Ch12 Discovering Problems In The Family Full Test Bank

Test Bank

Chapter 12: Discovering Problems in the Family

Multiple Choice

1. The ______ of family dictates that some people have enforceable obligations and rights to others.

a. personal definition

b. official definition

c. private view

d. public view

Learning Objective: 12.1: How do sociologists define family?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Personal Definitions Versus Official/Legal Definitions

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Two or more people related by birth, adoption, or marriage is the official definition of a family provided by ______.

a. the APA

b. the U.S. Census Bureau

c. Time Magazine

d. sociologists

Learning Objective: 12.1: How do sociologists define family?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Personal Definitions Versus Official/Legal Definitions

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. How does the U.S. Census Bureau’s definition of family differ from the official definition of family?

a. The official definition includes those we deem family through emotional bonds while the U.S. Census Bureau does not.

b. The official definition includes “shared household” into its definition for multigenerational families while the U.S. Census Bureau does not.

c. The U.S. Census Bureau includes “shared household” into its definition in order to ensure it only counts each individual once.

d. The U.S. Census Bureau includes those we deem as family through emotional bonds while the official definition does not.

Learning Objective: 12.1: How do sociologists define family?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Personal Definitions Versus Official/Legal Definitions

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Janet and Kumar are having a holiday gathering at their house. They want it to be a small family event. They invited both of their parents and siblings. They also included their closest friends whom were in their wedding party. Janet and Kumar are using the ______ definition of family.

a. polygynous

b. legal

c. official

d. personal

Learning Objective: 12.1: How do sociologists define family?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Personal Definitions Versus Official/Legal Definitions

Difficulty Level: Hard

5. Howard and Louise recently adopted their two foster children. One of the children, Polly, says “Now we are a real family” to her parents. Polly is using the ______ definition of family.

a. official

b. polygynous

c. personal

d. deinstitutionalized

Learning Objective: 12.1: How do sociologists define family?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Personal Definitions Versus Official/Legal Definitions

Difficulty Level: Hard

6. Miguel and Olive recently moved Miguel’s elderly mother into their house. Their household is now multigenerational as it also includes their two sons. The U.S. Census considers them to be one family due to the ______.

a. boomerang children

b. shared household

c. motherhood penalty

d. collateral consequences

Learning Objective: 12.1: How do sociologists define family?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Personal Definitions Versus Official/Legal Definitions

Difficulty Level: Hard

7. Tamara is writing a paper in her history class about the American family. In the paper, she discusses how families care for older people and raise children. Her research also tackles the important question of how the family has changed over time. Tamara has decided to look at the family from a ______.

a. personal definition

b. private view

c. public view

d. shared household definition

Learning Objective: 12.1: How do sociologists define family?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Private Versus Public Views of Families

Difficulty Level: Hard

8. Which concept describes the people who comprise a family and their relationships to one another?

a. shared household

b. polygynous families

c. accordion families

d. family structure

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Family Structure and the Construction of the “Ideal” Family

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. When intimate partners share a similar socioeconomic status, it is called ______.

a. homogamy

b. polygynous

c. deinstitutionalization

d. cohabitation

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Heterosexual Marriage

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Which term refers to an ideology that maintains that mothers should be child centered and very involved in their children’s lives?

a. motherhood penalty

b. intensive mothering

c. boomerang children

d. accordion families

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Social Construction of “Bad Mothers”

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. A researcher interested in the marriage rates in the African American community would also focus on ______.

a. shotgun marriages

b. multigenerational families

c. mass incarceration

d. the fatherhood premium

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Heterosexual Marriage

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. What is the relationship between socioeconomic status and cohabitation?

a. Higher socioeconomic status cohabitation results in marriage while lower socioeconomic status results in serial cohabitation.

b. Socioeconomic status has no bearing on why people decide to cohabitate.

c. Higher socioeconomic status individuals’ cohabitate due to financial necessity while lower socioeconomic status individuals’ cohabitate out of a desire to spend more time together.

d. Higher socioeconomic status individuals’ cohabitate out of a desire to spend more time together while lower socioeconomic status individuals’ cohabitate due to financial necessity.

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Cohabitation

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. How are mothers with disabilities viewed in society?

a. Mothers with disabilities face more parental scrutiny within the medical and social services communities.

b. Mothers with disabilities are treated the same as all mothers within the medical and social services communities.

c. Motherhood depends on women actively adhering to the intensive motherhood ideology with or without disabilities.

d. Motherhood for women with disabilities has become deinstitutionalized and has gained a homogamous relationship.

