Family Development Midterm Study Guide - Revised

A theorist might point to which social fact to support the consensus perspective?

The two major political parties in the US cause strong partisanship, but citizens will follow the governance of either party.

A typical college graduate earns ________ as a typical high school graduate

Two times

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%

What percentage of people report themselves to be middle class?

44%

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.

Which of the following is an example of Familism?

A grandfather moves his daughters' home to help take care of his grandchildren. A teenager misses several days of school to look after a sick relative

According to Modern Romance, an ideal first date would be:

A monster truck rally

Which of the following options is not a way in which the Twilight Saga reinforces the marginalization of women and girls?

All 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

Identify the statement that describes how the rising age at first marriage impacted sexual behavior.

Almost all Americans have sex before marriage

Why does the percentage of whites married to blacks in the US differ so significantly from the percentage of blacks married to whites in the US?

Whites comprise a much larger portion of the US population

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 peoples' living alone before marriage, the advent of modern birth control, sex among older adults

Which of the following is the most accurate example of a split-household family?

a Chinese man works on the US railroad, leaving his wife behind in china

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 Early European societies?

deciding who could marry into which families

Identify the term that describes the process of immigrant children adapting to the new culture more rapidly than their parents.

dissonant acculturation

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.

Which of the following is the characteristic of family life for the 19th century Mexican Americans?

Family members exhibited a strong sense of obligation toward 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 Modern Romance, the soul mate marriage is different from the companionate marriage in the following ways:

Individuals in soulmate marriages want their partners to be their best friend, trusted confidant, and most passionate lover.

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 19th century

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

Which group in the Maze Experiment (2010) produced the greatest mazes solved?

Pay per Output

T/F We should assume that someone is being dramatic if they react to a microaggression made against them.

false

The difficulty of studying families....

is identifying whether something causes something else. In many cases, two things may occur together, but one may not cause the other.

What types of websites should be utilized for research?

journals

In the video, what are "microaggressions" compared to?

mosquito bites

Which of the following examples does not fit the definition of a legal family?

non-marriage, cohabitation, foster families, other non-relatives

According to the CRAAP method, which of the following IS NOT one of the 5 tips to evaluate a website?

popularity

In Meet the Patels, why wouldn't/don't Ravi's parents like Audrey?

she is culturally American

The video gives an example of a micraggression that can lead to death. What was the example?

shooting an innocent person

Which of the following is NOT a main form of scarcity that single-mother families often face in contrast to two-parent families?

motivation

Which of the following is the force that prompted Mexican migration to the US?

Although some were already living in the US when their territory was annexed, migrants continue to move to the US in search of jobs and better lives.

Which of the following racial/ethnic groups has the highest poverty rate?

American Indians

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).

Which of the following is NOT a major lens through which social scientists study sexuality?

Ethics of sexual behavior

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?

Individual acts of nonconformity producing social change in gender patterns.

In which of the following examples, does the young person have the highest life chance?

Justin Smith is the son of a successful and wealth businessman and is graduating from Harvard this year.

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.

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.

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.

Which of the following is a unique circumstance for unmarried parents?

They don't have much time to date, but many still do.

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

According to How to Lose Your Virginity, which of the following were NOT used to check for virgins?

fingernail test

In Meet the Patels, who does Ravi live with?

his sister

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

What does the "R" in the CRAAP method stand for?

relevance

What is meant by the term "token resistance"?

saying no, but meaning yes

Which of the following describes the matrilineal family?

wealth and power is transmitted from the mothers to daughters

Which of the following is NOT an example of a microaggression?

whats up?

Which of the following statements is NOT a common microaggression?

where are you from?

According to How to Lose Your Virginity, the virgin violinist played for what pop star?

lady gaga

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 own social class.

According to Modern Romance, the "best of" mentality?

Affects our search for romantic partners

Which of the following is NOT associated with stronger feelings of homophobia?

Being female, being born after 1990

According to College Students and Sexual Consent: Unique Insights, female college students:

Believe men should make the first move towards sex. (initiator)

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.

What four cities did the researcher go to in the Making Ends Meet (1997) study?

Chicago, San Antonio, Charleston, Boston

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 NOT one of the distinct themes identified in the study?

College student's promiscuity regardless of gender

In Meet the Patels, what is bio data?

Detailed personal information to be given to a prospective match and their family.

Which of the following occupations is the LEAST female dominated?

Electricians and construction workers

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

The process by which social scientists establish an association between two phenomena is known as ___________

correlation

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?

Gain advantageous in-laws and expand the family labor force.

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 Harvard economist Raj Chetty, which of the following is one of the strongest predictors of upward mobility?

Growing up with married parents

According to Modern Romance, the average of age at marriage in the US:

Had increased for both men and women

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, not matter how scary it may feel.

According to rape justification literature, what is a widely held assumption among men?

If a women engages in some level of physical activity with a man, she is obligated to have intercourse and thus he can just tell her they are going to have sex.

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

Which of the following is an example of a 3rd generation immigrant?

Michelle had a Russian grandmother who shares recipes with her and tells her stories about her life in Russia in the 1930s - 1940s) - I am a 3rd generation immigrant

Which of these topics is more unique to Human Development and Family Science than a Sociology course?

Parenting

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 to marriage.

What disciplines inform HDFS?

Psychology, sociology, biology, public health and economics.

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

What is the purpose of Google Scholar?

Sorts articles that google considers scholarly so that anyone interested may look at the current research.

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

What was a relatively common form of polygamy in the 19th century?

The practice in Mormon communities for a man to have more than one wife

Imagine you are selected to take part in a study, and the researcher asks you to track and report the times of a day in which you study, work, relax and interact with family and friends. What kind of study method is this?

Time Use Study

Which of the following types of families is most likely to be poor?

Unmarried female-headed families

According to College Students and Sexual Consent: Unique Insights, male college students:

Use force or their strength to position women into giving oral sex

What did Justin Baldoni challenge men to do?

Use the same qualities that they feel make them a man to go deeper into themselves.

According to researchers, which of the following indicates that young people endorse the belief that men's sexual pleasure supersedes women's sexual pleasure?

When asked a vaguely worded question regarding consent to oral sex, most men and women interpreted the question as asking how men consent to receive oral sex and how women consent to perform oral sex.

What is the summary of an article called?

abstract

Which of the following statements about acculturation and assimilation is NOT true?

assimilation most often occurs before acculturation

A _____________ is a group of people who experience an event together at the same time

cohort

What has happened to the median earnings for full time, male workers since 1973?

the wages have remained roughly the same

Which of the following class structures includes the highest percentage of Americans?

the working class

True or False: Edward and Jacob both treat women as if they are property.

true

What is Human Development and Family Science?

An interdisciplinary area of study that focuses on families in context.

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 groups is LEAST likely to intermarry with those of other races or ethnicities?

white women