Exam 6: Groups and Organizations

Daiyu is an international student from China in her third year of graduate studies in Canada.She turned down a marriage proposal from Rick-the custodian in her apartment building-and agreed to marry Jian,who is also from China and an intern at the local hospital.What term best describes this pattern?

Most Canadians will marry at some point in their lives.

What type of family membership do Indigenous families in Canada tend to have?

Why is the concept of family difficult to define?

Based on current data,which forecast for the future of families in Canada is most likely?

One perspective in sociology saw the heterosexual nuclear family as a social institution with a particularly unique role as the foundation of society.Which approach was this?

The standard sociological definition of family is generally accepted by all sociologists today.

In Canada,based on a cohort approach,what percentage of marriages will end in divorce?

What are three main reasons for the rapid increase of divorce rates during the latter half of the 20th century?

In what type of family structure does the mother hold authority?

What subdiscipline of sociology attempts to describe and explain patterns of family life and variations in family structure?

Josiah lives in British Columbia in a small farming community where all the men of marriageable age are encouraged to take more than one wife and produce as many children as God sees fit to bless them with.What type of family has Josiah been influenced to form?

Darren works as a welder and his wife,Dorothy,is a stay-at-home mom,raising their two children and a child for whom they are foster parents.What type of family are they?

Refer to Scenario 1.Based on a functionalist perspective,which function of the family does the camping trip primarily serve?

Men,more often than women,are the first to choose a child-free lifestyle.

According to some feminist scholars,what kind of family pattern is closely related to the hostility and violence perpetrated by men against women?

What macrolevel factor below contributes to higher rates of divorce?

Define adoption and explain why international adoptions are becoming more popular.

After years of futile attempts to have a child,Jack and Katrina welcomed their adopted child Mei Ling into their home.What kind of family structure do they make?

Refer to Scenario 1.What kind of power structure appears at work in the Roberts' household?