Exam 12: Education and Religion

______________are responsible primarily for regulating sexual activity, socializing children, and providing affection and companionship for members.

______________is the term for concurrent marriage of a person of one sex with two or more members of the opposite sex.

The most prevalent pattern of power and authority in families is egalitarian-a family structure in which partners share power and authority.

The cultural practice of marrying outside of one's own group is termed ______________.

______________refers to a marriage between two partners, usually a woman and a man.

The______________ is the family that a person forms by having or adopting children of his or her own.

Emile Durkheim saw the family as a microcosm of society. He argued that, much like in society generally, _____________________________.

The divorce rate in the United States has been steadily increasing since the early twentieth century.

Sexual expression and parent-child relationships are not necessarily part of all family relationships.

The changing attitudes about same-sex marriage are being driven by ______________.

The most prevalent pattern of power and authority in families is______________ Across cultures, men are the primary decision makers regarding domestic, economic, and social concerns facing the family.

Describe recent patterns in cohabitation, including the prevalence of cohabitation, the relative impact of cohabiting on marital success, and which people are most likely to cohabit. Define domestic partnership as part of your response.

Kinship in industrial societies is usually traced through both parents (bilineally). The most common form is______________ , which is a system of tracing descent through both the mother's and father's sides of the family.

Adoption is a legal process through which the rights and duties of parenting are transferred from a child's biological parents and/or legal parents to new legal parents. According to the text's discussion of adoption,______________.

Sociologists note that women and men in the United States may have very different ideas about and perceptions of love. One of the differences is that men, more than women,______________ .

Children are affected the least by household violence.

Describe the pattern in the United States of remarriage after divorce.

Despite the wide variety of reasons people have for getting married, the choice of who they will marry is fairly predictable.

Across cultures,______________ is the most common residential pattern.

With the advent of industrialization and urbanization, maintaining the______________ family pattern becomes more difficult. Increasingly, young people move from rural to urban areas in search of employment in the industrializing sector of the economy. At that time, the ______________family typically becomes the predominant family pattern in the society.