Midterm Exam

A  Family as encumbrance

B  Family as a unified experience

C  Family as monolithic

D  Family as haven

E  Family as a stable and harmonious past

F  Family as fulfillment

A  Family as encumbrance

B  Family as haven

C  Family as stable and harmonious in the past

D  Family as monolithic

E  Family as fulfillment

A  Family as monolithic

B  Family as stable and harmonious in the past

C  Family as encumbrance

D  Family as a unified experience

E  Family as haven

F  Family as fulfillment

A  Family as haven

B  Family as encumbrance

C  Family as monolithic

D  Family as stable and harmonious in the past

E  Family as fulfillment

A  Family as encumbrance

B  Family as haven

C  Family as monolithic

D  Family as stable and harmonious in the past

E  Family as fulfillment

A  Conflict Theory

B  Functionalism

C  Symbolic Interactionism

D  Liberal Feminism

A  Social Breakdown Theory

B  Functionalism

C  Conflict Theory

D  Symbolic Interactionism

A  Conflict Theory

B  Functionalism

C  Symbolic Interactionism

A  Symbolic Interactionism

B  Conflict Theory

C  Functionalism

A  Functionalism

B  Symbolic Interactionism

C  Conflict Theory

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

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  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  family is the locus of competition and violence.

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

C  relationships among family members are no longer idealized.

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

A  increased throughout the 20th century.

B  was associated with low wages and poor working conditions.

C  declined by one-fifth since 2000.

D  still accounts for more than half of all jobs.

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

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

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

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

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

B  the “cult of true womanhood”.

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

D  the work of caring for family members in the home

A  Gender

B  Class

C  Religion

D  Race

A  Monogamy

B  Serial monogamy

C  Polygyny

D  Group marriage

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  an increase in marital problems.

B  an increase in job layoffs.

C  parents working longer hours

D  All of the above

A  Fictive kin

B  Extended family

C  Friend family

D  Nuclear family

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 the ways structures such as race, class, and gender shape families

B  a focus on internal dynamics of nuclear families

C  a focus on relationships in extended families

D  None of the Above

A  Exogamy

B  Polygyny

C  Monogamy

D  Endogamy

A  working class.

B  professional class.

C  middle class.

D  elite.

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

B  promote the nuclear family ideal

C  engage in micro-level analysis of family interaction.

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 diversity in family types

C  the social agency of family members

D  All of the above

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

B  usually divide household labor evenly between spouses.

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

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

A  a patriarchal form of family life.

B  a three-generation family.

C  the family form created by industrialization.

D  an egalitarian family.

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

B  have more children than rich women.

C  preferred welfare to work.

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