Midterm Exam

A  Family as a stable and harmonious past

B  Family as monolithic

C  Family as haven

D  Family as fulfillment

E  Family as a unified experience

F  Family as encumbrance

A  Family as monolithic

B  Family as encumbrance

C  Family as haven

D  Family as fulfillment

E  Family as stable and harmonious in the past

A  Family as a unified experience

B  Family as fulfillment

C  Family as monolithic

D  Family as haven

E  Family as stable and harmonious in the past

F  Family as encumbrance

A  Family as stable and harmonious in the past

B  Family as encumbrance

C  Family as fulfillment

D  Family as monolithic

E  Family as haven

A  Family as fulfillment

B  Family as stable and harmonious in the past

C  Family as encumbrance

D  Family as haven

E  Family as monolithic

A  Functionalism

B  Symbolic Interactionism

C  Liberal Feminism

D  Conflict Theory

A  Social Breakdown Theory

B  Symbolic Interactionism

C  Conflict Theory

D  Functionalism

A  Symbolic Interactionism

B  Conflict Theory

C  Functionalism

A  Functionalism

B  Conflict Theory

C  Symbolic Interactionism

A  Symbolic Interactionism

B  Conflict Theory

C  Functionalism

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  relationships among family members are no longer idealized.

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

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

D  family is the locus of competition and violence.

A  declined by one-fifth since 2000.

B  still accounts for more than half of all jobs.

C  was associated with low wages and poor working conditions.

D  increased throughout the 20th century.

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 emergence of the household as a private sphere.

B  the colonial period of the United States.

C  the early twentieth century.

D  the Industrial Revolution.

A  the work of caring for family members in the home

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

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

D  the “cult of true womanhood”.

A  Gender

B  Race

C  Religion

D  Class

A  Group marriage

B  Polygyny

C  Serial monogamy

D  Monogamy

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

B  they lie about how much housework they do.

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

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

A  parents working longer hours

B  an increase in job layoffs.

C  an increase in marital problems.

D  All of the above

A  Friend family

B  Nuclear family

C  Extended family

D  Fictive kin

A  family as church

B  family as house of corrections

C  family as school

D  all of the above were functional roles of the family

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

B  a focus on relationships in extended families

C  a focus on internal dynamics of nuclear families

D  None of the Above

A  Monogamy

B  Endogamy

C  Exogamy

D  Polygyny

A  working class.

B  middle class.

C  professional class.

D  elite.

A  engage in micro-level analysis of family interaction.

B  promote the nuclear family ideal

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

D  All of the above

A  family composition became smaller

B  work moved to factories

C  romantic love became an expectation of marriage

D  All of the above

A  the uneven change in family patterns

B  the social agency of family members

C  the diversity in family types

D  All of the above

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

B  usually divide household labor evenly between spouses.

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

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

A  an egalitarian family.

B  a patriarchal form of family life.

C  a three-generation family.

D  the family form created by industrialization.

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

B  have more children than rich women.

C  preferred welfare to work.

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