Deck 8: Microsociology

Question 1

Which is the least common marriage practice?

A) Polygamy
B) Polyandry
C) Monogamy
D) Hypergamy

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Marriage between one man and one women is called _____.

A) Polygamy
B) Polyandry
C) Monogamy
D) Hypergamy

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which society is least likely to favor polygamy?

A) Hunting and Gathering societies
B) Horticultural societies
C) Agrarian societies
D) Modern, industrial societies.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

_____ are more likely to have numerous wives.

A) high-status men
B) low-status men
C) short men
D) Spaniards

Question 5

The practice of marrying up in status and wealth is called _____.

A) Polygamy
B) Polyandry
C) Monogamy
D) Hypergamy

Question 6

Which man is least likely to find a wife?

A) a banker
B) a king
C) a president
D) a janitor

Question 7

______ is a payment of goods and/or services by the groom to the bride's parents.

A) A dowry
B) A tribute
C) A tributary
D) Bridewealth

Question 8

Which is not a pattern of descent common in human societies.

A) Matrilineal
B) Patrilineal
C) Double
D) Triple

Question 9

Double Descent means _____.

A) only disyllabic names are recognized i.e.Jackson
B) only multi-child families are recognized
C) both a matrilineage and patrilineage are recognized.
D) descent only traces back 2 generations

Question 10

Avunculocality is the practice of _____.

A) avocado farming
B) the couple settling in proximity to the groom's mother's brother
C) the couple moving far away from the groom's mother in law
D) the couple moving near their best friend's, aunt's, neighbor's, son's, dog's former owner.

Question 11

In which society is neolocality typically practiced?

A) Modern Industrial societies.
B) Agrarian societies.
C) Hunting/Gathering societies.
D) Horticultural societies.

Question 12

In which societies is adultery most severely punished.

A) Patrilineal
B) Matrilineal
C) Industrial
D) Adultery is encouraged everywhere.

Question 13

Which is not a method of controlling women?

A) Women's suffrage
B) Binding women's feet
C) Veils and Headscarves
D) Restriction of movement

Question 14

Most consumers of prostitution are _____.

A) Women
B) Men
C) Fish
D) Cyanobacteria

Question 15

In which society is a typical family likely to be the smallest.

A) Horticultural
B) Agrarian
C) Hunting/Gathering
D) Industrial

Question 16

Women earned the right to vote in the US in ____

A) 1776
B) 1860
C) 1920
D) Women still are barred from the voting process in all states except for New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

Question 17

_____ published the "Feminine Mystique", which helped start the feminist movement.

A) Gloria Swanson
B) Rachel Ray
C) Betty Friedan
D) Ayn Rand

Question 18

The average age for a women's first marriage in the US is _____.

A) 18
B) 25
C) 35
D) 43

Question 19

Love is associated with which chemical in the brain?

A) hydrochloric acid
B) dopamine
C) neuroglycine
D) collagen

Question 20

In contemporary society, people tend to marry _____.

A) at random
B) foreigners
C) people from the same class as themselves
D) people from the same sign of the zodiac

Question 21

In contemporary families housework is ____.

A) shared equally
B) still done mostly by men
C) still done mostly by the children
D) still done mostly by women

Question 22

Which type of society is most likely to have a bridewealth custom.

A) Horticultural
B) Hunting/Gathering
C) Industrial
D) Agrarian

Question 23

The average cost of raising a child to the age of 18 in the US is approximately _____.

A) $1,000
B) $2,500
C) $250,000
D) $1 million

Question 24

Which child tends to receive, on average, the least investment from the family?

A) biological children
B) adopted children
C) step-children
D) they all receive the same amount of investment

Question 25

The most dangerous time for a women is _____.

A) when she enters the relationship
B) when she leaves the relationship
C) when she insults her husband
D) when she disobeys her husband

Question 26

Polyandry is common.

Question 27

Most societies do not permit polygamy.

Question 28

Men tend to marry younger women.

Question 29

Men tend to marry up in status and wealth.

Question 30

In some high status groups in 19^th century India, daughters were routinely killed at birth.

Question 31

Hypergamy is problematic for low status men.

Question 32

In most pre-industrial societies, a person is expected to marry out of their own group.

Question 33

In pre-industrial societies there is rarely a specific group into which one is expected to marry.

Question 34

Most societies have some form of bridewealth custom.

Question 35

Agrarian societies are the least likely of the societies to have dowries.

Question 36

Patrilocal families live with the woman's parents.

Question 37

Bilocal residence means the couple can choose what family they wish to live with.

Question 38

Neolocal residence is most common in Agrarian societies.

Question 39

Adultery is more serious in matrilineal societies than in patrilineal societies.

Question 40

Women of high status are most likely to have their chastity guarded before marriage.

Question 41

Laws controlling the behavior of women were not very common.

Question 42

Genital mutilation is often desired by the young girl's mothers.

Question 43

In societies there is no sexual double standard.

Question 44

Married women were, for the large part, allowed to work as they wished from the 18^th century onwards.

Question 45

By 1980, women comprised 50% of the US workforce.

Question 46

Today, approximately 75% of new marriages end in divorce.

Question 47

People older than 40 are more likely to divorce their spouse.

Question 48

In the contemporary US, men prefer wealth and status in their mate.

Question 49

In the contemporary US, men are still the primary breadwinners.

Question 50

Children tend to foment unease and instability in the family.

Question 51

Divorce tends to have negative effects on children.

Question 52

Stepchildren receive less investment than adopted children.

Question 53

A child is more likely to be killed by a stepparent than by their biological parents.

Question 54

Why would parents of the highest castes in 19^th century India kill their daughters?

Question 55

What are the four patterns of descent common in human societies?

Question 56

Give 3 types of residence and describe them.

Question 57

Why do patrilineal societies punish adultery more fiercely than matrilineal societies.

Question 58

What are some ways women's behaviors have been restricted? Give 3 examples.

Question 59

Why might a women wish to kill her child?

Question 60

Why are stepparents more likely to hurt and mistreat their children than the child's biological parents?

Question 61

Which two types of societies have a gift exchange at marriage? What other institutions, if any, do they have in common?

Question 62

Describe the similarities between marriage today and marriage in preindustrial societies.

Question 63

Why was the feminist revolution important? What other revolution(s) followed it?

Question 64

When did the divorce revolution occur in the U.S.? What are some of the factors that promoted the divorce revolution?

Question 65

Why is control of women's sexuality a priority in most human societies? How is this accomplished?