Exam 1: Introduction to Diversity in Canadas Families: Variation in Forms, Definitions, and Theories

The term "________" refers to young adults who leave their parental homes for work or school, only to return due to large debt loads, shifting employment prospects, or changing marital statuses.

In the first half of the twentieth century, the prevailing literature on families tended to ignore or devalue families of culturally or ethnically non-dominant groups.

Describe how a researcher could study Canadian families by taking a Marxist approach.

Family systems theory assumes that a family is a relatively closed system of social interactions, or a site of interacting personalities.

Exchange theory is a broad theoretical framework used to examine relational processes within families. It borrows from ________

Discuss the statistical trends and patterns associated with same-sex families in Canada.

All of the following, except for ________, are familiar with living in multi-generational households and pooling family resources.

What is meant by the term "social reproduction?"

Divorce rates peaked a year after the 1986 changes to the Divorce Act.

Many new immigrants to Canada, older Canadians, and Canadians with disabilities tend to live in multi-generational households.

For the first time in 2011, the Census was changed to include and count stepfamilies.

Duvall and Hill argued that families go through a series of ________ developmental stages in the family cycle.

What are two of the most significant changes that have been made to the Canadian Census over the past 25 years related to collecting data on families?

Functionalism incorporates the concept that men and women are equally suited to perform instrumental and expressive tasks within the family to ensure its survival.

Same-sex unions have gone from being illegal, to being invisible, to being recognized and counted as marriages and families.

George Herbert Mead assumed that individuals were active agents or "doers" of social life.

Many racialized immigrants in Canada live in poverty because of ________

Ethnographic resesearch, such as Margaret Mead's work on families and culture in the South Pacific, is best described as ______

The term "satellite children" was first used in the 1980s to describe ________ children whose parents were immigrants to North America.

A "________" consists of related or unrelated individuals who share a dwelling.