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Construction of “Bad Mothers”

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Danielle has dated some financially successful men but she has yet to find that person who she would consider her “soul mate.” Danielle’s grandmother tells her how her great grandparents were not so consumed with finding a “soul mate” but rather finding a partner who was a good match and economically sound. Keisha’s view of marriage is most likely due to ______.

a. polygynous families

b. a cultural shift

c. inequality

d. collateral consequences

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Cultural Shifts in Marital Expectations

Difficulty Level: Hard

15. Jamal is giving a report on his family for school. He tells the class that he lives with his mother and father, two siblings, his aunt, and his grandfather. Jamal most likely has a ______ family.

a. polygynous

b. blended

c. multigenerational

d. cohabitating

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Family Structure and the Construction of the “Ideal” Family

Difficulty Level: Hard

16. Lucy just graduated from college. She is in the process of securing a full time job in her field. She and her partner decided to delay marriage and children until they are both financially secure and have established themselves in their respective careers. Lucy is illustrating one of the root causes of the ______.

a. fatherhood premium

b. marriage

c. divorce rate

d. marriage decline

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Heterosexual Marriage

Difficulty Level: Hard

17. Chloe has just graduated college with her engineering degree. She has also just received a job offer from a top company in the aerospace field. She and her partner, also an engineer, have decided to get married. This couple illustrates ______.

a. homogamy

b. deinstitutionization

c. shotgun marriage

d. boomerang children

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Heterosexual Marriage

Difficulty Level: Hard

18. Ariel and Ryan just graduated college. They are both in the process of establishing themselves in their careers. They each have some student loans that they want to pay off. They have decided that they want to spend more time together, but they are not yet where they each want to be financially or in their careers. Ariel and Ryan will most likely ______.

a. become boomerang children

b. cohabitate

c. marry

d. divorce

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Cohabitation

Difficulty Level: Hard

19. Moesha is a new mother. She has been reading many books and articles on parenting. She has decided that she wants to be a very child centered parent providing many enriching activities for her child. She also makes a promise to her child that she will try to be emotionally accessible to him always. Moesha is trying to live up to the standards of ______.

a. the motherhood penalty

b. collateral consequences

c. intensive mothering

d. accordion families

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Social Construction of “Bad Mothers”

Difficulty Level: Hard

20. Which is the most common form of child maltreatment?

a. neglect

b. physical violence

c. emotional harm

d. sexual abuse

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Child Maltreatment

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. Which type of violence takes place among those currently or formerly in a romantic relationship?

a. domestic violence

b. intimate partner violence

c. situational couple violence

d. elder violence

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Intimate Partner Violence and Coercion

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. ______ refers to people tending to the needs of their children and elderly parents at the same time.

a. Boomerang children

b. Motherhood penalty

c. Sandwich generation

d. Accordion families

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Paid Work and Caregiving

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. A researcher interested in studying violence where an individual attempts to control through escalating coercion and violence over time would focus on ______.

a. intimate partner violence

b. domestic violence

c. situational couple violence

d. intimate terrorism

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Intimate Partner Violence and Coercion

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. How do the definitions of child abuse and child neglect differ?

a. While they are under the same definition, child abuse is an action while neglect is inaction.

b. While they are under the same definition, child abuse is inaction while neglect is an action.

c. Child neglect is not viewed as harmful or part of the definition of child abuse.

d. Child abuse contains only inactions, while child neglect deals primary with actions.

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Child Maltreatment

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. How does intimate partner violence differ from domestic violence?

a. Intimate partner violence does not cover violence between romantic partners who do not live together.

b. Domestic violence does not cover violence between romantic partners who do not live together.

c. Intimate partner violence only covers stalking while domestic violence deals with physical abuse.

d. Domestic violence only covers violence between people who were previously romantic with one another.

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Intimate Partner Violence and Coercion

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. Kate and Jack recently separated. Unfortunately, Jack still will not leave Kate alone. He has been following her, calling her, and threatening to harm himself if they do not get back together. Jack’s behavior is an example of ______.

a. collateral consequences

b. situational couple violence

c. intimate partner violence

d. domestic violence

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Intimate Partner Violence and Coercion

Difficulty Level: Hard

27. Carter and Julia have been married for over 10 years. During most of that time, Carter abused Julia emotionally and psychologically. She went to the emergency numerous times for broken bones and concussions. Julia is most likely a victim of ______.

a. domestic violence

b. intimate partner violence

c. situational couple violence

d. intimate terrorism

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Intimate Partner Violence and Coercion

Difficulty Level: Hard

28. James and his partner separated some time ago. Since then, James has found himself being stalked and coerced into seeing his former partner with threats of suicide. No matter what James does, the texts, phone calls, threats, and stalking never seems to stop. James knows that this is a form of intimate partner violence and that he may be more at risk for ______ if this does not stop.

a. extreme poverty

b. psychological difficulties

c. neglect

d. situation couple violence

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Intimate Partner Violence and Coercion

