Exam 1: Families and the Sociological Imagination

Adrian is a researcher doing a detailed study about attitudes and opinions people have about being childfree. She wants detailed information from each person. Which method would be best to use?

Your family has a special friend that you are very close to, and call "Auntie Marge," even though she is not related to you. You invite her to many family functions, and share many traditions together. Marge is an example of a/an:

There are several different perspectives of family change. Shane believes that the changing economic structure, such as through a loss of high-paying manufacturing jobs or an erosion of the minimum wage, leads to changing family and gendered roles, which ultimately leads to an underclass with extraordinary challenges facing poor children. Shane represents which perspective?

List the four factors discussed in your text that promote resiliency.

Macro theories represent a general framework that focuses on:

Explain what we mean by the sociological imagination, and elaborate on its two primary components.

Jake is analyzing some data collected by the Census Bureau for his senior project. What type of research method is he using?

Structural functionalist theory focuses on:

You, your siblings, and your parents comprise your:

Social exchange theory suggests that individuals are rational and their behavior reflects an evaluation of costs and benefits.

A number of changes in families have taken place over the past several decades. These changes include:

According to World Map 1.1, the United States has a low infant mortality rate compared to other developing nations.

An organized pattern of social relationships and social institutions that together form the basis of society is called:

You, your spouse, and your children comprise your:

Relationships by blood, marriage, or affection, in which members may cooperate economically, may care for any children, and may consider their identity to be intimately connected to the larger group define a/an:

Which theory examines how individuals' lives change as they pass through the events in their lives, recognizing that many changes are socially produced and shared among a cohort of people?

List the four goals of an empirical approach.

A theory is defined as:

When one family is uninsured, we are tempted to see it as a private problem; however, when 50 million people are uninsured, it is really a social problem. This is the point of:

Nathan Cabrera, in the feature box, shows the importance of community factors in building resiliency.