Deck 10: Intimate Life

Question 1

This nonwhite group suffered the most from a systematic attack on the institution of family.

A) Japanese Americans
B) African Americans
C) Native Americans
D) Mexican Americans
E) Chinese Americans

Answer 1

African Americans

Question 2

Sociologist Orlando Patterson found which of the following as a feature of the reproductive strategies of slave men in the United States?

A) to leave progeny that would survive to manhood
B) to have children to help in one's work
C) control over resources played heavily on decisions to have a child
D) to have children to help the mother's work
E) to build a strong family unit to stay together

Answer 2

to leave progeny that would survive to manhood

Question 3

Sterilization became the most rapidly growing form of birth control during the 1970s, and many Southern black women were sterilized without consent. By what number did the amount of sterilizations increase between 1970 and 1980?

A) 15,000
B) 40,000
C) 75,000
D) 125,000
E) 500,000

Answer 3

500,000

Question 4

What name do we give to laws which outlaw interracial marriage and sex?

A) race mixing laws
B) anti-miscegenation laws
C) sodomy laws
D) gay-marriage laws
E) none of these

Question 5

Which of the following events in the United States during the twentieth century helped to remake the family and erode parental influence over children?

A) the Great Depression
B) Vietnam War
C) World War I
D) Watergate Scandal
E) the roaring '20s

Question 6

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional in which of the following cases?

A) Perez v. Sharp
B) Kirby v. Kirby
C) Pace v. Alabama
D) Loving v. Virginia
E) Baker v. Nelson

Question 7

In 1958, 96% of whites disapproved of interracial marriage, but by 1997, that percentage dropped to what percentage?

A) 80%
B) 62%
C) 51%
D) 33%
E) 12%

Question 8

How many states in the union have added amendments to their constitutions banning gay marriage?

A) 5
B) 12
C) 26
D) 34
E) 41

Question 9

The repackaging of the problem of racial inequality from one based upon systemic racial domination to one based in dysfunctional families first appeared during which U.S. President's speech?

A) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
B) John Kennedy
C) Lyndon Johnson
D) Richard Nixon
E) Ronald Reagan

Question 10

What was the name of the report published that believed most of the problems facing African Americans were caused by a "tightening tangle of pathology"and the center is the weakness of the family structure?

A) Goldwater Bulletin
B) Moynihan Report
C) Underwood Doctrine
D) Byrd Report
E) Taft Bulletin

Question 11

Individual-level explanations as well as individual-level solutions are insufficient because they fail to account for the country's long legacy of which of the following?

A) black supremacy
B) institutional racism
C) one-time period of discrimination
D) can-do spirit
E) grit, determination, and good luck

Question 12

In 1975, over 60% of white women between the ages of 20 and 24 were married and in 1998 the percentage dropped to 32%. In 1975, 50% of black women the same age were married; what percentage were married in 1998?

A) 47%
B) 42%
C) 32%
D) 22%
E) 15%

Question 13

Which of the following women are the least likely to marry compared to other groups?

A) Asian
B) Native American
C) African American
D) Mexican
E) Eastern European

Question 14

Which of the following explanations are provided by your textbook in regard to racial variation in marriage rates?

A) blackening of America's prison boom
B) racialized labor market disadvantage
C) Latino familism
D) white dominant image of feminine beauty
E) all of these

Question 15

Which of the following groups is the least likely to intermarry?

A) African American
B) Asian
C) whites
D) Native American
E) Mexican American

Question 16

When researchers asked Asian men in interracial marriages about Asian women, which of the following was considered part of a "negative dynamic"in their answers?

A) women were workaholics
B) women were too serious about relationships
C) women not vivacious
D) women too laden with Asian baggage
E) all of these

Question 17

Which of the following reasons does your textbook provide for why racial domination remains even if people are increasingly multiracial?

A) multiracial people and interracial relationships are new
B) racial domination can shape shift and adjust to demographic change
C) interracial marriage accounts for a large percentage of marriages
D) because there is a conspiracy afoot involving only certain races
E) more citizens are enrolling in sociology courses at their local college

Question 18

When one begins to perform cultural labor, which of the following requirements needs to be met?

A) trying to adopt another perspective on the world
B) staying within your comfort zone
C) stagnation of your cultural competence
D) imposing your culture upon others
E) performing ethnocentrism

Question 19

Social scientists have found which of the following contributes to a higher risk of divorce?

A) large age gap between the couple
B) different degrees of educational attainment
C) conflicting views on gender roles
D) socioeconomic differences
E) all of these

Question 20

Which of the following groups have the highest rate of out-of-wedlock births?

