Sociology

Fill in the blanks to complete the passage about housework by gender and couple type

-housework -straight

Between 2020 and 2060 the Census Bureau estimates the total U.S. population will increase 22 percent, while the number over age 100 will jump more than 500 percent.

22 500

Fill in the blanks to complete the passage about housework by gender and couple type

Acquaintance intimate partner stranger other relative

Identify the arguments Americans made about divorce in the late nineteenth century.

Argument(s): Remarriage was viewed as more of a problem than divorce. Many feared that allowing men and women to divorce would degrade the meaning of marriage. Many viewed remarriage for the spouse who had been "innocent" as acceptable. Not Argument(s): Evaluations of divorce and remarriage varied widely, depending on religious affiliation.

Place each reason for not reporting intimate partner violent crime with the correct percentage of victims who state that reason

Dealt with personally -21% Police wouldn't or couldn't help -15% Fear of reprisal or getting offender in trouble -38%

Fill in the blanks to complete the passage about families.

Families that contain stepparents, stepsiblings, or half-siblings are blended families. When these families have disagreements about who is in the family, or what role people play, this is called boundary ambiguity. This can become even more complex in families in which the parents are not married.

"Time use" is a common phrase in sociology. Based on this figure, identify the gender differences in time use in a typical day in 2018.

Gender Difference(s) Women spend less time watching television. Women spend more time caring for household members. Men spend more time in paid work. Not Gender Difference(s) Men spend more time on grooming. Women spend more time on nonwork activities.

Identify the methods used to estimate the likelihood that any given marriage today will end in divorce.

Method(s) Used: apply the yearly divorce rate to all marriages apply the divorce rates of prior cohorts of married couples to current cohorts Not Method(s) Used: construct models from surveys of newly married couples using their relationship quality, income, and other factors to predict divorce

Steve and Sharon are married with children. Steve works 40 hours per week outside the home, and Sharon works 10 hours per week outside the home. Select the prediction that is most strongly supported by time use studies about gender balance.

Steve will do less unpaid housework because his greater obligations outside the home leave him with less available time

Match each social theme to the appropriate example of how divorce and remarriage have changed family life.

There is a range of family relationships, such as step- and half-siblings, parents, and children: family diversity The likelihood of experiencing divorce and remarriage is higher among those with lower education: inequality The relatively common experience of divorce reflects people's expectations that relationships will lead to individual fulfillment: social change

Lesbians and straight women are both more likely to experience intimate partner violence than gay and straight men.

True

According to the 2015 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey conducted by the federal government, what percentage of women in the United States have been raped at some time in their lives?

-14%

Since the 1990s the United States has experienced steep declines in the level of criminal violence. Violence within families seems to have followed this trend.

-Steep Declines -Families

Select the bold terms and phrases that represent circumstances that would put the couple at relatively greater risk for violence.

-Struggling with money -Young -Drinking

Review the figure. Then match each example to the type of inequality that challenges people and their families.

A single mother works 50 hours a week, and so does a single father. The single mother's income is significantly lower than the single father's: inequality between families The child of a high school graduate with low income is not likely to achieve a higher standard of living: inequality from generation to generation A man is imprisoned for drug sales and is separated from his parents and from his children: inequality for those with no families In a married family, the wife works 40 hours and does the vast majority of child care and housework. The husband works 40 hours and helps out at home when he is able: inequality within families

Fill in the blanks to complete the passage about changes in the feminization of poverty.

In recent years, the feminization of poverty has lessened because women now have more education and work experience. This means that they can obtain better jobs after divorce than in the past. In addition, most couples have fewer kids, helping to alleviate poverty.

Fill in the blanks to complete the passage about child care in the United States and Europe

In the United States, it is common for children to have only informal or family-based child care at young ages and to start school around age 5. In contrast, in France and the United Kingdom, children start school at age 3.

Identify the true and false statements regarding the changes in housework over the last half-century.

True Statement(s) The amount of time women and men devote to housework has been affected by women joining the labor force. Married women have decreased their total time doing housework. As women's incomes have increased, their tendency to be the primary caregiver has decreased. In 1965, married women spent seven times as many hours on housework as married men. False Statement(s) Since 2010, married women and married men have spent equal amounts of time doing housework. Married men have decreased their total time doing housework.

Identify the true and false statements about why unpaid labor (family-based housework and care work) often seems invisible, especially to people outside the family.

True Statement(s) The benefits of this work sometimes take years to appear. There is no formal accounting of both work completed and compensation. False Statement(s) Unpaid labor cannot be accounted for, because much of it is care work. Sociologists study work time but mostly ignore what people do when they are unpaid.

Fill in the blanks to complete the passage about the divorce revolution.

What came to be called the "divorce revolution" occurred during the 1960s-1980s and was marked by a dramatic increase in the divorce rate. Although not the primary cause, new no-fault divorce laws contributed to this change because married men and women could now get divorced without an accusation of wrongdoing and without the consent of their partners.

Match each term to its definition.

a determination that a marriage was never valid: annulment the legal dissolution of marriage: divorce the end of a marriage: marital dissolution the formal or informal end of a marital relationship in which one or both partners move out of the home: separation

Select the bold terms that represent factors that would likely lead Dorit and Kelii to have more children than the average family in the United States

immigrated ambitious ethnic enclave

Match each single-parent scenario to its sociological description.

more likely to live with a partner who can help care for the children: Tim is a single father with two high-school aged children. more likely to experience serious work-family conflict: Emily is a single mother with two preschoolers.

Responses to future family diversity can be classified as conservative, liberal, or critical. Select the bold phrase that represents a critical policy proposal.

universal basic income