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49 Cards in this Set
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According to the text, over time, cohabitation has become:
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Mainstream
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What contributes to young adults continuing to live with their parents or to move back
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Personal Decorating Pref.
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Family togetherness, stability, and loyalty are all examples of:
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Family values
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When persons think in terms of seeking primarily personal—as opposed to communal
or group—happiness and goals, this reflects which orientation? |
Idividualistic
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Parents, especially, and siblings and other relatives are usually highly influential in
developing a child’s _____________, or that child’s sense of worth and value. |
self-concept
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The text points out that families create, store, preserve, and pass on particular objects,
events, or rituals that members consider relevant to them. This refers to which function of the family? |
Archival
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Over the last five years, the proportion of children living in single parent families has:
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Stabilized
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Compared to the recent past, children are __________ likely to live with a grandparent
today. |
More
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Data from a longitudinal study suggest that, since the 1970s, an earlier trend in individualism has:
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Reversed
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A person who believed in the “family decline” theory might say what?
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There is a serious breakdown in family
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Family diversity has progressed to the point that there is:
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No typical family
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We live in a society characterized by ________________ change, including increased ethnic, economic, and family diversity.
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considerable
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Realistic flavor and vivid detail are most likely to be found in which type of research method?
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Case study
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According to the text, one disadvantage of survey research is:
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People will say what they think researchers want to hear
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In the contemporary version of evolutionary theory, it is the survival of one’s genes, termed __________, that is important.
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Inclusive fitness
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The __________ perspective has its roots in Charles Darwin’s principle of the survival of the fittest.
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Biosocial
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Sociobiology and evolutionary psychology are alternate terms for which perspective?
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Biosocial
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. The conflict and feminist perspectives call attention to __________ within groups
including families – and within the larger society. |
unequal power
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The __________ perspective looks at the family as a whole; for change to occur, the family system as a whole must change.
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family systems
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According to the exchange theory, the partner with less commitment to the
relationship is the one who has more power, including the power to exploit the other. This concept is identified as: |
the principle of less interest
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According to the interactionist theoretical perspective, ______________ is how
children begin to learn behavior appropriate to the roles they may play in adult life. |
Role taking
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The question of how two previously separate individuals come together and over time create a shared view of themselves as a couple would be best answered using which perspective?
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Interactionest
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Suppose that a law states: “The husband is the head of the household. As such, he will establish a place and a mode of living and the wife must conform thereto. The husband must support his wife and minor children out of his labor. The wife must assist him insofar as she is able.” This hypothetical law is consistent with the focus of which theoretical perspective?
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structure functional
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The view that the family is an enduring social institution because of the important tasks it performs for society – reproduction, emotional support, socialization of children – is the __________ perspective.
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srtucture functional
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For Muslims, dating, marital choice, childrearing, the employment of women, dress,
and marital decision-making are all __________ issues. |
Religious
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In comparison with Protestants, Catholics tend to be more __________ in their
worldview. |
Communcal
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At present, __________ are the numerical majority in the United States.
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whites
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In Miller’s typology of Native American families, __________ families have lost
Indian culture and are becoming assimilated to the white working class. |
trasitional
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Among American Indians, compare cohabitation versus marriage.
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More couples cohabitate and less marry than U.S. average
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__________ are most likely of all minority groups to be caring for older family
members. |
Asian Americans
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Some immigrant parents have been separated from their children, leaving them
behind in the care of relatives for long periods, thus engaging in: |
Transitional Motherhood
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. Immigrants and children of immigrants now compose about __________ of the U.S.
population. |
1/5th
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According to recent estimates, there are __________ million undocumented immigrants residing in the United States.
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11
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.__________ have a tradition of informal marriage.
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Puerto Ricans
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Binational families are those in which:
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Some family members are legal residents but some are not legal
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One possible explanation for the lower marriage rates of African Americans is/are:
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high rates of incarceration of black men
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According to the text, marriages of the future may contain “equally dependent
spouses”. What are the qualities of this type of marriage? |
Each spouse is equally dependante
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The 1994 Gender Equity Act declares girls a(n) “__________ population.”
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underseved
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The text observes that all of the gender socialization theories discussed:
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seems plausable but lacks evidence
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The process by which society influences members to internalize attitudes and expectations is called:
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socialization
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Genetic heritage is expressed through __________ processes.
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Hormonal
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Evolutionary perspectives stress that stratification and the division of labor in society shape gender roles. In this view, it is __________ that produce the gendered behavior we see.
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structural strengths
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After various factors associated with earnings are taken into account, research finds a
varying, but perhaps as much as a _______ , differential in earnings that is usually attributed to discrimination. |
20%
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Cross-culturally and historically, it appears that ___________ societies have been
characterized by some degree of male dominance. |
All
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In 2006, employed women earned __________ percent of what employed men did.
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81%
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One hypothesis which is replacing the usual assumption of gender differences “holds
that males and females are similar on most, but not all, psychological variables”. This theory is called the: |
Gender simularities hypothesis
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The preeminence of the male provider role is a powerful theme in __________ racial
groups. |
All
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According to the text, more and more women are entering nontraditional occupations
such as: |
The military
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. A feminine expectation that has emerged over the past twenty years is that of the
“__________ woman”: independent, ambitious, and self-confident. |
Professional
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