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Chapter 11: Families and Society
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. In the United States, what are the main reasons people decide to get married?
a. financial reasons and attraction
b. love and companionship
c. attraction and love
d. peer pressure and love
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Assortative Mating and Rising Inequality in the United States
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. When two or more people live together and have a legally recognized relationship, such as by blood, this is an example of which of the following?
a. adoption
b. marriage
c. family
d. household
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Which of the following is a culturally normative, often legally defined relationship, usually between two individuals, that provides a framework for economic cooperation, emotional intimacy, and sexual relations?
a. monogamy
b. marriage
c. family
d. friendship
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. In feudal Europe and Asia, which of the following marriage patterns was most common?
a. open marriages
b. polygyny
c. polyandry
d. monogamy
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. In preindustrial societies, which of the following marriage patterns was most common?
a. open marriages
b. polygyny
c. polyandry
d. monogamy
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. In postindustrial societies, serial monogamy describes which of the following?
a. marriage to more than one person
b. divorce and remarriage
c. extramarital affairs
d. marriage to just one person
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. Which of the following is the term for when a person has one spouse at a time?
a. polyandry
b. monogamy
c. polygamy
d. polygyny
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Which of the following is a form of marriage in which women can have multiple husbands?
a. polygyny
b. polygamy
c. polyandry
d. monogamy
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. Sandra, a woman, is married to Tim and Brian, both men. Which of the following best describes their relationship?
a. common law
b. polyandrous
c. polygynous
d. serial monogamous
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Hard
10. Javon, a man, is married to Janelle and Robyn, both women. Which of the following describes their relationship?
a. common law
b. polyandrous
c. polygynous
d. serial monogamous
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Hard
11. Polygyny and polyandry are both categorized as which type of relationship?
a. monogamy
b. polygamy
c. endogamy
d. serial monogamy
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Maddy, a woman, is married to Deja, who is nonbinary. Their marriage is an example of which of the following?
a. monogamy
b. polyandry
c. polygamy
d. polygyny
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Hard
13. William and Tom, two men, have been married for 2 years and both come from wealthy families. Their class and their marriage are an example of ______.
a. polyandry
b. polygamy
c. miscegeny
d. endogamy
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Hard
14. Sam is a Black man, and Andrea is a White woman. Their marriage would have been illegal prior to 1967 due to which of the following?
a. anti-miscegenation laws
b. the Edmunds Act
c. the Defense of Marriage Act
d. Loving v. Virginia
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Hard
15. Prior to 1967, miscegenation was considered which of the following?
a. endogamous
b. polygamy
c. a felony
d. serial monogamy
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Easy
16. According to the text, which group is more likely to marry outside of their race?
a. Black Americans
b. White Americans
c. Asian Americans
d. American Indians
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Easy
17. Anti-miscegenation laws were aimed at promoting which type of marriage?
a. endogamous
b. heterosexual
c. monogamous
d. polygamous
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. Which of the following groups is most likely to marry endogamously?
a. Asian Americans
b. Hispanics
c. Black Americans
d. White Americans
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. Families characterized by parents living with their biological children and apart from other kin are referred to as which type of families?
a. endogamous families
b. biological families
c. nuclear families
d. extended families
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Families and the Work of Raising Children
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. Zara lives with her parents and her grandparents. This is an example of which type of family?
a. nuclear family
b. extended family
c. kinfolk family
d. traditional family
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Families and the Work of Raising Children
Difficulty Level: Hard
21. Arman lives at home with his brother, sister, mother, and father. This is an example of which type of family?
a. extended family
b. nuclear family
c. endogamous family
d. kinfolk family
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Families and the Work of Raising Children
Difficulty Level: Hard
22. In which of the following areas are extended families most common?
a. Northern Europe
b. Western Europe
c. Central America
d. Canada
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Families and the Work of Raising Children
Difficulty Level: Easy
23. In which of the following areas are nuclear families most common?
a. Central America
b. South America
c. Southern Europe
d. Western Europe
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Families and the Work of Raising Children
Difficulty Level: Easy
24. According to Talcott Parsons, which type of roles were created by the “factory of personalities”?
a. unequal roles
b. egalitarian roles
c. complementary roles
d. dysfunctional roles
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Functionalist Perspective
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. Talcott Parsons posited that women are socialized into which type of roles as mothers and wives?
