still do.
Imagine you are selected to take part in a study, and the researcher asks you to track and report the times of day in which you study, work, relax, interact with family, and interact with friends. What kind of study method would this be?
Time use
Which of the following is NOT associated with stronger feelings of homophobia?
Being female, being born after 1990
Identify the statement that describes why some researchers argue that love is an evolutionary adaptation.
Children loved by their parents were more likely to survive infancy
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 groups is LEAST likely to intermarry with those of other races or ethnicities?
White women
Which of the following statements about acculturation and assimilation is NOT true?
Assimilation most often occurs before acculturation.
When did the word homosexual first begin to appear as a way to describe someone's identity?
Late nineteenth century
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.
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 earnings are what percentage of men's weekly earnings?
81%
Which of the following examples DOES NOT fit the definition of a legal family?
A single man and his two dogs, a cohabiting couple who has been together for ten years
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 daughters home to help take care of his grandchildren.
Identify the statement that describes how the rising age at first marriage impacted sexual behavior.
Almost all Americans have sex before marriage
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.
Because 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?
Emotional, biological, and legal
Which of the following is NOT a major lens through which social scientists study sexuality?
Ethics of sexual behavior
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.
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, couples are less committed to each other
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
According to the textbook, which of the following is a reason why sexual behavior is less constrained now than it was in the past?
Young people's living alone before marriage, sex among older adults, the advent of modern birth control
Which of the following groups is the most isolated group in terms of dating?
Blacks
Which of the following mate selection patterns creates the most inequality in a society?
Adults only marry within their social class
A ___________ is a group of people who experience an event together at the same time. Such as being born in the same period
Cohort
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
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 occupations is the LEAST female dominated?
Electricians
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.
Which of the following factors DOES NOT contribute to the relatively high rate of HIV infection in the African American population?
Greater biological susceptibility by race
The high school prom has been a 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 NOT an example of how the birth control pill may have had repercussions for society once it was widely available?
Rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have decreased
Which of the following types of families is most likely to be poor?
Unmarried female-headed families
Which of the following is the force that prompted Mexican migration to the U.S.?
Although some were already living in the United States when their territory was annexed, migrants continue to move to the United States in search of jobs and better lives.