HDFS 2200 Midterm (Additional Materials and Inquizitive)
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 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
According to "Is Hooking Up Bad for Young Women", a big change in adolescent and young adult sexual behavior occurred in the...
Baby Boomer Period
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
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 science 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
Which of the following is a characteristic of family life for 19th century Mexican Americans?
Family members exhibited a strong sense of obligation toward one another
According to How to Lose Your Virginity, which of the following were NOT used to check for virgins?
Fingernail test
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 labour force
True of false: We should assume that someone is being dramatic if they react to a micro aggression made against them.
Galse
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
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
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
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
What disciplines inform HDFS?
Psychology, sociology, public health, biology, economics, communications, anthropology
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 STDS have decreased
What does the "R" in the CRAAP method stand for?
Relecance
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.
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 types of families is most likely to be poor?
Single-mother families
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 relationship 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
According to the textbook, which of the following is a reason why sexual behavior is less constrained now than it was in the past?
The advent of modern birth control. Young people's living alone before marriage. Sex among older adults.
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
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?
legal, biological, and emotional
The families in "Two American Families" DID NOT experience the following:
more income following the 2008 recession
According to the CRAAP method, which of the following IS NOT one of the 5 tips to evaluate a website?
popularity
According to Is hooking up bad for young women?, hook-ups between total strangers is:
relatively uncommon
True or false: a cohort is a group of people who experience an event together at the same time.
true
Which of the following groups is LEAST likely to intermarry with those of other races or ethnicities?
white women
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 would this be?
Time use study
True or False: Edward and Jacob both treat women as if they are property
True
Which of the following describes the term matrilineal?
Wealth and power are transmitted from mothers to daughters
Which of the following is NOT an example of a micro aggression?
What's up?
Which of the following statements is NOT a common micro aggression?
Where are you from?
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 comprise a much larger proportion of the US population
Which of the following class structures includes the highest percentage of Americans?
Working class
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 US when their territory was annexed, migrants continue to move to the US in search of better jobs and better lives
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 is the most accurate example of a split-household family?
A Chinese man works on a US railroad, leaving his wife behind in China
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 into his daughter's home to help take care of his grandkids. A teenager misses several days of school to look after a sick relative.
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 10 years.
Which of the following mate selection patterns create 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 groups is the most isolated in terms of dating?
African Americans
Which of the following racial/ethnic groups has the highest poverty rate?
African Americans
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 of the saga are mal
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's with a college degree
What is the big reason, according to "Family Structure Matters", that the gender gap in the educational, behavioral, and social outcomes is growing?
Boys are often hit harder by having unmarried parents and by the absence of a father
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's wearing a dress
What state was featured in Sex 101 and has one of the most progressive sex ed laws in the country?
California
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 is NOT a reason that persons who are Black have poorer health than persons who are White?
Decreased stress hormones
In Meet the Patels, what is bio data?
Detailed personal information to be given to a prospective match and their family.
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
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
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 is may feel
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
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
What is the purpose of Google Scholar?
It sorts articles that Google considers scholarly so that anyone interested may look at the current research.
For the families in "Two American Families", what was the major issue that was the catalyst for the family issues?
Job loss
What types of websites should be utilized for research?
Journals
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 did the word homosexual first begin to appear as a way t describe someone's identity?
Late 19th century
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
For the Nuemann family, which of the following were NOT stressors that the family faced in addition to poverty?
Meddling in-laws
What is the summary of an article called?
abstract
What is HDFS?
an interdisciplinary major that focuses on families in context
According to "How to Lose Your Virginity", purity balls may be negative because...
because fathers and husbands are put in charge of women's sexuality
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
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
Avoiding to Modern Romance, the average age at marriage in the US...
has increased for both men and women
