Test 5: Chapters 13 & 14
An older woman retires and completely changes her life. She is no longer raising children or working. However, she joins YWCA to swim everyday. She serves on the friends of the library board. She is part of a neighborhood group that plays Bunco on Saturday nights. Her situation most closely illustrates the _____ theory.
Activity.
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act counteracts which theory?
Age stratification.
Which factor most increases the risk of an elderly person suffering mistreatment?
Being frail to the point of dependency on care.
Who wrote the book on Death and Dying, outlining the 5 stages of grief?
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
What is the primary driver of modernization theory?
Industrialization.
Which of the following is a criticism of the family life cycle model?
It is too narrowly focused on a sequence of stages.
In most countries, elderly women ______ than elderly men.
Live a few years longer.
Which assertion about aging in men would be made by a sociologist following the functionalist perspective?
Men who remain active after retirement play a supportive community roles.
Which of the following is true to intimate partner violence (IPV)?
Nearly half of instances of IPV involve drugs or alcohol.
Which type of child abuse is most prevalent in the United States?
Neglect.
In Erik Erikson's development stages of life, with which challenge must older people struggle?
Overcoming despair to achieve integrity.
The measure that compares the number of men to women in the population is:
Sex ratio
Which action reflects ageism?
Speaking slowly and loudly when talking to someone over age 65.
The majority of the US children live in:
Two-parent households.
According to the study cited by the U.S. Census Bureau, children who live with married parents grow up with more advantages than children who live with:
a divorced parent.
Research suggests that people generally feel that their current family is ___ than the family they grew up with.
at least as close
If elderly people suffer abuse, it is most often perpetrated by ______.
caregivers.
Veterans are two or four times more likely to _____ as people who do not serve in the military.
commit suicide.
In the US, life expenctancy rates in recent decades have ______.
continued to gradually rise.
Thanatology is the study of _____.
death and dying.
An older man retires from his job, stops golfing, and cancels his newspaper subscription. After his wife dies, he lives alone, loses touch with his children, and stops seeing old friends. His situation most closely illustrates the _______ theory.
disengagement
In general, children in ____ households benefit from divorce.
high-conflict.
Sociologists tend to define family in terms of?
how a given society sanctions the relationships of people who are connected through blood, marriage, or adoption.
The median age of first marriage has ___ in the last fifty years.
increased for both men and women.
Today in the US the poverty rate of the elderly is ____.
increasing.
America's baby boomer generation has contributed to all of the following except:
medicaid being in danger of going bankrupt.
Children of divorced parents are ___ to divorce in their own marriage than children of parents who stayed married.
more likely
A child who associates his line of descent with his father's side only is part of a _____ society.
patrilineal.
A woman being married to two men would be an example of:
polyandry
Couples who cohabitate before marriage are ______ couples who did not cohabitate before marriage to be married at least ten years.
slightly less likely than
Current divorce rates are:
steadily declining.
The "graying of the US refers to:
the increasing percentage of the population over 65 years old
For individual people of a certain culture, the life course is ________.
the typical sequence of events in their lives.
Same-sex couple households account for _____ percent of U.S. households.
1
What is the approximate median age of the US?
37.
