Deck 6: Groups and Organizations

Question 1

To date,the technology needed for actual "test-tube babies" has not been developed.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

In Canada,the only legally sanctioned form of marriage is monogamy.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

According to Talcott Parsons,the husband/father fulfills the expressive leadership role in a family.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

A recent trend in Canadian families is that there are now more families without children than families with children.

Question 5

Polyandry is quite common in other countries of the world.

Question 6

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

Question 7

Quebec has the highest proportion of common-law couples of any province in Canada.

Question 8

Although marriages today experience many problems,the majority of marriages in Canada last a lifetime.

Question 9

A family composed of one or two parents and their dependent children,all of whom live in the same home as the paternal grandparents,is called an extended family.

Question 10

Scholars have found historical evidence to indicate that true matriarchies have existed.

Question 11

In postmodern societies,families are diverse and fragmented,and family life may be affected negatively by the blurring of boundaries between work time and family time.

Question 12

Polygyny is the concurrent marriage of one woman with two or more men.

Question 13

The difficulties faced by children of single mothers can be explained by the absence of a male role model.

Question 14

In Canada,there are more common-law-couple families than lone-parent families.

Question 15

Canada is one of the few countries in the world with a national child-care policy.

Question 16

The likelihood of divorce goes up with each subsequent marriage in serial monogamy.

Question 17

During the phasing out of the residential school system in the 1960s and 1970s,Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families and adopted by non-Indigenous families.

Question 18

Sexual expression and parent-children relationships are a part of most family relationships.

Question 19

According to symbolic interactionist perspectives,women's subordination is rooted in patriarchy and men's control over women's labour power.

Question 20

Feminist perspectives on families primarily focus on the problems of dominance and subordination inherent in relationships.

Question 21

According to Statistics Canada (2012),what is the fertility rate for Indigenous women?

A) 1.6
B) 2.6
C) 3.6
D) 4.6

Question 22

In cases involving joint legal custody,what percentage of children live with their fathers?

A) less than 5 percent
B) between 6 and 9 percent
C) about 10 percent
D) almost 15 percent

Question 23

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

Question 24

What do sociologists call "social arrangements that include intimate relationships between couples and close familial relationships with other couples and with other adults and children?"

A) families
B) families we inherit
C) families we adopt
D) families we choose

Question 25

Which term is a postmodern perspective likely to use to describe the family?

A) amended
B) conflicted
C) permeable
D) regular

Question 26

A national opinion poll found that more than two-thirds of Canadians regard the family as the "greatest joy" in their lives.

Question 27

What is the most common form of kinship tracing in industrialized societies?

A) matrilineal descent
B) bilateral descent
C) patrilineal descent
D) unilineal descent

Question 28

In what year were "no fault" provisions introduced into Canada's Divorce Act?

A) 1968
B) 1976
C) 1985
D) 1992

Question 29

Most Canadians will marry at some point in their lives.

Question 30

In gestational surrogacy,the surrogate is artificially inseminated with the father's sperm and the child born is biologically related to the surrogate and the father.

Question 31

Which statement is NOT a key finding in research on people who are single?

A) By the 1960s,more people were single than married.
B) In 2012,nearly 90 percent of Canadians aged 20 to 24 were single.
C) Approximately 1 out of 10 people stay single their whole lives.
D) Staying single is rarely a personal choice.

Question 32

According to the text,joint legal custody of the children represents approximately what percent of custody orders awarded?

A) 80 percent
B) 65 percent
C) 50 percent
D) 35 percent

Question 33

In industrial societies,kinship is usually traced bilineally,that is,through both parents.

Question 34

Émile Durkheim believed that a division of labour in marriages and families contributed to greater efficiency.

Question 35

Genevieve works all day as a sales rep,then comes home and cares for her two children,which involves making meals,cleaning the house,doing laundry,and participating in bedtime rituals.What sociological concept would explain her responsibilities at home?

A) the second shift
B) the double bind
C) the domestic bind
D) the effect of homogamy

Question 36

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

A) sociology of primary group relationships
B) sociology of kinship
C) sociology of the family
D) sociology of intimacy

Question 37

About one-third of all marriages in Canada are dual-earner families.

Question 38

The family into which a person is born and socialized is called a family of procreation.

