Question 1

What is a nuclear family?

Accepted Answer

A nuclear family consists of a cohabiting man and woman who maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and have at least one child.

Question 2

Potential spouses bring certain resources with them to a "marriage market".Examples of these resources are:

Accepted Answer

A)  financial assets
B)  status
C)  values
D)  taste and knowledge
E)  all of these choices E

Question 3

A gender division of labor does not exist among foragers.Men and women hunt together.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 4

What did Friedrich Engels conclude about gender and family inequality?

Accepted Answer

The answer of What did Friedrich Engels conclude about gender...

Question 5

Some single-parent families result from separation,divorce,or death.Others result from people not getting married in the first place.Marriage is an increasingly unpopular institution,particularly among:

Accepted Answer

A)  Hispanic Americans
B)  African Americans
C)  Asian Americans
D)  European Americans
E)  Native Americans

Question 6

According to Friedrich Engels,the only way to end gender inequality is to abolish religion.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

The proportion of single-mother families has been:

Accepted Answer

A)  decreasing in recent decades
B)  increasing most dramatically among Latinos
C)  increasing most dramatically among African Americans
D)  increasing most dramatically among Asian Americans
E)  increasing most dramatically among European Americans

Question 8

The percentage of people who marry inside their group is about ____ for European Americans.

Accepted Answer

A)  85%
B)  65%
C)  45%
D)  25%
E)  5%

Question 9

Which country extends full and equal marriage rights to homosexuals?

Accepted Answer

A)  Russia
B)  Cambodia
C)  the United States
D)  France
E)  the Netherlands

Question 10

According to Murdock,there is a division of labor in marriage because women are ill prepared to accomplish certain physically demanding tasks.Men possess superior strength and specialize in physically difficult tasks.Which function of marriage does this illustrate?

Accepted Answer

A)  sexual regulation
B)  economic cooperation
C)  reproduction
D)  emotional support
E)  socialization

Question 11

When individuals marry in the United States today,they typically marry for what reason?

Accepted Answer

A)  false expectations
B)  love
C)  political alliances
D)  convention or tradition
E)  none of these choices

Question 12

Women's increased autonomy is associated with:

Accepted Answer

A)  the introduction of the birth control pill
B)  the entry of women into higher education
C)  the entry of women into the paid labor force
D)  all of these choices
E)  none of these choices

Question 13

There is rough gender equality among the !Kung-San,a foraging society in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana,which is partly due to the fact that:

Accepted Answer

A)  women play such a key economic role in providing food.
B)  women do not do much of the childcare.
C)  women do both the hunting and the gathering.
D)  women control the power and authority regarding communal "band" matters.
E)  women's ability to bear children creates a protected reverence for all females.

Question 14

The number of divorces that occur in a year for every 1,000 people in the population is the:

Accepted Answer

A)  divorce rate
B)  marriage rate
C)  total fertility rate
D)  family rate
E)  nuptiality index

Question 15

What are "local marriage markets"?

Accepted Answer

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Question 16

A family composed of a cohabiting man and woman who maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and have at least one child,and in which the wife works in the home without pay and the husband works outside the home for money is called:

Accepted Answer

A)  extended family
B)  nuclear family
C)  traditional nuclear family
D)  global nuclear family
E)  postmodern family

Question 17

In the traditional nuclear family:

Accepted Answer

A)  the wife works in the home without pay
B)  the husband stays home to care for the children
C)  stepchildren are major partners in the family structure
D)  the parents are not involved in the community
E)  none of these choices

Question 18

According to some functionalist sociologists,rising rates of crime,illegal drug use,poverty,and welfare dependency can be traced to the fact that so many American children are not living in two-parent households with stay at home mothers.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Although we are more likely now than ever before to fall in love with,and marry,anyone we want,social forces:

Accepted Answer

A)  expand our choices to varying degrees
B)  constrain our choices to varying degrees
C)  do nothing more than provide choices
D)  may be flexible,depending on which community we live in
E)  may be inflexible,depending on which community we live in

Question 20

Murdock defined a ____ as a socially approved,presumably long-term,sexual and economic union between a man and a woman.

Accepted Answer

A)  family
B)  social contract
C)  marriage
D)  social organization
E)  mating

Exam 15: Families

What is a nuclear family?

Potential spouses bring certain resources with them to a "marriage market".Examples of these resources are:

A gender division of labor does not exist among foragers.Men and women hunt together.

What did Friedrich Engels conclude about gender and family inequality?

Some single-parent families result from separation,divorce,or death.Others result from people not getting married in the first place.Marriage is an increasingly unpopular institution,particularly among:

According to Friedrich Engels,the only way to end gender inequality is to abolish religion.

The proportion of single-mother families has been:

The percentage of people who marry inside their group is about ____ for European Americans.

Which country extends full and equal marriage rights to homosexuals?

According to Murdock,there is a division of labor in marriage because women are ill prepared to accomplish certain physically demanding tasks.Men possess superior strength and specialize in physically difficult tasks.Which function of marriage does this illustrate?

When individuals marry in the United States today,they typically marry for what reason?

Women's increased autonomy is associated with:

There is rough gender equality among the !Kung-San,a foraging society in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana,which is partly due to the fact that:

The number of divorces that occur in a year for every 1,000 people in the population is the:

What are "local marriage markets"?

A family composed of a cohabiting man and woman who maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and have at least one child,and in which the wife works in the home without pay and the husband works outside the home for money is called:

In the traditional nuclear family:

According to some functionalist sociologists,rising rates of crime,illegal drug use,poverty,and welfare dependency can be traced to the fact that so many American children are not living in two-parent households with stay at home mothers.

Although we are more likely now than ever before to fall in love with,and marry,anyone we want,social forces:

Murdock defined a ____ as a socially approved,presumably long-term,sexual and economic union between a man and a woman.