Deck 8: The Family

Question 1

In 2010, married-couple family households in the U.S.A. made up:

A) 25 percent of all households.
B) 12 percent of all households.
C) 48 percent of all households.
D) 90 percent of all households.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What is true of sexual relations among college students today?

A) The prohibition against sexual relations is increasing.
B) The prohibition against sexual relations is decreasing.
C) Sexual relations among college students has not changed in the past 50 years.
D) This is not something social scientists study due to its private nature.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

In the United States the question of the legal status of same sex marriages and families has:

A) created new social, legal and political problems.
B) resolved old cultural issues.
C) become more secretive and less well known in society.
D) declined enormously in the last decade.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

No-fault divorces were introduced in many U.S. states during the:

A) 1780s.
B) 1950s.
C) 1970s.
D) 1890s.

Question 5

The average number of children per family in the U.S. has been:

A) increasing since 1800.
B) dropping most recently.
C) very stable since 1800.
D) constant over the last four generations.

Question 6

A maxim of marriage counselors is that people don't change, or if they do change, it:

A) will be exactly what the other partner wants.
B) will invariably help the marriage.
C) will not be what the other partner wants.
D) will never alter the marriage.

Question 7

Marriage within the kinship or other social group is known as:

A) exogamy.
B) endogamy.
C) polygamy.
D) patriarchy.

Question 8

The number of individuals choosing not to marry and the large number of divorces have created the class called:

A) singles.
B) variables.
C) couples.
D) bigamists.

Question 9

In the United States in 2006 the approximate ratio of divorces to marriages was one divorce for every:

A) 5.8 marriages.
B) 4.3 marriages.
C) 2.0 marriages.
D) 18.0 marriages.

Question 10

The advantage of family selection of mates is that it is more:

A) likely to fulfill economic and social stability goals.
B) likely to save time in child rearing.
C) likely to eliminate weddings.
D) likely to make the best choices.

Question 11

An egalitarian family is:

A) a matriarchy.
B) a patriarchy.
C) a patrilineal family.
D) one with shared control.

Question 12

A group of persons closely related by marriage, blood, or some other bond is called the:

A) horde.
B) troop.
C) family.
D) state.

Question 13

What is true of U.S. dating customs today?

A) Internet sites such as MySpace and Facebook allow people to meet others outside their immediate geographic area.
B) The Internet has had little impact on dating.
C) People seldom date until they are ready to make a marital commitment.
D) Fewer people are cohabitating than ever before.

Question 14

Reasons for desiring more or fewer children:

A) are the same in all types of society.
B) vary in different societies.
C) remain unchanged once established.
D) result in no family variation.

Question 15

Divorce statistics are often used as a measure of:

A) family disorganization.
B) exchange rates.
C) the standard of living.
D) regional culture.

Question 16

The number of mates, selection of mates, family control, and reckoning of descent determine:

A) variations in family patterns.
B) a single family type for all cultures.
C) the two types of family found in all nations.
D) very little about families but much about geography.

Question 17

The family function that primarily involves the need to reproduce is the:

A) political function.
B) educational function.
C) biological function.
D) economic function.

Question 18

In the last twenty years the number of families having no children has been:

A) relatively stable.
B) increasing.
C) decreasing.
D) rapidly decreasing.

Question 19

In the Western world the most common method of reckoning descent is called:

A) unilateral.
B) polyandry.
C) pluralism.
D) bilateral.

Question 20

Marriage between one husband and one wife followed by a dissolution of that marriage and a subsequent marriage between the same husband or wife and another opposite-sex partner is called:

A) cenogamy.
B) dating.
C) serial monogamy.
D) polygamy.

Question 21

Cenogamy is a form of union in which several men are married to one woman.

Question 22

In 2012, the number of unmarried couples living together is about:

A) 40 million.
B) 1.5 million.
C) 10 million.
D) 7.5 million.

Question 23

In modern America, civil unions no longer exist and civil and religious authorities recognize only marriages.

Question 24

Married couples constitute two-thirds of U.S. families.

Question 25

Throughout history the family has been the basic primary human group.

Question 26

A woman's ability to plan her pregnancies has:

A) not changed family life.
B) no relationship to family life.
C) revolutionized family life.
D) changed gender roles but not family life.

Question 27

The transition in the U.S. from an agricultural nation to a mainly urban nation has helped change family life.

Question 28

Polygamy is the term for the marriage of one husband and one wife.

Question 29

Polygamy and same-sex marriages in the U.S. are rejected by all religious faiths.

Question 30

Marriage involves little change in roles.

Question 31

The family has only two functions.

Question 32

Polyandry is the term for the marriage of one wife and two or more husbands.

Question 33

The American family today is:

A) just like its counterpart sixty years ago.
B) less variable than ever before.
C) quite different from its counterpart fifty years ago.
D) not influenced by technology.

Question 34

Latchkey children have their own house key and immediately lock themselves in once inside their homes.

Question 35

The rules governing the choice of mates are the same in all societies.

Question 36

Flexible working hours, infant care, and family leaves for both sexes help the family to:

A) continue unchanged.
B) gradually disappear.
C) cease to exist.
D) stay together.

Question 37

A major reason why the family continues to be a social institution in transition is:

A) its newness.
B) its interdependence with technology.
C) its lack of variation.
D) its unusual lack of functions.

Question 38

An extended family consists of only two generations.

Question 39

The ratio of divorces to marriages has not changed much since 1980.

Question 40

Within the last hundred years family control in the U.S. has gradually shifted toward the partnership form.

Question 41

Family patterns evolve to meet the needs of family functions.

Question 42

What are the four major factors that determine variations in family patterns? Give examples of each.

Question 43

Serious challenges to the family's survival are realities.

Question 44

What are the functions of the family? How are the functions of the family related to variations of family patterns?

Question 45

Why do people get divorced? How is divorce related to family disorganization? What cautions are necessary in understanding the meaning of divorce rates?

Question 46

Today, many children acquire most of their values from films and television.

Question 47

What is the future of the family?

Question 48

Same-sex marriages are now legal in all U.S. states.

Question 49

The number of children that couples are willing to have is smaller now than three generations ago.

Question 50

Same sex marriage is not legal in Canada.

Question 51

There has been a significant decrease in the number of single-parent households.

Question 52

How have social scientists described and explained the family in the United States today? Consider gender roles, dating, sex and singles, and children.

Question 53

The diagnosis of the family unit's imminent death seems premature.

Question 54

The increase in the number of people living together did not continue after the 1970s.

Question 55

For an increasing number of families marriage and having children are not necessarily linked.