FAM Midterm
Which of the following racial/ethnic groups has the highest poverty rate?
American Indian
Based off what we learned in the video, what is a microaggression?
An indirect, subtle, or unintentional act of discrimination against a marginalized group
Which of the following examples best describes the term transgender?
Emily was assigned female at birth but recently asked friends and family to use his chosen name (Mike) and pronouns (he/him)
T/F We should assume that someone is being dramatic if they react to a microaggression made against them.
False
Which of the following is the characteristic of family life for 19thcentury Mexican Americans?
Family members exhibited a strong sense of obligation toward one another.
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.
The families in Two American Families lived in which city?
Milwaukee
Which of these topics is more unique to Human Development and Family Science than a Sociology course?
Parenting
According to Melvin Kohn's classic series of studies, how do both middle- and working-class parents' experiences with work influence their parenting?
Parents teach their children the interpersonal skills that they use in their own jobs
How are women presented in the Twilight Saga?
Passive and weak
In Meet the Patels, according Ravi's parents, what should his wife's last name be?
Patel
According to the textbook, which of the following is a reason why sexual behavior is less constrained now than it was in the past?
Sex among older adults. Young people's living alone before marriage. The advent of modern birth control.
The video gives an example of a micraggression that can lead to death. What was the example?
Shooting an innocent person
Scholars are unsure why marriage matters for children, but they know it does. What is NOT something, mentioned in the Family Structure Matters article, that may be affected in children's lives when living in an unmarried household?
Strained relationships with siblings
What IS NOT a feature of a Google Scholar search?
The ability to limit the search to articles that are easy to read and more accessible
The author of The Way We Never Were: American Families And The Nostalgia Trap, notes that despite the many transformations since the first publication of her book, this one thing has not changed...
The tendency for Americans to view present-day family and gender relations through nostalgia
The purpose of marriage for people today differs greatly from people in the past. According to the article, The Way We Never Were, what was the most common purpose of marriage in our history?
The tendency for Americans to view present-day family and gender relations through nostalgia
Which of the following is a unique circumstance for unmarried parents?
They don't have much time to date, but many still do
The article discusses a correlation between a reoccurring theme in the Twilight series and the real world. Who are most responsible for female victimization?
intimate partners
When did the word homosexual first begin to appear as a way to describe someone's identity?
late nineteenth century
Which of the following mate selection patterns creates the most inequality in a society?
mate selection based on class and education
For the families in Two American Families, what was the major issue that was the catalyst for the family issues?
money, job loss
The families in Two American Families DID NOT experience the following:
more income following the 2008 recession
In the video, what are "microaggressions" compared to?
mosquito bites
Which of the following IS NOT a factor that made building and maintaining families difficult for slaves in the period between 1619 and the end of the Civil War (in the mid-1800s)?
most enslaved children did not live with their parents
Which of the following is NOT a main form of scarcity that single-mother families often face in contrast to two-parent families?
motivation
According to the CRAAP method, which of the following IS NOT one of the 5 tips to evaluate a website?
not currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, purpose
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 eventually lead 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 have decreased
What does the "R" in the CRAAP method stand for?
relevance
What was a relatively common form of polygamy in the nineteenth century?
the practice in mormon families to have more than one wife
According to Is hooking up bad for young women?, young people today are having ____ sex at ____ ages than their parents.
the same amount of; similar
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
Which of the following class structures includes the highest percentage of Americans?
the working class
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
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
A cohort is a group of people who experience an event together at the same time.
true
True or False: Edward and Jacob both treat women as if they are property.
true
Which of the following types of families is most likely to be poor?
unmarried female-headed families
Which of the following groups is LEAST likely to intermarry with those of other races or ethnicities?
white women
Why does the percentage of Whites married to Blacks in the United States differ so significantly from the parentage of Blacks married to Whites in the United States?
whites compromise a much larger portion of the population
Which of the following is NOT an example of a microaggression?
What's up?
Which of the following statements is NOT a common microaggression?
What's your major?
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 examples DOES NOT fit the definition of a legal family?
a cohabiting couple who has been together for 10 years, a single man and his two dogs
Which of the following is an example of familism?
a grandfather moves into his daughter's home to help take care of his grandchildren, a teenager misses several days of school to look after a sick relative
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 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
What types of websites should be utilized for research?