A) whites
B) Asians
C) Latinos
D) African Americans
E) Native Americans

Question 21

A little over 1% of white children have incarcerated dads, but how many black children have a dad in jail?

A) 125,000
B) 250,000
C) 500,000
D) 750,000
E) over a million

Question 22

Which of the following is a major consequence of single motherhood?

A) decreases chance for graduating from high school
B) decreases likelihood of marrying in the future
C) children of single parent less likely to be healthy
D) children of single parent more likely to have behavioral problems
E) all of these

Question 23

The idea that the family should not be dominated by the husband is quite new in the United States.

Question 24

The idea that the husband is the breadwinner and mom stays at home having children, mopping floors, and making food is not natural or timeless but originated in America's Puritan past.

Question 25

Slaves employed as nannies were not allowed to breast feed white owners' children for fear of contaminating the child.

Question 26

Once emancipated, black men stopped their reproductive strategy of populating the earth with as many offspring as possible.

Question 27

After emancipation, middle-class black families began to adopt the white model of family government, creating new tensions within the family.

Question 28

While on the East Coast, black and white marriages were outlawed, on the West Coast, Asian and white marriages were legal and okay.

Question 29

After the fall of slavery, interracial relationships began to increase significantly.

Question 30

The sheer scale and importance of the World War Two mobilization and mission placed immense social constraints on gay men and women involved in the effort.

Question 31

Moynihan's thesis in his report on African American families was the pathology of matriarchy - that black female-headed households were to blame for racial inequalities.

Question 32

Second Shift refers to all the unpaid housework and childcare working women perform after they get home from their paid jobs.

Question 33

The reason marriage rates are lower for certain groups are due to the fact that most of these couples just choose to cohabitate with one another instead of getting married.

Question 34

Mexican girls are socialized to become wives and mothers, and less emphasis is placed on work or school roles.

Question 35

Hispanic men are advantaged relative to black men when it comes to marriage due to their higher rates of employment compared to black men.

Question 36

If a black man dates a white woman, he is accused of selling out; but this "punishment"does not occur if a black woman dates a white man.

Question 37

Only a positive dynamic can drive an interracial relationship.

Question 38

Psychological research has shown that biracial children suffer tremendously more emotionally during their childhood than children who share race with their parents.

Question 39

If we are all multiracial, then this is the key to breeding racial domination out of our society.

Question 40

The immigrant process-which can be demanding, fracturing, and all-consuming-unravels a good number of families.

Question 41

Social researchers have shown black couples exhibit greater spousal dissimilarity than nonblack couples in key areas which increase the risk for divorce.

Question 42

At least since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, single mothers have been stereotyped as immoral, inner-city black delinquents who have more children in order to collect bigger welfare checks.

Question 43

Several scholars suggest that people, who are systematically denied social status in business or academic worlds, try to find it in the home through their roles as parents.

Question 44

Most of the world's peoples are poor, and much poorer than African Americans, yet do not suffer the marital and familial problems that African Americans do.

Question 45

Drawing upon data and arguments presented in your chapter, explain why the question oftenraised, "Where were the parents at?"is often an inadequate question and presumed answer to many social problems occurring.

Question 46

Discuss the "family government"model of your own family. Does it adhere to the seemingly "traditional"mode of family government in the United States? Explain what effects the current economic climate in the United States may have on the current forms of family government.

Question 47

Write an essay explaining the multiple ways a history of enslavement continues to affect contemporary African American families. Be specific in your answer and draw upon any personal experiences to also support the essay.

Question 48

Define the Moynihan report and how its conclusions continue to affect the public's consciousness regarding economics, race, and the African American family.

Question 49

Define the concept of double consciousness and how it exists for some groups and not for others. Provide relevant personal experiences from either yourself or friends about dealing with this consciousness.

Question 50

Discuss the similarities between the anti-miscegenation laws which existed in the country and today's state amendments regarding bans on same-sex marriage. Also include the similarities between how people think about interracial marriages and same-sex marriages.

Question 51

Write an essay discussing the complexities surrounding the concept of "racial authenticity."Use real life experiences from either your own life or a friend's regarding how difficult it can be navigate an "authentic"identity.

Question 52

Discuss the sexual division of labor both inside and outside the home. Explain how this division of labor not only differs between genders but also along racial lines.

Question 53

Drawing upon data provided in the chapter, discuss the racial differences in marriage rates today in the United States. Discuss how a balance between socializing forces and individual choices help to provide us with a richer understanding of the lives of couples, new parents, and children.

Question 54

Define cultural labor and discuss the amount of it you have performed so far during your life? How has your hometown helped or hindered the amount of labor you have performed so far? What role has your immediate family played in this labor?