a. privileged roles
b. dominant roles
c. instrumental roles
d. expressive roles
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Functionalist Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
26. Talcott Parsons posited that men are socialized into which type of roles in the public sphere?
a. expressive roles
b. instrumental roles
c. submissive roles
d. extended roles
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Functionalist Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
27. Personality stabilization is particularly important in which type of family?
a. nuclear
b. extended
c. traditional
d. tribal
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Functionalist Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
28. In the 1950s, what was one of Talcott Parsons’ concerns about the family?
a. that women would fail to achieve greater economic independence
b. that the disruption of traditional roles would cause dysfunctions for the family and society
c. that unhappy spouses would be stuck in dysfunctional marriages due to restrictive divorce laws
d. that traditional marriage would continue to perpetuate gender inequality
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Functionalist Perspective
Difficulty Level: Medium
29. What is a major criticism of the functionalist perspective of families and marriage?
a. It ignores the power differentials in a relationship where one party is economically dependent on the other.
b. It fails to acknowledge the role of socialization in family and marriage.
c. It underemphasizes the economic, social, and cultural functions of the family.
d. It focuses too much on family dysfunctions.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Functionalist Perspective
Difficulty Level: Medium
30. The phenomenon of designating different spheres of activity to women and men is referred to as which of the following?
a. sexual division of labor
b. gender roles
c. personality stabilization
d. cohabitation
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Feminist Approach: A Conflict Perspective... and Beyond
Difficulty Level: Easy
31. Women being relegated to homemaking roles while men obtain wealth, status, and independence is an example of which phenomenon?
a. cohabitation
b. personality stabilization
c. common-law marriage
d. sexual division of labor
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Feminist Approach: A Conflict Perspective... and Beyond
Difficulty Level: Hard
32. Which of the following is a feminist critique of marriage?
a. It gives men privileged access to the rewards of capitalism.
b. It ensures women are taken care of and protected.
c. Traditional gender roles promote a stable economy.
d. It provides purpose and meaning for women’s lives.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Feminist Approach: A Conflict Perspective... and Beyond
Difficulty Level: Medium
33. Which of the following is characteristic of Jessie Bernard’s concept of his-and-her marriages?
a. Women are expected to define themselves as burdened and constrained.
b. Marriage allocates social roles in ways that liberate men and subjugate women.
c. Husband and wife experience similar marriages.
d. Men are expected to define themselves as fulfilled by marriage.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Feminist Approach: A Conflict Perspective... and Beyond
Difficulty Level: Medium
34. Which of the following is a characteristic of “her marriage” according to Bernard?
a. Women may define themselves as burdened and constrained.
b. Women may experience authority, independence, and a right to the sexual, domestic, and emotional support of their husbands.
c. Women may seek to define themselves through their achievement of marriage.
d. Women may free themselves from dependence and subjugation through marriage.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Feminist Approach: A Conflict Perspective... and Beyond
Difficulty Level: Medium
35. Which of the following is characteristic of “his marriage” according to Bernard?
a. Men may seek to define themselves through their achievement of marriage.
b. Men may experience dependence and subjugation.
c. Men may seek to define themselves through their achievement of supporting a large family.
d. Men may seek to define themselves as burdened and constrained.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Feminist Approach: A Conflict Perspective... and Beyond
Difficulty Level: Medium
36. Bernard’s analysis showed that which of the following people scored the highest on stress indicators?
a. unmarried women and unmarried men
b. married women and married men
c. unmarried women and married men
d. married women and unmarried men
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Feminist Approach: A Conflict Perspective... and Beyond
Difficulty Level: Medium
37. According to a major study of American adults, what benefit do men with spouses enjoy in comparison to men without spouses?