.org, .edu
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%
What is the conflict that Justin Baldoni describes related to his life?
A conflict between who he feels he is and who the world tells him he should be as a man.
What is the summary of an article called?
Abstract
Which of the following options is not a way in which the Twilight Saga reinforces the marginalization of women and girls?
All of the vampires in the saga are male
Who does Justin Baldoni ask to forgive him (and all the other men of the world) at the end of the video?
All women
Which of the following is NOT associated with stronger feelings of homophobia?
Being female. Being born after 1990.
According to How Racism Makes Us Sick, who has a shorter (lower) life expectancy?
Black people
What is the big reason, according the Family Structure Matters, that the gender gap in educational, behavioral, and social outcomes is growing?
Boys are often hit harder by having unmarried parents and by the absence of a father
What state was featured in Sex 101 and has one of the most progressive sex ed laws in the country?
California
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?
Couples are less committed to each other. Sexual freedom has increased.
Which is NOT a reason that persons who are Black have poorer health than persons who are White?
Decreased Stress Hormones
According to the video Sex 101, high schools that offer a teen health clinic, free contraceptives, free condoms, and fact-based sex ed:
Do not affect how much teens think about sex because virtually every teen is exposed to sex in the media and society
What is Human Development and Family Science?
Dynamics of family interaction over the life cycle; emphasis on developmental, social, and cultural influences on the family experience.
For the Nuemann family, which of the following were NOT stressors that the family faced in addition to poverty?
Meddling in-laws
In a story from the textbook, a woman recalled, "In 1969 I even started to wear trousers to work (as a social worker). At the time this was certainly frowned on, yet two years later social workers were roaming the inner city in torn jeans, gym shoes and bra-less T-shirts." What concept does this story exemplify?
Gender roles change over time and across place
According to Harvard economist Raj Chetty, which of the following is one of the strongest predictors of upward mobility?
Growing up with married parents
Before you begin reading a scholarly journal article, what should you do first?
Have a clear research question and/or topic statement
Which of the following is one of the ways that Justin Baldoni attempts to get past the fact that he isn't comfortable talking about his feelings?
He creates experiences that force him to be vulnerable, no matter how scary it may feel.
Which of the following describes the term matrilineal?
In this family arrangement, wealth and power are transmitted from mothers to daughters.
According to Modern Romance, the soul mate marriage is different from the companionate marriage in the following ways:
Individuals in soul mate marriages want their partners to be their best friend, trusted confidant, and most passionate lover.
What is the purpose of Google Scholar?
It sorts articles that Google considers scholarly so that anyone interested may look at the current research.
In which of the following examples, does the young person have the highest life chance?
Justin Smith is the son of a successful and wealthy businessman and is graduating from Harvard this year
According to How to Lose Your Virginity, the virgin violinist played for what pop star?
Lady Gaga
When faced with economic difficulty, what business did the Stanley sons begin in order to help the family?
Lawn care
According to the report posted in the Washington Post, discussed in Family Structure Matters, how are states with high levels of married parenthood NOT affected?
Lower levels of growth for the state
What disciplines inform HDFS?
all of these (sociology, economics, psychology)
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
Which of the following statements about acculturation and assimilation is NOT true?
assimilation most often occurs before acculturation
Which of the following groups is the most isolated group in terms of dating?
black people
What is an example of a way in which an elementary school teacher might engage in gender socialization in schools?
by reprimanding a girl for playing on the jungle gym because she is wearing a dress
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
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
Which of the following is NOT a way in which the federal government increased legal regulation of family life during the industrial era?
creating rules for religious organizations' role in sanctifying marriages
Which of the following roles related to marriage was NOT a role played by the state-established churches in the early European Societies?
deciding who could marry into which families
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
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, legal
Which of the following is NOT a major lens through which social scientists study sexuality?
ethics of sexual behavior
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
According to How to Lost Your Virginity, purity balls may be negative because
fathers and husbands are put in charge of women's sexuality.
According to How to Lose Your Virginity, which of the following were NOT used to check for virgins?
fingernail test
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
According to Modern Romance, the average of age at marriage in the US:
has increased for both men and women