Question 39

In Indigenous families,the extended family is central to the individual and community.

Question 40

Infertility is defined as an inability to conceive after six months of unprotected sexual relations.

Question 41

Which type of family arrangement do Sharon and Arlene and their adopted son,Liam,constitute?

A) casual families
B) alternative families
C) nontraditional families
D) families we choose

Question 42

Which term refers to a social network of people based on common ancestry,marriage,or adoption?

A) a family
B) a clan
C) a band
D) a kinship

Question 43

Which term refers to the type of family a person forms by adopting children from Africa?

A) family of orientation
B) extended family
C) developing family
D) family of procreation

Question 44

Martin and his wife Ellen decide to use assisted reproductive technology to have a baby.Since Ellen has a genetic disorder,they plan to hire Sally,who will be artificially inseminated with Martin's sperm.Which of the following terms refers to the process they plan to undertake?

A) infertility treatments
B) traditional surrogacy
C) gestational surrogacy
D) intrauterine insemination

Question 45

What percentage of households in Canada are one-person (or single-person)households (as of 2012)?

A) 5 percent
B) 10 percent
C) 15 percent
D) 25 percent

Question 46

Refer to Scenario 1.Which type of family structure are the Roberts an example of?

A) stepfamily or blended family
B) remarried family
C) divorced family
D) extended family

Question 47

Shannon has three children.How does the size of her family compare to the national average?

A) She has half as many children.
B) She has twice as many children.
C) She has the same number of children.
D) She has three times as many children.

Question 48

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

A) 25 to 30 percent
B) 35 to 40 percent
C) 40 to 45 percent
D) 50 to 55 percent

Question 49

Sadiq and Anne tried for five years to have a baby.Now at ages 42 and 43,respectively,they have resigned themselves to being a couple and never becoming parents.What term would they use to describe themselves?

A) childless
B) without kids
C) child free
D) voluntarily childless

Question 50

In 1978,Dave married his high-school sweetheart,Diane.He divorced her in 1996 in order to marry his co-worker Lynda.This marriage lasted three years.After their divorce became finalized,Dave moved in with Serena and the wedding took place two months later.What marriage pattern does Dave exemplify?

A) sequential coupling
B) polygamy
C) polyandry
D) serial monogamy

Question 51

In researching her family tree,Patricia discovered that her great-grandmother had divorced in 1926 and remarried in 1928.She was surprised since she was under the assumption that divorce was a relatively recent phenomenon.When she located the petition for divorce documents,what reason would be given?

A) marital breakdown
B) desertion
C) physical cruelty
D) adultery

Question 52

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?

A) functionalist
B) symbolic interactionist
C) postmodern
D) feminist

Question 53

Jasmine was adopted by her aunt when her mother died.What term best describes this family structure?

A) family of procreation
B) kinship
C) family of orientation
D) stepfamily

Question 54

What destroyed the traditional Indigenous family?

A) a successful assimilation policy
B) interventionist strategies employed by the Canadian state and the church
C) cultural awareness and self-government
D) the informal network and the formal political hierarchy

Question 55

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?

A) socioeconomic bias
B) homogamy
C) class preference
D) normativity

Question 56

Sierra disliked family get-togethers,due to Grandpa's nonstop comments such as "The ruination of this country was when women went out to work" and "A woman's place is in the home." What theoretical perspective was Grandpa arguing from?

A) Marxist-feminist
B) functionalist
C) symbolic interactionist
D) social constructivist

Question 57

Monique is analyzing family life from a feminist perspective.Which of the following statements best describes her views?

A) Motherhood is a social construction supported by unequal relations of power.
B) In capitalist economies,the family is an exploitive institution.
C) Families are responsible for providing economic and psychological support for members.
D) Husbands and wives may have different views about the quality of their marriage.

Question 58

Lisa and Charles recently lost their father.Charles inherits the family estate and lakefront property.What pattern of descent is at work here?

A) monarchical
B) patrilocal
C) patrilineal
D) patriarchal

Question 59

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

A) The family will become secondary in importance for most Canadians.
B) With changing family forms,the family will diminish in importance for society.
C) The family will remain a central institution in the lives of most Canadians.
D) Career is quickly becoming a more significant aspect of Canadians' lives than family.