a. better health insurance
b. better job prospects
c. living longer
d. less student debt
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Feminist Approach: A Conflict Perspective... and Beyond
Difficulty Level: Easy
38. Contrary to Bernard’s analysis of his-and-her marriages, some studies show that women who are married are actually less likely to ______ compared to women who are not married.
a. be employed
b. live longer
c. have children
d. experience depression
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Feminist Approach: A Conflict Perspective... and Beyond
Difficulty Level: Medium
39. Bernard’s work gives us the opportunity to look at marriage as what type of institution?
a. gendered
b. failed
c. egalitarian
d. intersectional
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Feminist Approach: A Conflict Perspective... and Beyond
Difficulty Level: Medium
40. What is a criticism of the feminist perspective and other conflict-oriented perspectives of marriage and family?
a. It ignores the power differentials in a relationship where one party is economically dependent on the other.
b. It may overlook the valuable functions of socializing and organizing that families have long performed.
c. It ignores family dysfunctions.
d. It may overlook the ways in which gender fundamentally affects the experience of marriage.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Feminist Approach: A Conflict Perspective... and Beyond
Difficulty Level: Medium
41. According to Nancy Chodorow, which of the following is true of mothering?
a. Biology can fully explain mothering.
b. Biology cannot fully explain mothering, because fathers or other kin can perform key mothering functions as well.
c. Biology cannot fully explain mothering, because some mothers are not good at being mothers.
d. Socialization can fully explain mothering.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Psychodynamic Feminist Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
42. According to Nancy Chodorow, which of the following is true of mothers and daughters?
a. Mothers have a stronger initial bond with daughters.
b. After infancy, mothers push daughters away emotionally.
c. Through early socialization, daughters come to identify more fully with their mothers than their fathers.
d. The feminine personalities of daughters draw more from societal modes of femininity than from their mothers.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Psychodynamic Feminist Perspective
Difficulty Level: Medium
43. According to Nancy Chodorow, masculinity may develop, in part, as a negation and marginalization of qualities associated with ______.
a. masculinity
b. femininity
c. androgyny
d. endogamy
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Feminist Approach: A Conflict Perspective... and Beyond
Difficulty Level: Medium
44. According to Nancy Chodorow, women are socialized to be ______, seeking close bonds and defining themselves through their connections with other people.
a. independent
b. relational
c. privileged
d. submissive
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Feminist Approach: A Conflict Perspective... and Beyond
Difficulty Level: Easy
45. According to Nancy Chodorow, men define themselves as ______ and have a harder time forming close bonds.
a. emotional
b. irrational
c. relational
d. autonomous
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Feminist Approach: A Conflict Perspective... and Beyond
Difficulty Level: Medium
46. According to historian Stephanie Coontz, which of the following is the nuclear family?
a. a product of the preindustrial era
b. a product of the passage of child labor laws
c. a product of the Great Depression
d. a fairly recent phenomenon
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: U.S. Families Yesterday and Today
Difficulty Level: Easy
47. Which of the following was true of the post–World War II era in the United States?
a. The extended family became more common.
b. Minorities finally gained full access to the government’s subsidized mortgages.
c. The economic conditions of many Black families and their neighborhoods improved.
d. Jobs followed White workers to the suburbs.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: U.S. Families Yesterday and Today
Difficulty Level: Medium
48. Which of the following is true of marriage in the United States?
a. On average, women are older than men at their first marriage.
b. People are choosing to get married earlier in life.
c. The U.S. marriage rate exceeds that of most other modern societies.
d. Marriage is quickly becoming an obsolete institution.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Difficulty Level: Easy
49. Which of the following contributed to the growth of single-person households?
a. the rising median age of first marriage
b. the declining median age of first marriage
c. the rising marriage rate
d. the decreasing median income
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Difficulty Level: Medium
50. Which statement about the median age at first marriage is true?
a. Women tend to marry younger men.
