Midterm Exam

A  Family as haven

B  Family as a stable and harmonious past

C  Family as fulfillment

D  Family as monolithic

E  Family as encumbrance

F  Family as a unified experience

A  Family as stable and harmonious in the past

B  Family as monolithic

C  Family as haven

D  Family as encumbrance

E  Family as fulfillment

A  Family as fulfillment

B  Family as stable and harmonious in the past

C  Family as monolithic

D  Family as encumbrance

E  Family as haven

F  Family as a unified experience

A  Family as haven

B  Family as fulfillment

C  Family as stable and harmonious in the past

D  Family as encumbrance

E  Family as monolithic

A  Family as encumbrance

B  Family as haven

C  Family as fulfillment

D  Family as monolithic

E  Family as stable and harmonious in the past

A  Conflict Theory

B  Symbolic Interactionism

C  Liberal Feminism

D  Functionalism

A  Functionalism

B  Social Breakdown Theory

C  Symbolic Interactionism

D  Conflict Theory

A  Symbolic Interactionism

B  Functionalism

C  Conflict Theory

A  Conflict Theory

B  Symbolic Interactionism

C  Functionalism

A  Symbolic Interactionism

B  Conflict Theory

C  Functionalism

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  people do not take media images of the family seriously.

B  relationships among family members are expected to be stable and harmonious.

C  family is the locus of competition and violence.

D  relationships among family members are no longer idealized.

A  still accounts for more than half of all jobs.

B  was associated with low wages and poor working conditions.

C  increased throughout the 20th century.

D  declined by one-fifth since 2000.

A  the disinterested elderly, who have experienced deterioration in thought processes

B  the integrated elderly, who function well, are intellectually able, and have competent egos

C  the defended elderly, who are achievement oriented and continue to work hard

D  the passive-dependent elderly, who are inactive and dependent

A  the early twentieth century.

B  the Industrial Revolution.

C  the colonial period of the United States.

D  the emergence of the household as a private sphere.

A  the work that people do to earn a living financially.

B  the “cult of true womanhood”.

C  the work of caring for family members in the home

D  the development of educational materials, such as child-rearing literature in the 19th century.

A  Class

B  Race

C  Religion

D  Gender

A  Serial monogamy

B  Polygyny

C  Group marriage

D  Monogamy

A  they compare themselves to the experiences of their father’s, in which case it seems like they do equal housework as their wives.

B  gender norms have changed and we are more likely to be in egalitarian relationships.

C  they lie about how much housework they do.

D  blue collar jobs have been outsourced and they have no other work to do.

A  an increase in job layoffs.

B  an increase in marital problems.

C  parents working longer hours

D  All of the above

A  Extended family

B  Nuclear family

C  Friend family

D  Fictive kin

A  family as house of corrections

B  family as church

C  family as school

D  all of the above were functional roles of the family

A  a focus on internal dynamics of nuclear families

B  a focus on the ways structures such as race, class, and gender shape families

C  a focus on relationships in extended families

D  None of the Above

A  Monogamy

B  Exogamy

C  Polygyny

D  Endogamy

A  middle class.

B  professional class.

C  working class.

D  elite.

A  promote the nuclear family ideal

B  engage in micro-level analysis of family interaction.

C  understand the larger social context in which families are embedded.

D  All of the above

A  family composition became smaller

B  romantic love became an expectation of marriage

C  work moved to factories

D  All of the above

A  the social agency of family members

B  the uneven change in family patterns

C  the diversity in family types

D  All of the above

A  outnumber families in which only the husband is employed two to one.

B  usually divide household labor evenly between spouses.

C  are likely to have no pre-school age children.

D  comprise less than 10% of U.S. families.

A  the family form created by industrialization.

B  a patriarchal form of family life.

C  an egalitarian family.

D  a three-generation family.

A  give up on marriage because they believe marriage will make their lives more difficult..

B  have more children than rich women.

C  thought finding a job was a strategy that assured economic self-sufficiency.

D  preferred welfare to work.