Question 60

What sociological term refers to a family unit that is composed of relatives in addition to parents and children who live in the same household?

A) disjointed kin
B) extended family
C) nuclear family
D) conjugal family

Question 61

What do some feminist theorists emphasize in their efforts to explain inequality within the family?

A) social status
B) class differences
C) property arrangements
D) patriarchy

Question 62

Which term do couples who decide not to have children often use to describe themselves?

A) childless
B) without kids
C) child free
D) adults with no children

Question 63

Katrina is using a conflict perspective for her term paper for a sociology of the family course.Which statement would best exemplify her thesis?

A) Families confer social status and reputation on their members.
B) Family problems are most apparent among classes of people who are exploited.
C) Families contribute to a shared reality.
D) The nuclear family is only one of many family forms.

Question 64

According to the text,which statement best reflects remarriage trends?

A) Few people who divorce will ever remarry.
B) Most people who divorce remarry.
C) Most divorced people marry individuals who have never been married.
D) More women than men remarry.

Question 65

What macrolevel factor below contributes to higher rates of divorce?

A) changes in social institutions such as religion and the family
B) marriage at an early age
C) cohabitation prior to marriage
D) parents who are divorced or have unhappy marriages

Question 66

Alain and his wife Cleo and their two young sons live in a house they built shortly after they got married.Cleo's parents live in a nearby city,and Alain has family across the country that they seldom see.How would a sociologist describe Alain and Cleo's two-child family?

A) disjointed
B) extended
C) nuclear
D) conjugal

Question 67

After the birth of their child,Sara returned to her well-paid sales position while Matt left his teaching position in order to stay home to raise their son.Which of the following aptly describes their family situation?

A) Sara is performing the expressive role and Matt is performing the instrumental role.
B) Both Sara and Matt are performing conventional gender roles.
C) Sara is performing an unconventional gender role and Matt is performing a conventional gender role.
D) Sara is performing the instrumental role and Matt is performing the expressive role.

Question 68

Which term does Hochschild (1989)use to describe the housework that women perform at home after they complete their workday on the job?

A) gendered division of labour
B) feminization of domestic chores
C) second shift
D) unpaid labour

Question 69

What do recent statistics reveal about family violence?

A) Men and women are at minimal risk of experiencing family violence.
B) Men are increasingly at risk of experiencing family violence.
C) Women are at slightly higher risk of experiencing family violence.
D) Women are five times more likely to experience family violence.

Question 70

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

A) blended
B) limited
C) broad
D) authentic

Question 71

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?

A) family of orientation
B) family of procreation
C) nuclear family
D) extended family

Question 72

What is the commonly used term test tube baby more correctly understood as?

A) a baby created through in vitro fertilization
B) a baby created through intrauterine insemination
C) gestational surrogacy
D) traditional surrogacy

Question 73

.Cody and Natasha have lived together for more than a year,and their child was born last month.From the baby's point of view,what kind of family structure is this?

A) family of orientation
B) family of procreation
C) nuclear family
D) extended family

Question 74

According to Talcott Parsons,which of the following is an important function of the family?

A) to provide a framework for females to achieve their personal and economic goals
B) to provide a framework for reproduction and sexual activity
C) to enable the growth of capitalism
D) to establish a moral and religious base for society

Question 75

What percentage of all families in Canada are dual-earner families?

A) 10 percent
B) 25 percent
C) 50 percent
D) 70 percent

Question 76

What is the most common pattern of unilineal descent?

A) spousal descent
B) patrilineal descent
C) matrilineal descent
D) common-law descent

Question 77

Which term refers to a family structure in which both partners have power and authority?

A) polygamy
B) kinship
C) egalitarian
D) matriarchal

Question 78

What system of inheritance of property and position usually traces from the maternal uncle (mother's brother)to his nephew (mother's son)?

A) matricentric
B) matrilocal
C) matrilineal
D) matriarchal

Question 79

In what year was consensual homosexual sex between adults aged 21 and over decriminalized in Canada?

A) 1957
B) 1969
C) 1977
D) 1989

Question 80

Curtis argues that the popularity of assisted reproductive technology is likely to increase over time.Which theoretical perspective is Curtis using?

A) conflict
B) postmodern
C) symbolic interactionist
D) functionalist