Deck 13: Stepfamilies

Question 1

Identify an accurate statement about marriages in Asia.

A)Marriages arranged by parents are common in Japan today.
B)Parent-arranged marriages with the children's consent have increased in India.
C)Majority of girls in Bangladesh marry at the age of 30.
D)Love marriages are banned in China.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following is true of the effect of the postmodern ideals in Japan?

A)Unmarried Japanese women in their twenties are more negative about marriage than are their American counterparts.
B)Younger Japanese men and women are less supportive of the idea of cohabitation than their American counterparts.
C)Divorce rates in Japan are at the lowest.
D)Percentage of women who cohabit has declined rapidly since the 1970s.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

In which of the following countries has early marriage been typically uncommon?

A)Bangladesh
B)India
C)Brazil
D)Mali

Answer 3

C

Question 4

In most cases, when young girls marry older men:

A)they are at lesser risk of domestic violence.
B)they are at a higher risk of medical complications for their first births.
C)they acquire greater power in their marriages and have great authority in making decisions.
D)they are most likely to dominate their mothers-in-law and their husbands.

Question 5

Which of the following statements is true about the neo-traditional style of family life?

A)It is most common among college-educated individuals in the United States.
B)It is primarily based on the breadwinner-homemaker model of marriage.
C)It makes the relations between husbands and wives less egalitarian.
D)It discourages cohabitation among unmarried couples.

Question 6

Which of the following statements is true about the trends in marriage?

A)The mean age at marriage for women in the world as a whole has decreased from 23 to 21.
B)The difference between the average ages at marriage for men and women in Bangladesh has traditionally been low.
C)The percentage of adolescent girls who are married has risen sharply in all of the countries.
D)Teenage marriage in several large nations has declined.

Question 7

Which of the following statements is true about the trends in marital dissolution in the United States?

A)The percentage of widowhood was much higher in the late nineteenth century than during the late twentieth century.
B)The percentage of women who were widowed or divorced was the highest during the 1960s.
C)Divorce rates for young women were higher in the early twentieth century than during the late twentieth century.
D)Marital dissolution was more common in the past than during the late twentieth century.

Question 8

In the context of family change, Goode accurately predicted that:

A)computer-based communication would move families toward a conjugal family system.
B)globalization would occur at a rapid pace.
C)companionate marriage based on romantic love would become extinct in all types of societies.
D)parents would most likely lose their authority over their children's family lives.

Question 9

Which of the following statements is true about family patterns in Latin America?

A)Early marriage has predominantly been common in Latin America.
B)Consensual unions have long been common in Latin America.
C)Signs of postmodern family were absent in Latin America before the transition to the modern conjugal family system.
D)Cohabitation has declined rapidly in Latin America.

Question 10

In the context of transnational families, the cash payments sent to family members in the country of origin are called ________.

A)remittances
B)family wages
C)rebates
D)chargebacks

Question 11

Which of the following statements is true about the modernization theory?

A)It contends that the Western model of development is a highly ineffective model of national development.
B)It states that the families in underdeveloped countries of the world will eventually transition in a fashion similar to the transition that occurred in the West.
C)It contends that the modernization of the underdeveloped countries will happen once these countries abandon the association of conjugal family system with progress and economic development.
D)It states that the Western model of development destabilizes the economy and social organization of a country.

Question 12

Which of the following statements is true about developmental idealism?

A)It states that countries should aspire to the social organization values of the developing countries.
B)It advocates that the ideals of Europe are superior to those set by the West.
C)It states that the ideals set by all developing and underdeveloped countries are superior to those set by the developed countries.
D)It advocates that the economic system of the Western developed countries should be followed by other countries.

Question 13

Which of the following statements is true about marriage ages?

A)Marriage ages were unusually low during the baby-boom years of the 1950s.
B)In the global south, low ages at marriage have long been rare.
C)The typical ages at which young adults enter first unions have rapidly declined in many regions of the world.
D)Marriage ages in India for adults were typically high in 1970.

Question 14

How have family patterns in the United States changed?

A)They have become more diverse since the last half-century.
B)They have converged to a conjugal family system.
C)They have seen a reduction in same-sex and cohabiting couples.
D)They have seen an increase in the percentage of widowhood.

Question 15

Which of the following is an argument stated by the functionalist theorists of the conjugal family system?

A)The conjugal family is ideal in industrialized societies where salary workers can move geographically to the best opportunities located in the market.
B)The conjugal family system weakens the dominance of breadwinner-homemaker marriages in the United States.
C)The geographical movement of families is difficult in urbanized societies as both husbands and wives have equal power in deciding the movement.
D)The conjugal family system works best when wives earn more than their husbands.

Question 16

Identify an accurate statement about arranged marriages.

A)They are extremely common in Japan today.
B)They are marriages in which parents have little power in deciding their children's spouses or partners.
C)They have nearly disappeared in Asia.
D)They are the most common form of marriages in North America.

Question 17

Identify an accurate statement about hybrid marriage.

A)It is rapidly disappearing in India and other Asian cultures.
B)It is a type of marriage in which young adults and parents work together to find marriage partners.
C)It was the basis of the conjugal family system in Canada.
D)It was popular in Latin America and Central American nations.

Question 18

How do the Japanese differ from the Americans in their family patterns?

A)Most Japanese people believe that it's unacceptable for a woman to have children born outside of marriage.
B)A majority of Japanese adults prefer sending their older parents to a nursing home.
C)Unmarried Japanese women in their twenties are more positive about marriage than their American counterparts.
D)Japanese adults believe that older parents should take care of themselves.

Question 19

Which of the following statements is true about cohabitation?

A)It was popular in India during the 1950s.
B)It has declined rapidly in Asian nations.
C)It has long been common in Latin America.
D)It was common in the United States during the era of industrialization.

Question 20

Which of the following is part of the global south?

A)Soviet states
B)Canadian provinces
C)Southern European countries
D)Asian nations

Question 21

The percentage of women who ever cohabited doubled in Japan from the generation that was in its twenties in the 1970s to the generation that was in its twenties in the 1990s.

Question 22

The spread of mass education to the low-income nations has undermined parental control over decisions about marriage and childbearing.

Question 23

What were the effects of postmodern ideals around the world?

Question 24

According to United Nations data, the mean (average) age at marriage for women in the world as a whole has decreased from 23 to 21 since the 1970s.

Question 25

Advocates of the modernization theory associated the conjugal family system with progress and economic development.

Question 26

Goode accurately predicted the advent of globalization that would affect family patterns in the world.

Question 27

What is modernization theory, and what are its basic assumptions?

Question 28

In India, marriages arranged by parents without the consent of their children have increased.

Question 29

What is globalization of production, and how has it affected family life across the world?

Question 30

It now appears that companionate marriage has spread even in nations that aren't very industrialized.

Question 31

Americans regard the tendency of Japanese adults to park their ailing parents in nursing homes as callous and uncaring.

Question 32

Explain the emergence of transnational families.

Question 33

Explain the role of media in shaping social norms across nations.

Question 34

How has parental control changed over the course of the last century?

Question 35

In the United States, most families have converged to the conjugal family system.

Question 36

Explain the concepts of love marriage and hybrid marriage.

Question 37

What are the changing trends in marriages across the world?

Question 38

What were the predictions made by Goode on family patterns, and how accurate were they?

Question 39

What is the global south, and what are the family patterns in the global south?