Difficulty Level: Hard

29. Susan is nearing the end of her life and lives in a nursing facility for older people. Her family comes to visit often. She enjoys this for the most part. Sometimes when her son comes to visit, he brings legal paperwork for her to sign. She is not sure why she is signing these documents as she had her will draw up many years ago. Her son is actually having her co-sign loans so that he can get money from the bank, and is using her savings as collateral. This can be considered a form of ______.

a. extreme poverty

b. domestic violence

c. elder abuse

d. intimate terrorism

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Elder Abuse

Difficulty Level: Hard

30. Kim has two children still at home, ages 12 and 15. Her oldest is away in college. She has also recently assumed guardianship and care of her 75-year-old father. While she is doing her best to care for everyone and still maintain her own career, she finds it overwhelming sometimes. Kim is part of the ______.

a. polygynous family

b. fatherhood premium

c. blended family

d. sandwich generation

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Paid Work and Caregiving

Difficulty Level: Hard

31. Emma and Jamal are finding it hard to manage their careers and the demands of their two small children. They have good childcare, but still feel that they should be able to care for their children more in person. They have discussed some options, including different jobs, flexible times, and leaves of absence, but still find themselves amidst the ______.

a. work-family conflict

b. collateral consequences

c. deinstitutionalization

d. polygynous families

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Paid Work and Caregiving

Difficulty Level: Hard

32. Among the homeless population, over ______ are families.

a. one-eighth

b. one-quarter

c. one-third

d. one-half

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Poverty’s Effects on Families

Difficulty Level: Easy

33. Adult children moving back in with their parents are known as ______.

a. the sandwich generation

b. boomerang children

c. collateral consequences

d. polygynous families

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Debt and Families

Difficulty Level: Easy

34. A researcher interested in the collateral consequences of mass incarceration would most likely focus on ______.

a. gray divorce

b. domestic violence

c. the motherhood penalty

d. the families

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Mass Incarceration’s Effects on Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

35. How is poverty related to education?

a. Those who live in poverty are restricted as to where they live which impacts educational opportunities.

b. Those who live in poverty are restricted as to where they live which increases their educational opportunities.

c. Poverty has no relationship to education or educational opportunities for students.

d. Educational opportunities are greater for those who live in poverty providing a better education.

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Poverty’s Effects on Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

36. Mike is 10 years old. His family is evicted from their apartment due to nonpayment. His mother says that they are going to stay with his aunt until they can find another place to live. Mike knows that the last time this happened; they had to stay in the homeless shelter for a week. Due to this housing instability, Mike has an increased risk of ______.

a. cohabitating

b. dropping out of school

c. becoming a boomerang child

d. intimate terrorism

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Poverty’s Effects on Families

Difficulty Level: Hard

37. At 23 years, Miguel has substantial student loan debt. He has found a job in his field and has begun to make payments on this debt. He would like to pay this off as soon as possible, so he has decided to move back in with his parents until the debt is paid off. Miguel is an example of a ______.

a. homogamous child

b. shared household

c. boomerang child

d. shotgun cohabitation

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Debt and Families

Difficulty Level: Hard

38. In order to get through college, Lauren not only took out student loans but lived on her credit cards many months. She has amassed a large amount of debt that she is having a hard time paying off while still maintaining her current expenses. Her parents suggest that she come live with them just until she can get her debt under control. This is an example of a/an ______.

a. polygynous family

b. multigenerational family

c. blended family

d. accordion family

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Debt and Families

Difficulty Level: Hard

39. Judy lives in a low-income neighborhood that the police patrol heavily. Most of her male friends from childhood are currently in prison or previously served time. She has a good job and helps to take care of her mother. She has had a difficult time finding a partner to share her life with due to the concentrated incarceration which has created a ______.

a. male-shortage

b. male-abundance

c. fatherhood premium

d. motherhood penalty

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Mass Incarceration’s Effects on Families

Difficulty Level: Hard

40. Researchers focusing on correcting the problem of housing instability would focus on the results of ______.

a. the U.S. Census Bureau

b. Moving to Opportunity

c. homogamy

d. the “motherhood penalty”

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Poverty’s Effects on Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. Family is defined through legalities.

Learning Objective: 12.1: How do sociologists define family?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Personal Definitions Versus Official/Legal Definitions

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. People who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption residing together are considered family by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Learning Objective: 12.1: How do sociologists define family?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Personal Definitions Versus Official/Legal Definitions

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. In evaluating the state of families, we adopt a private view of the family.

Learning Objective: 12.1: How do sociologists define family?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Private Versus Public Views of Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. The public view of family approaches the family as a social institution.

Learning Objective: 12.1: How do sociologists define family?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Private Versus Public Views of Families

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. The family takes on all of its societal responsibilities within itself.

Learning Objective: 12.1: How do sociologists define family?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Private Versus Public Views of Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. A family can be the setting for social problems.