b. Men are more likely to be married just out of high school.
c. The median age is higher for men than it is for women.
d. The median age for women is over 30.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Difficulty Level: Medium
51. There has been a steep rise in the median age at first marriage. What does this indicate?
a. Many people are marrying much older partners.
b. Many people do not want to get married at all.
c. Many people are not marrying until their 30s or later.
d. Many people are choosing to cohabit instead of marry.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Difficulty Level: Medium
52. Which of the following is true regarding attitudes about marriage among the millennial generation?
a. There is an increasing sense that marriage is a necessary part of the adult life course.
b. They tend to value marriage over parenthood.
c. Cohabitation is not generally seen as a viable alternative to marriage.
d. Most say that they would like to get married.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Difficulty Level: Medium
53. Living together as a couple without the formal legal paperwork of marriage is referred to as which of the following?
a. endogamy
b. closed monogamy
c. cohabitation
d. open monogamy
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families..
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Difficulty Level: Easy
54. Which of the following is true of cohabitation?
a. It has declined in popularity in recent decades.
b. It is illegal in some conservative states.
c. More older adults are choosing to cohabitate.
d. An estimated three quarters of never-married young adults cohabitate.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Difficulty Level: Easy
55. Which of the following is true of economic concerns that have contributed to declining marriage rates in the United States?
a. Young adults have low financial literacy, which is affecting their willingness or ability to get married
b. Older adults are experiencing age discrimination in the workplace, which is affecting their willingness or ability to get married.
c. All types of debt have risen, which is affecting the willingness or ability of older adults to get married.
d. Students have higher student debt, which is affecting the willingness or ability of young adults to get married.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Difficulty Level: Medium
56. What is the main reason many adults indicate for not being married?
a. They are not ready to make that kind of emotional commitment.
b. They are not sure their partner is the right person for them.
c. They are not far enough along in their job or career.
d. They are not ready financially.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Difficulty Level: Medium
57. Which of the following best characterizes the Defense of Marriage Act?
a. It was intended to legalize common-law relationships.
b. It forced states to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.
c. It defined marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.
d. Its language was used by advocates of the LGTBQ+ community to also include transgender marriages.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Difficulty Level: Medium
58. Which decision asserts that states must allow same-sex couples to marry and that they must recognize same-sex marriages from other states?
a. Loving v. Virginia
b. The Defense of Marriage Act
c. Obergefell v. Hodges
d. Class v. United States
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Difficulty Level: Easy
59. Which of the following is true of divorce in the United States?
a. The United States is presently experiencing the highest divorce rates in its history.
b. After rising in the 1960s and 1970s, the rate of divorce has leveled off.
c. The United States has one of the lowest divorce rates in the world.
d. The divorce rate for second and later marriages is lower than for first marriages.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Difficulty Level: Medium
60. Historian Stephanie Koontz argues that divorce is driven in part by our powerful attachment to the belief that marriage is ______.
a. a sacrifice
b. an outdated practice
c. primarily an economic or social contract
d. the outcome of romantic love
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Difficulty Level: Medium
61. Which of the following is true of childcare?
a. Most of today’s stay-at-home mothers are single or cohabitating.
b. Increasing numbers of mothers are staying home to care for children.
c. Fewer fathers are assuming the primary childcare role in the home.
d. Public attitudes about men as primary caregivers are largely supportive.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Who’s Minding the Children?
