Exam 12: Life at Home: Families and Relationships

The family is created and sustained through interactional work.

How could new technologies like the Internet decrease the importance of propinquity in mate selection while preserving or even increasing the importance of homogamy?

Most young people face similar financial pressures while in their twenties, but considerably more men move back in with their parents than women. What is one reason for this?

Which of the following is a strategy that some middle- and upper-class women have used to balance the demands of work and home?

YMAY-12.1-6. Talcott Parsons held the view that the family is responsible for the reproduction of society as it produces and socializes children who will in turn become future workers and produce and socialize more new members of society. What type of theoretical viewpoint is this?

Judith Stacey's Brave New Families explored the ways in which families adapted to meet the challenges of a postmodern society. They did so by creating innovative family structures that looked very different from the "traditional" family. Which of the following would you think was the full title of Stacey's book?

Why do symbolic interactionists studying the family say the "family" does not exist, only "families"? What do they mean by this?

What is the main reason abusive partners resort to intimate partner violence?

Many Americans claim to believe that "love is blind" and that romance can occur anywhere as long as two people have chemistry. However, the argument made in Chapter 12 is that society is primarily responsible for two people pursuing a romantic relationship. What social factors play into the mate selection process?

What is the meaning of propinquity?

________ is what sociologists call marriage to someone from a different social group.

To whom has Hochschild's concept of the "Supermom" always been applicable?

Approximately half of all millennials say that marrying someone of a different race is good for society.

Which of the following was true of parenting in the nineteenth century and earlier?

The likelihood of individuals cohabitating with one another has declined modestly since 1996.

Arlie Hochschild's study of two-income families found that women were much more likely than men to do the majority of the unpaid labor inside the home, even after a full day's work outside the home. What term do sociologists use to describe this extra labor?

How do rates of intimate partner violence differ across racial groups?

What would a music critic call "musical miscegenation" if they used the term "miscegenation" metaphorically?

How does the birth of children tend to change the gendered division of labor within the household?

Sometimes child welfare agencies are called to investigate a child who never seems to have clean clothing and is very skinny. The suspicion would be that the child is a victim of