Question 1

Discuss the impact of the economic recession of 2008 on individuals and families in the United States.Be sure to include in your answer the impact on homelessness,and the "boomeranger" effect.

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Question 2

A/an __________ family is held together not so much by feelings of warmth and attraction among the members as by outside pressures.

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A) empty-nest 
B) imposed 
C) constructed 
D) empty-shell 
E) exposed

Question 3

In the __________ family,individual nuclear families live separately,but the extended family remains a strong kinship organization through a combination of interpersonal attachments and various forms of economic exchanges and mutual aid.

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A) matricentric 
B) secondary 
C) expanded 
D) isolate 
E) modified-extended

Question 4

A family in which there is child abuse typically can have __________.

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A) only one parent 
B) a low socioeconomic status and level of education 
C) a highly authoritarian parent 
D) changed its place of residence frequently 
E) All of the above

Question 5

Sociologists generally agree that one of the most important social trends of the second half of the twentieth century has resulted in a total upheaval of traditional male and female roles within the family.This trend is __________.

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A) industrialization 
B) the movement we know as "women's liberation (lib)" 
C) the movement of women out of the home and into the workforce 
D) the movement of families from the cities to the suburbs 
E) urbanization

Question 6

In Kathleen Gerson's study of middle-class men's reactions to the prospect of shouldering more of the responsibility for domestic tasks like child care,a significant proportion of those interviewed were choosing the single life and becoming what were called "__________ males."

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A) retread 
B) autonomous 
C) emancipated 
D) solo 
E) singular

Question 7

Which of the following statements about "boomerangers" is TRUE?

Accepted Answer

A) Adults who have had to move back in with their parents are referred to as "boomerangers." 
B) Approximately 11 percent of all adults age 18 or older live with their parents in their home. 
C) 4 percent of all adults in the United States say that they were forced to move back into their parents' home because of the economic recession. 
D) All of the above statements are true. 
E) None of the above statements are true.

Question 8

Divorce rates have increased in the United States.Why is this so? What problems are created by divorce rate increases?

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Question 9

__________ theorists take the view that some forms of crime and other types of deviance result from the inability of some groups,such as the poor,to maintain their traditional structures in settings of rapid social change.

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A) Conflict 
B) Functional 
C) Interactionist 
D) Labeling 
E) Group dynamics

Question 10

A family has problems because a parent is serving in the military during a war or because the "bread winner" is unemployed during an economic recession.These family problems are due to __________.

Accepted Answer

A) a voluntary decision to act 
B) external crises 
C) personal inadequacies 
D) family inflexibility 
E) internally imposed crises

Question 11

Sociologists agree that the family is __________.

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A) fractured and dying 
B) becoming less diversified 
C) here to stay as a social institution 
D) doomed to extinction 
E) unviable in the twenty-first century

Question 12

All family types everywhere have a basic feature,which is __________.

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A) male subordination 
B) an organization of roles 
C) sibling equality 
D) high social status 
E) one adult male and one adult female,monogamously married to each other

Question 13

According to family research expert,David Popenoe,the seedbed of social virtue is __________.

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A) abstinence. 
B) fatherhood 
C) childhood 
D) motherhood 
E) sisterhood

Question 14

Which of the following is NOT an important factor in the continuation of empty-shell marriages?

Accepted Answer

A) habit and fear of change on the part of the partners 
B) dissolution that may cause severe financial hardship 
C) social pressure by others 
D) divorce laws that make it difficult to end these relationships 
E) marriage counselors who put first priority on saving the marriage

Question 15

According to the text,in African American communities,rates of marriage vary positively with __________.

Accepted Answer

A) employment 
B) age 
C) education 
D) social status 
E) religious affiliation

Question 16

About __________ of all marriages begun during the past two decades will end in divorce.

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A) one-eighth 
B) one-fourth 
C) one-third 
D) one-half 
E) two-thirds

Question 17

According to the text's discussion of cohabiting couples,__________.

Accepted Answer

A) this pattern is most common among people over the age of 25 and under age 65 
B) it is estimated that there are fewer than one-half million cohabiting couples in the United States 
C) the substantial research that has been done on this pattern suggests that cohabiting men and women who eventually marry have a higher rate of marital success 
D) All of the above 
E) None of the above

Question 18

In a recent review of 40 studies of children of same-sex couples sponsored by the American Psychological Association,researchers found that,in comparison with children from heterosexual couples,children of gay unions are __________.

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A) just as likely to be well adjusted 
B) less likely to be well adjusted 
C) more likely to be well adjusted 
D) perilously maladapted and problematic 
E) psychologically imbalanced

Question 19

What is the family? Define this term and describe how families have changed as societies have industrialized.

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Question 20

Recently in the United States,a category of the population with relatively fewer divorces has shown an important increase in divorce rates.These are persons __________.

Accepted Answer

A) with college educations and higher socioeconomic status 
B) of middle-class standing and grade school education 
C) with little education and low class status 
D) of upper-class standing and little education 
E) with college degrees but lower-class position

Exam 10: The Changing Family