Question 1

Which type of family did sociologist Judith Stacey find was much less likely to follow the modern family format?

Accepted Answer

A)   Upper-class families
B)   Middle-class families
C)   Working-class families
D)   Low-income families D

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT one of the patterns noted about divorce in the United States?

Accepted Answer

A)   One in five marriages ends in divorce or separation within five years.
B)   Couples who separate do so, on average, after seven years and divorce after eight years.
C)   One in eight marriages dissolves within 10 years.
D)   Divorce patterns for African Americans differ from those of Whites. C

Question 3

The term _____ is used to describe the transfer of moods, feelings, and behavior between work and family settings.

Accepted Answer

A)   glass wall
B)   boundary issue
C)   spillover
D)   stress reaction C

Question 4

Recent research finds the _____ benefits of marriage to be uneven; that is, they differ by social class and race.

Accepted Answer

A)   intimacy
B)   companionship
C)   social
D)   economic

Question 5

Jane and Mary are in their senior year of college. They have decided to forego dorm life and rent an apartment of their own. When the census-taker appears at their door, he records them as a(n)

Accepted Answer

A)   family.
B)   nonfamily household.
C)   extended family.
D)   same-sex couple.

Question 6

In 1970, 72% of all U.S. adults were married. Today, that figure is

Accepted Answer

A)   just over 60%.
B)   almost 55%.
C)   just under 50%.
D)   almost 25%.

Question 7

Many people think of families in the past as better adjusted, more stable, and happier than today. Researchers have found that

Accepted Answer

A)   there was never a golden age of the family.
B)   the true golden age of the family predates anyone alive today.
C)   this was true for the 1950s but not for the 1850s.
D)   families are happier and more stable now that at any time in the past.

Question 8

Jessie Bernard's work demonstrated that each marriage is actually

Accepted Answer

A)   two marriages-his and hers.
B)   the merging of two separate human beings into a single entity.
C)   impossible to evaluate from the outside.
D)   a balance of advantage and abuse.

Question 9

What percentage of people in the United States who remarry were previously divorced (rather than widowed)?

Accepted Answer

A)   10%
B)   40%
C)   60%
D)   90%

Question 10

Which myth of family life blames divorced and unwed mothers for damaging children, destroying families, and tearing apart the fabric of society?

Accepted Answer

A)   The myth of family decline as the cause of social problems
B)   The myth of a unified family experience
C)   The myth of the monolithic family form
D)   The myth of family decline as the cause of social problems.

Question 11

Which myth about family life glorifies family life in a way that masks its dark side?

Accepted Answer

A)   The myth of separate worlds
B)   The myth of the monolithic family form
C)   The myth of a unified family experience.
D)   The myth of a stable and harmonious family of the past

Question 12

John was raised in a home that was the epitome of the 1950s model of an intact nuclear household composed of a male breadwinner, his full-time homemaker wife, and their dependent children. He was surprised to learn that his wife did not want to continue this model of the _____, but preferred to have her own job.

Accepted Answer

A)   downwardly mobile family
B)   preindustrial family
C)   modern family
D)   postmodern family

Question 13

Which term refers to an individual or family moving down in social class due to economic changes?

Accepted Answer

A)   Social descent
B)   Downward mobility
C)   Descending the social ladder
D)   Course correction

Question 14

Which term is defined as the way in which the connections between jobs and family life may be a source of tension for workers and family members?

Accepted Answer

A)   Spillover
B)   Work-family interference
C)   Home-as-haven
D)   Work-life balance

Question 15

Greta is a 62-year-old woman who is raising her five-year-old grandson. They rent an apartment in a converted garage behind a house in a residential neighborhood of a small city. When the census taker visits Greta, she records this household as a

Accepted Answer

A)   blended family.
B)   family.
C)   nonfamily household.
D)   postmodern family.

Question 16

_____ experience their childhoods differently, because there are different expectations, different rules, and different punishments.

Accepted Answer

A)   Blacks and Whites
B)   The rich and the poor
C)   Girls and boys
D)   Children from one-parent vs. two-parent households

Question 17

What percentage of U.S. households today matches the ideal of a married couple with children in which only the husband has a job?

Accepted Answer

A)   75%
B)   63%
C)   53%
D)   22%

Question 18

Since the 1960s, the rise of _____ in the workforce has been dramatic, creating both benefits and constraints for families.

Accepted Answer

A)   women
B)   African Americans
C)   Latinos
D)   first-generation immigrants

Question 19

According to sociologist Judith Stacey, women of immigrant and racial minority families who relied on the support of relatives and the community in order to provide for their families by working outside the home were pioneers of new family forms Stacey calls

Accepted Answer

A)   postmodern families.
B)   nonfamily households.
C)   modern families.
D)   spillover families.

Question 20

Which myth about families is represented by a White, middle-class, heterosexual, father-as-breadwinner, mother-as-homemaker, and children-at-home living in a one-family house?

Accepted Answer