Deck 7: Families and Intimate Relationships

Question 1

Which type of family do children in Australia live mostly in?

A) Lone-parent families
B) Grandparent-headed families
C) Couple families
D) Same-sex families

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which theoretical perspective introduced the domestic division of labour debate?

A) Structural functionalism
B) Feminism
C) Symbolic interactionism
D) Postmodernism

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Who portrayed the nuclear family as the best way of bringing up children?

A) Talcott Parsons
B) Betty Friedan
C) Simone de Beauvoir
D) Erving Goffman

Answer 3

A

Question 4

When do sociologists suggest the process of individualisation occurred?

A) Late modernity
B) Pre-industrial society
C) The nineteenth century
D) With the arrival of industrial capitalism

Question 5

When did the notion of childhood as a separate sphere of life first occur?

A) In pre-industrial times
B) In colonial Australia
C) In early industrial capitalism
D) Late in the nineteenth century

Question 6

According to Jamieson what are intimate relationships characterised by?

A) Sexual activity
B) Loving, caring, and sharing
C) Being married
D) Having lots of different partners

Question 7

What has been the general trend in fertility rates in Australia since Federation in 1901?

A) Fertility rates have remained steady
B) Fertility rates have fallen
C) Fertility rates have risen
D) Fertility rates have fluctuated wildly over the period

Question 8

What has been the general trend in the Australian divorce rate over the last decade?

A) The divorce rate has been reasonably constant
B) The divorce rate has risen
C) The divorce rate has fallen
D) The divorce rate has fluctuated wildly over the period

Question 9

In the last 50 years, what has occurred to the size of Australian households?

A) They have become larger
B) They have become smaller
C) They have remained constant
D) They have become more complex and unable to be easily classified

Question 10

Over the last hundred years in Australia, what has occurred to women's median age of marriage?

A) Remained the same as men
B) Remained the same
C) Fallen
D) Risen