Learning Objective: 12.1: How do sociologists define family?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Three Ways to Think About Social Problems as They Pertain to Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Poverty, as a social problem, does not have an effect on individual families.

Learning Objective: 12.1: How do sociologists define family?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Three Ways to Think About Social Problems as They Pertain to Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. The historical moment can determine what society sees as desirable and undesirable in families.

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Construction of Families as Problems

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Relationships built on necessity and obligations are precarious at best.

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cultural Shifts in Marital Expectations

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. People who comprise a family and their relationships to one another is the family structure.

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Family Structure and the Construction of the “Ideal” Family

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Polygynous families are the dominant ideal family.

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Family Structure and the Construction of the “Ideal” Family

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Contemporary families can include single-parent families and blended families among others.

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Family Structure and the Construction of the “Ideal” Family

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. The marriage decline has been observed as a pattern in the industrialized world.

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Heterosexual Marriage

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. The U.S. divorce rate is the highest it has been in decades.

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Divorce

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. Mothers who live in poverty are more likely to be deemed “bad mothers.”

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Social Construction of “Bad Mothers”

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Child marriage is most often found in developing countries.

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Child Marriage

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Intimate partners are the perpetrators of family violence.

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Family Violence

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Poor parental communication skills heighten the risk of child maltreatment.

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Child Maltreatment

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Neglect is the most common form of child maltreatment.

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Child Maltreatment

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Intimate partner violence is the more specific term for physical abuse between partners.

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Intimate Partner Violence and Coercion

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. The physical, emotional, or sexual maltreatment of older adults is referred to as elder abuse.

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Elder Abuse

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. Taking care of one’s children is considered household labor.

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Paid Work and Caregiving

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Flexibility in hours and sick leave are two examples of ways that employers attempt to resolve the work-family conflict.

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Paid Work and Caregiving

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. Poverty has an effect on how parents discipline their children.

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Poverty’s Effects on Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. About one-third of the homeless population is families in the United States.

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Poverty’s Effects on Families

Difficulty Level: Easy

26. Adult children who move back in with their parents are known as the “sandwich generation.”

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Debt and Families

Difficulty Level: Easy

27. People with high levels of debt are more likely to put off having children.

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Debt and Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

28. Boomerang children are adult children who move back in with their parents for economic reasons.

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Debt and Families

Difficulty Level: Easy

29. A child whose parent(s) are incarcerated has a decreased risk of mental and behavior problems.

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Mass Incarceration’s Effects on Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

30. Family life can be altered in areas of concentrated incarceration.

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Mass Incarceration’s Effects on Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

Short Answer

1. How do personal and official definitions of family differ?

Learning Objective: 12.1: How do sociologists define family?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Personal Definitions Versus Official/Legal Definitions

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. How do the views of families differ in personal and public views?

Learning Objective: 12.1: How do sociologists define family?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Private Versus Public Views of Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. How does the view of marriage differ historically to the present?

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Cultural Shifts in Marital Expectations

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. How is income related to cohabitation?

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Cohabitation

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. How does the term domestic violence differ from intimate partner violence?

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Intimate Partner Violence and Coercion

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. How is the word violence categorized in intimate partner violence?

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Intimate Partner Violence and Coercion

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. How would you categorize a family member who is at risk for committing elder abuse?

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Elder Abuse

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. How is poverty related to families?

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Poverty’s Effects on Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. How is housing instability related to children’s health?

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Poverty’s Effects on Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. How is debt related to the boomerang generation?

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Debt and Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. How has the social institution of family changed in relationship to other social institutions?

Learning Objective: 12.1: How do sociologists define family?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Private Versus Public Views of Families

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. What evidence can you give for the marriage decline?

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Heterosexual Marriage

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Kate, a newly single parent, took a leave of absence without pay from her job to care for her new baby. Unfortunately, Kate does not have family close by to help her with finances or caretaking. Due to the lack of financial support, Kate filed for welfare benefits for the duration of her work-leave so that she can buy food and pay her bills. How might Kate be viewed by other people due to her status as a “welfare mother?”

Learning Objective: 12.2: How do our views of the family shape our understanding of social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Social Construction of “Bad Mothers”

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. Blake and Chloe have been married for 3 years; they have a 1-year-old daughter. Both are successful engineers at different companies. When Chloe leaves work, she picks up her daughter from daycare. After that, she still has dinner to prepare, laundry to do, and the baby to care for. Since the baby was born Blake helps more around the house with the daily chores, but the majority still falls to Chloe. Explain how this example illustrates the gendered division of work as it relates to family and parenthood.

Learning Objective: 12.3: What patterns in family structure are typically treated as social problems?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Paid Work and Caregiving

Difficulty Level: Hard

5. What is the relationship between mass incarceration and family life?

Learning Objective: 12.4: What social problems within the broader society affect families?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Mass Incarceration’s Effects on Families

Difficulty Level: Medium