Difficulty Level: Medium
62. Which of the following is true of immigrant families?
a. First-generation immigrants often have birth rates above those of the native-born U.S. population.
b. Most immigrants come to the United States for retirement purposes.
c. First-generation immigrants often have birth rates below those of the native-born U.S. population
d. Immigrants are hesitant to start families due to the high cost of living in the United States.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Immigration and Family Patterns
Difficulty Level: Easy
63. Which of the following is true regarding Native American families?
a. They typically have close family ties extending across multiple generations.
b. Many of them have left the reservations.
c. They place a higher value on the individual rather than the collective.
d. They have assimilated into the dominant culture by accepting the traditional nuclear family.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: America’s First Nations: Native American Families
Difficulty Level: Medium
64. Eighty-five percent of people who are deaf choose to marry others who share their language and culture. Their marriages can therefore be characterized as which type of marriages?
a. endogamous marriages
b. exogamous marriages
c. homogamous marriages
d. polygamous marriages
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Deaf Culture and Family Life
Difficulty Level: Hard
65. Which of the following is true of domestic violence?
a. It is about one fifth of all violent crimes in the United States.
b. It is the most common cause of death in the United States.
c. It is considered a private matter that is not punishable by law.
d. Domestic violence substantially decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Families in Crisis
Difficulty Level: Medium
66. Which of the following is characteristic of working-class or low-income child-rearing styles?
a. valuing initiative
b. teaching critical-thinking skills
c. directly nurturing development and learning
d. issuing directives rather than explanations
Learning Objective: 11.4: Explain what sociological research suggests about ways in which social class influences family formation and parenting practices.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Class and Child-Rearing
Difficulty Level: Medium
67. Which parenting style is mostly used by middle-class families?
a. natural growth
b. authoritarian
c. authoritative
d. concerted cultivation
Learning Objective: 11.4: Explain what sociological research suggests about ways in which social class influences family formation and parenting practices.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Class and Child-Rearing
Difficulty Level: Medium
68. ______ of individuals in the U.S. labor force do not hold a 4-year degree.
a. About a quarter
b. Just under half
c. The vast majority
d. More than half
Learning Objective: 11.5: Understand the relationship between globalization and family life, particularly for U.S. families and women from less-developed countries.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Globalization and Families
Difficulty Level: Easy
69. Which of the following represents an outcome of globalization?
a. Many working-class families saw their incomes improve.
b. Women in many working-class families decided to give up their jobs.
c. Globalization had a detrimental impact on wealthy families.
d. Household incomes at the bottom of the economic spectrum have declined.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Understand the relationship between globalization and family life, particularly for U.S. families and women from less-developed countries.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Globalization and Families
Difficulty Level: Medium
70. Who best represents the concept of the “global woman”?
a. Darlene travels the world in a converted school bus while making money by working as a computer engineer.
b. Aditi lives and works in India and visits her relatives in the United States as much as possible.
c. Ashanti enjoys going on cruises because she likes the exposure to different cultures.
d. Consuela has left her family in Honduras to become a nanny in New York City.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Understand the relationship between globalization and family life, particularly for U.S. families and women from less-developed countries.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: International Families and the Global Woman
Difficulty Level: Hard
True/False
1. Assortative mating means that people who are similar in education or income tend to marry each other.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Assortative Mating and Rising Inequality in the United States
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Most marriages in the United States are endogamous marriages.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Anti-miscegenation laws were ruled unconstitutional in the United States in 1967.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. In most preindustrial cultures, polyandry was far more common than polygyny.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Talcott Parsons argued that distinct sex roles clarified the social status of the family by being derived from the male’s social position.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Functionalist Perspective
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Nancy Chodorow drew from Freud’s object relations perspective.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Psychodynamic Feminist Perspective
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. The rise in median age for marriage means that most people are getting married for the first time in their 40s.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Marriage and Divorce in the United States.
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Many immigrant families encourage their children to marry outside of their race.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Immigration and Family Patterns
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Middleclass families have a strong commitment to constructive and active child-rearing.
Learning Objective: 11.4: Explain what sociological research suggests about ways in which social class influences family formation and parenting practices.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Family Life in the Middle Class
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. International families and transnational families embody the same characteristics.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Understand the relationship between globalization and family life, particularly for U.S. families and women from less-developed countries.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: International Families and the Global Woman
Difficulty Level: Medium
Short Answer
1. Use the sociological imagination to define and explain the phenomenon of serial monogamy in the United States.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Discuss and explain why most marriages tend to be endogamous.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: How Do Sociologists Study the Family?
