Exam 11: Families and Intimate Relationships

Today, most sociologists would consider two gay men and their adopted children, sharing the same household, to be a __________ family.

Couples with more ________ ideas about women's and men's roles tend to share more equally in food preparation, housework, and child care.

Symbolic interactionists Berger and Kellner highlight the importance of __________ for a arital relationship.

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

Explain the difference between families of orientation and families of procreation.

The __________ refers to family units that are composed of various relatives, in addition to parents and children, who live in the same household.

What constitutes a "family" has been widely debated. For many years, the standard sociological definition of family was __________.

As increasing percentages of women work full time, even those with children under age 6, men have taken on relatively equal amounts of domestic chores.

Define monogamy, polygamy, polygyny, and polyandry; describe the types of societies in which each tends to be found.

A significant difference between conflict and feminist perspectives on the family and functionalist perspectives on the family is that___________________.

In regard to housework, Hochschild (2003) reports that_____________________.

__________ analyze family influence on an individual's self-concept and identity. From this perspective, what people think, as well as what they say and do, is very important in understanding family dynamics.

Families are expected to regulate the sexual activity of their members and thus ensure that reproduction takes place within specific boundaries. Incest taboos are an example of this type of regulation that takes place at the __________.

Kissing is not a culturally universal demonstration of intimacy and affection.

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, __________.

Through a pattern of marriage, divorce, and remarriage, some people practice __________-a succession of marriages in which a person has several spouses over a lifetime but is legally married to only one person at a time.

__________ of all marriages with children in the United States are dual-earner marriages, in which both spouses are in the labor force.

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

In a stereotypically conventional family, the wife/mother runs the household, cares for children, and meets the emotional needs of family members. Talcott Parsons termed this the __________.

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