Exam 16: Marriage and Family

The not-so-empty nest is a phrase that refers to when children ________.

Discuss how marriage and family are viewed from the three sociological perspectives.

Shacking up or living in sin are old-fashioned ways to describe ________.

Discuss the characteristics and trends in marriage among U.S. families.

Marianne and her children live in a neighborhood where all the families share their resources when someone needs help. The neighbors also consider themselves to be an extended family. Sociologists would describe them as ________ .

Of the following, in which group is a woman more likely to marry a man with less education than she has?

What pattern does the relationship between a father and his children take following divorce?

In some Native American tribes, what transpires when a male warrior takes on a berdache?

Romantic love and its importance in marriage are a cultural universal.

Sociologically, what is a blended family?

The rate of divorce among remarried couples is much lower than the rate of divorce among first time marriages.

Maria and Brian recently gave birth to their first child. Based on sociological findings, what is the likely change in the marital satisfaction that Maria and Brian feel towards one another?

List and discuss the three systems of descent society uses to trace kinship over generations.

What is the single most significant issue that Native American families face?

What state had the most extreme penalty for interracial marriage?

Based on research, romantic love consists of what two components?

Compare love and marriage in the United States and in India, and briefly explain why there are differences.

Those who never get married are more likely to live longer than those who get divorced.

Sociologically, what is the immediate family of husband, wife, and children called who live apart from other kin?

Bertha has just turned 16 and has caught the special interest of her father because she looks just as attractive and sexy as her mother did when they first dated. Bertha's mother has noticed this and now feels like a maid, not a wife and mother. What do sociologists call this condition of a father seeing his daughter as a possible sexual interest, and a wife feeling as though she is a maid, rather than a wife and mother?