Exam 15: Families and Intimate Relationships

David Popenoe argues that mothers and fathers influence children differently. In his view, a family consisting of two fathers and a daughter would be limited because:

List two of the five major trends affecting marriage in Western industrial societies.

The term for a group of people directly linked by kin connections, the adult members of which assume responsibility for caring for children, is:

Which woman is experiencing what Betty Friedan termed "the feminine mystique"?

A sociologist observes that couples today express a desire for equality and symmetry, but in reality, women still do much more housework than men. If the sociologist develops this observation into a research study, which theoretical perspective is most directly related to the topic?

We are all born into our family of orientation or origin, and our family of procreation is that which we enter into to raise a future generation of children. What is one additional distinction between our family of orientation and family of procreation?

Judith Stacey argues that the model perpetuated by Popenoe and others is a "dated and oppressive institution." In her view, this broken, outdated model of the so-called modern family is usually defined as:

Whereas earlier schools of thought focused on the family as a unit, feminist thinkers instead considered the:

Why do sociologists distinguish between kinship and marriage, and what is a key difference between them?

What does research on family-structure effects on children reveal about the difference in experience between girls and boys when considering both a stepfamily and a divorced household?

Cohabiting couples are increasing in the United States. Which of the following people in cohabiting unions are most likely to marry?

The Kazaks in Mongolia live in extended families and practice patrilocality. If the elder sons follow the practice of patrilocality, what will they do?

Legal changes have made divorce easier in the past 50 years. What is the other significant reason that the divorce rate has gone up in the past several decades?

In 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that same-sex marriage was legal in all states. This ruling marks a milestone in this debate over marriage. It also challenges the ideal of what David Popenoe and others have argued as to what defines a "family," namely:

Cuban Americans have higher rates of wealth, lower rates of fertility, and lower levels of nonmarital fertility than other Hispanic groups. Sociologists think this is because:

Darren and Eliza were married five years and then divorced. Their pattern of "uncoupling" followed the pattern described by Diane Vaughan's 1986 study. What happened to Darren and Eliza?

The family plays an important role in adults' lives by giving them emotional support. Sociologist Talcott Parsons called this:

Which of the following are more likely to divorce at some point in the life cycle?

When did affective individualism emerge as an American norm for family life, and what are some of its key characteristics?

Many societies sanction the male having more than one wife at the same time. The most specific term for this arrangement is: