Deck 11: Families

Question 1

A social practice that has evolved over time to meet specific social needs is called a(n) ____________________.

A) social function
B) social institution
C) practical consequence
D) unintended consequence

Answer 1

social institution

Question 2

Family arrangements vary according to physical environment, shared history, and ___________.

A) individual personalities
B) leadership models
C) history
D) culture

Answer 2

culture

Question 3

With respect to workable arrangements for meeting economic and emotional needs of individuals and intimate groups, the nuclear family, popular in North America, is ________________.

A) one of many possible ways of doing family life
B) the most advanced and functional form of family arrangement
C) the most dysfunctional form of family
D) a mythical form of family

Answer 3

one of many possible ways of doing family life

Question 4

Where is the right to maternity entrenched in Canada today?

A) religious doctrine
B) social policy
C) Quebec social policy only
D) cultural practices

Question 5

With respect to gender differences, how were the gendered lives of upper class women and men organized in the Victorian era?

A) highly gender polarized
B) highly egalitarian, compared to present day North American society
C) very libertine, with respect to gender rules
D) indistinguishable from each other

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT one of the three major demographic changes in twenty-first century Canadian family life?

A) decreased in family size
B) increase in divorce rates
C) emergence of increasing variety of family arrangements
D) decrease in lone-parent households

Question 7

What term refers to the measurement of the average number of children born to women between the ages of 15 and 49?

A) total fertility rate
B) mean fertility rate
C) infant mortality rate
D) maternity rate

Question 8

The most obvious change in family arrangements into the late twentieth century was the emergence of ____________ households.

A) more equitable
B) diverse kinds of
C) same-sex
D) less equitable

Question 9

How many Canadians live alone, according to recent census data?

A) 1%
B) 5%
C) 10%
D) 20%

Question 10

What is the name for a legally recognized union in which two adults form a long-term intimate relationship without participating in a religious or legal ceremony?

A) Wiccan commitment ceremony
B) common law union
C) civil union
D) secular union

Question 11

Which of the following is true, according to Canadian Census data on the question of whether or not the number of same-sex households is increasing?

A) it is impossible to say at this time
B) numbers of same-sex households are increasing, likely due to greater social acceptance
C) numbers of same-sex households are generally stable
D) numbers of same-sex households increased during the late 1990's but now appearing to be declining

Question 12

What has happened to the number of lone-parent families in Canada in recent years, compared to the 1930's?

A) it has gone up dramatically
B) it has decreased slightly
C) it has increased slightly
D) it has stayed virtually the same

Question 13

A family which contains children from both spouses from one or more previous unions or from the current union and from previous unions is identified by Statistics Canada as a _______________.

A) diverse family
B) step family
C) blended family
D) mixed family

Question 14

How is the "traditional" family form identified in the text book?

A) the optimal site for raising children, in spite of some of its problems
B) a fairly short-lived middle -class phenomenon
C) the ideal arrangement for modern, but not postmodern, societies
D) a force to be organized against and overthrown once and for all

Question 15

Historically, what domain has been understood to be the male sexual territory?

A) the paid workplace
B) the disciplining of children
C) the educational system
D) formal religion

Question 16

According to Kingsley Davis' (1984) work on family patterns, the key factor that lead to the fall of the homemaker/bread maker arrangement was:

A) rise of divorce rates
B) extramarital affairs
C) lower wages in certain sectors of the economy
D) increasing social acceptance for daycare

Question 17

In her long-term research on how families cope with demands of paid and unpaid work, Arlie Hochschild argued that every person develops a plan of action through which they try to solve problems at hand, given the cultural notions of gender that are at play. She refers to such a plan as a _______________.

A) gender strategy
B) cooperative relation
C) second shift
D) stalled revolution

Question 18

What was the term used by Arlie Hochschild to describe the state of affairs in which the activities of men and women have changed while the institutions that have not kept pace with such changes?

A) inevitable revolution
B) stalled revolution
C) cooperative revolution
D) hierarchical dividend

Question 19

Which country has adopted policies giving parents the right to work part-time when children are young, along with the right to go back to full-time work at any point?

A) Canada
B) United States
C) Denmark
D) Sweden

Question 20

The culturally constructed trend that is based on the premise that raising children is the most important undertaking of a woman's life is referred to by Hays (1996) as __________________.

A) regressive mothering
B) intensive mothering
C) extensive mothering
D) traditionalism

Question 21

What are the three major demographic changes in twenty-first century Canadian family life?

Question 22

How were upper class Victorian women socialized and what does this reveal for us about gender?

Question 23

What are some of the gender issues linked with patterns of divorce? .

Question 24

Why is it not possible at this time to effectively assess whether or not same-sex households in Canada are a growing trend?

Question 25

Why do the authors of the textbook place the category of the traditional family in quotation marks?

Question 26

Write an essay in which you critically examine the ways in which "family" is depicted and naturalized in popular parenting magazines, paying particular attention to diversity (or lack thereof) in family form and as well as to the gendered representations of parenthood.

Question 27

Develop a research essay in which you explore changing policies in Canada on parental leave over the past 25 years. Pay particular attention to gender differences, including non-traditional family forms.

Question 28

Write an essay based upon a content analysis of popular culture's representation of family life in North America in the early twenty-first century. Assess the extent to which it reflects changing patterns in "doing" family life that are noted in chapter eleven.