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Compare and contrast the characteristics of nuclear versus extended families and provide one example of each.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Families and the Work of Raising Children
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Summarize the characteristics of his-and-her marriages. Include a discussion of the contradictions men and women often face in marriage and how this may contribute to social inequality.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Feminist Approach: A Conflict Perspective... and Beyond
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Provide characteristics of Native American families and contrast those with the dominant culture in the United States.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: America’s First Nations: Native American Families
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Identify recent trends in student loan debt. Discuss how rising levels of student loan debt are related to changes in the family.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Explain the reasons for the growth of single-person households in the United States.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Discuss how child-rearing contributes to the reproduction of class status.
Learning Objective: 11.4: Explain what sociological research suggests about ways in which social class influences family formation and parenting practices.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Class and Child-Rearing
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Distinguish between international families and families that embody transnationalism.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Understand the relationship between globalization and family life, particularly for U.S. families and women from less-developed countries
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: International Families and the Global Woman
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Briefly discuss the push and pull factors of the global woman.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Understand the relationship between globalization and family life, particularly for U.S. families and women from less-developed countries
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: International Families and the Global Woman
Difficulty Level: Medium
Essay
1. Apply a conflict-oriented and/or feminist perspective to the nuclear family. Discuss why the American idealization of the nuclear family may be problematic.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain key concepts sociologists use to study families.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Families and the Work of Raising Children
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Sociologist Nancy Chodorow asked the question, “Why do women mother?” Describe the process by which women choose to “mother” and men choose to “not mother,” according to Chodorow.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Feminist Approach: A Conflict Perspective... and Beyond
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Explain Talcott Parsons’ theory about sex roles in the American kinship system. Consider the extent to which his theory holds true today. Include a brief discussion of how it has been critiqued.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Functionalist Perspective
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Unmarried women and married men score lowest on stress indicators, while married women and unmarried men score highest. Apply a sociological lens to explain these differences.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Apply theoretical perspectives to the study of marriage and the family.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Feminist Approach: A Conflict Perspective... and Beyond
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Describe deaf culture in the United States and highlight two challenges that deaf families face.
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Deaf Culture and Family Life
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Compare and contrast middle-class and working-class parenting styles. Discuss how these parenting styles socialize children for the U.S. economic system and labor market.
Learning Objective: 11.4: Explain what sociological research suggests about ways in which social class influences family formation and parenting practices.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Social Class and Child-Rearing
Difficulty Level: Hard
7. Discuss William Julius Wilson’s response to the Moynihan report.
Learning Objective: 11.4: Explain what sociological research suggests about ways in which social class influences family formation and parenting practices.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Economy, Culture, and Family Formation
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Explain the decline of marriage in the millennial generation from a sociological perspective. What are your predictions for the future?
Learning Objective: 11.3: Describe trends in family formation and family life in the United States, including marriage, divorce, childcare arrangements, and domestic violence, and describe family patterns in immigrant, Native American, and deaf families.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Marriage and Divorce in the United States
Difficulty Level: Hard
9. Who is the so-called global woman?
Learning Objective: 11.5: Understand the relationship between globalization and family life, particularly for U.S. families and women from less-developed countries.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: International Families and the Global Woman
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Gabriela was born and raised in the United States and has a large extended family in Mexico. She is close to her aunts, uncles, and countless nieces and nephews in Mexico whom she stays in touch with on a regular basis. Her friend Rosa is from Somalia and moved to the United States to be a live-in caregiver to an elderly person. Rosa misses her children and regularly sends money to them. Explain Gabriela’s and Rosa’s situations from a sociological perspective and incorporate Hochschild’s and Ehrenreich’s views in your discussion.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Understand the relationship between globalization and family life, particularly for U.S. families and women from less-developed countries.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: International Families and the Global Woman
Difficulty Level: Hard
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