ch. 18 pearson quiz

today, about ____ of marriages end in seperation or divorce within five years.

20%

How does the U.S. census bureau define family for the purposes of data collection?

people living together, linked by birth, adoption, and marriage

industrialization both erodes the importance of extended families and:

pushes back the age at first marriage

which state was the first to legalize same sex marriage in 2004?

Massachusetts

in western societies, a new family typically begins with the process of:

courtship

A sociologist who compares marital expectations between women of different class positions discovers that working-class women have _____ expectations of their spouses compared to middle-class women:

different

children were____ to the family in preindustrial societies, but they are ____ in postindustrial cultures:

economic liabilities; independent

among our society, ______ seems to be changing the fastest:

family

children born into affluent families are more likely than children of working-class families to:

go on to greater achievement as adults

ideal societies value and encourage:

romantic love

the oldest of the baby boomers are called the _____, because they will typically spend as many years caring for their aging parents as they did caring for their children:

sandwich tradition

as women join the labor force, patriarchal attitudes tend to:

shift toward gender equality

how does the text define the concept of family?

the family is a social institution found in all societies that unites people in a cooperative and caring group

why do some sociologists choose a micro-level rather than a macro-level system of analysis to study families:

they are interested in how individuals actually experience family life

t or f. compared to single men, married men seem to live longer, are mentally better off, and report being happier overall then single men:

true

new productive technologies can raise difficult and troubling questions, including:

when one woman carries the embryo developed from the egg of another, who is the mother?

the most common combination of interacial marriage:

white and Asian

how does social class affect a woman's expectations regarding the qualities of a good husband?

working-class women think of a good husband as someone not prone to violence