Deck 3: Variations in American Family Life

Question 1

Companionate marriages and families

A) were based on male authority and sexual repression.
B) protected children from the world.
C) emphasized patriarchal decision-making.
D) expected marriages to provide romance, sexual fulfillment, and emotional growth.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The largest ethnic group in the United States is

A) Asian Americans.
B) Hispanics.
C) African Americans.
D) Native Americans.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which  statement applies to Chinese American families?

A) They tend to have lower levels of income than the general population.
B) Women do not work outside the home.
C) They tend to have conservative sexual values.
D) They tend to be less educated than the general population.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

In the contemporary family, _____ have had the greatest impact on reshaping the meaning and experiences of sexuality and parenthood.

A) changes in divorce laws
B) education and religious training
C) revolutions in contraception and biomedical technology
D) economic and political changes

Question 5

In which class do we most often find a two-person career?

A) Upper class
B) Middle class
C) Working class
D) Lower class

Question 6

Society's perception of childhood has varied little over the course of American history.

Question 7

The greatest diversity of American family life probably existed among

A) the European colonists.
B) the Native Americans.
C) African Americans.
D) immigrants to America.

Question 8

Middle-class parents tend to emphasize ______, while working-class parents emphasize _______ in their children.

A) obedience; thrift
B) autonomy; compliance
C) grooming; hard work
D) politeness; honesty

Question 9

In the contemporary family, _____ factors have been responsible for major change in the familial roles played by women and men.

A) biological
B) physical
C) economic
D) medical

Question 10

People who spend at least 27 weeks in the labor force but whose income falls below the poverty threshold are referred to as the _____ poor.

A) working
B) absolute
C) ghetto
D) theoretical

Question 11

Which group makes up the largest component of the Hispanic American population in the United States?

A) Cuban Americans
B) Mexican Americans
C) Puerto Rican Americans
D) Argentinian Americans

Question 12

Premarital pregnancy was unusual in all parts of colonial America.

Question 13

African Americans

A) are currently the largest ethnic group in the United States.
B) have been mainly single-earner families.
C) do not consider kinship bonds to be important.
D) have a long history of being dual-earner families.

Question 14

Better education and higher incomes than the general population tends to be found in which of the following populations?

A) Asian Americans
B) Native Americans
C) Hispanics
D) African Americans

Question 15

In 2015, the calculated poverty line for a family of four in the United States. was

A) $7,900.
B) $39,999.
C) $18,700.
D) $24,250.

Question 16

The ______ is a painful fact that has resulted primarily from high rates of divorce, increasing numbers of unmarried women with children, and women's lack of economic resources.

A) economic dysfunction trend
B) "two-person career" trend
C) androgynization of poverty
D) feminization of poverty

Question 17

Despite the considerable variations among tribal groups, two important aspects of most Native American families are

A) extended families and high rates of intermarriage to non-Native Americans.
B) tribal identities and acculturation.
C) migration and tribal identities.
D) monogamy and extended families.

Question 18

The family over time has moved from being an economically productive unit to a(n)

A) consuming, service-oriented unit.
B) economically dependent unit.
C) primarily dysfunctional unit.
D) individualistic, self-serving unit.

Question 19

The greatest diversity of American family life occurred after the great waves of immigration swept over America.

Question 20

The European colonists who came to America attempted to replicate their familiar family system that emphasized all of the following except:

A) family as an economic and social institution.
B) romantic love as the basis of mate selection.
C) subordination of women.
D) family-centered reproduction.

Question 21

In colonial families, adolescence

A) was considered to be an important transitional stage.
B) was celebrated with many rituals.
C) involved strenuous rites of passage for both boys and girls.
D) did not exist as a separate life stage.

Question 22

The most crucial factor that enabled people to survive the oppression of enslavement, difficulties of immigration, and impoverishment induced by industrialization was

A) economic success.
B) social agencies.
C) the family.
D) political ideology.

Question 23

The culture of poverty is the only way to view the daily life of minority populations.

Question 24

Discuss four major differences between family life in colonial America and postindustrial America.

Question 25

Slave marriages were

A) recognized as legal only in the North.
B) recognized as legal if the slaves had written permission from their owners to marry.
C) recognized as legal only if both slaves had the same owner.
D) not recognized as legal.

Question 26

Most immigrants

A) experienced hostility.
B) arrived in America with skills.
C) were eager to leave their homeland.
D) did not know where they would go once they got to America.

Question 27

Discuss the relationship between race/ethnicity and family values in two different populations in the United States.

Question 28

Slave children in the United States were often forced into hard physical labor as young as age 5 or 6.

Question 29

Chinese Americans tend to exert strong parental control while encouraging their children to develop a sense of independence.

Question 30

Under slavery, the African American family lacked ________ and ________ which helped give free African Americans and whites stability.

A) autonomy; kinship ties
B) monogamy; economic importance
C) autonomy; economic importance
D) strong emotional bonds; economic importance

Question 31

Write an essay identifying the four important factors that initiated changes in American families. Give examples of each.

Question 32

Traditional gender and marital roles mostly prevailed during the 1950s.

Question 33

Discuss structural downward mobility and the impact the recent economic recession has had on family life.

Question 34

The first slaves brought to the United States arrived at

A) Plymouth.
B) Yorktown.
C) Jamestown.
D) Charlestowne.

Question 35

During the Depression, unemployment jumped from 3 million in 1929 to over _____ in 1932.

A) 6 million
B) 12 million
C) 15 million
D) 1 billion

Question 36

Middle-class parents engage in "concerted cultivation."

Question 37

By the beginning of the 20th century, American families lost many of their traditional functions.

Question 38

Increasingly large numbers of Native Americans are marrying non-Native Americans.

Question 39

After industrialization,

A) the family became a unit of production.
B) adolescents became economically independent.
C) women began to control the frequency of intercourse.
D) the belief in childhood innocence was replaced by the idea that children are evil.

Question 40

Write an essay on social class variations in U.S. family life. Be sure to define social class, identify the four classes in the commonly used model, and describe characteristics of families in each class.