Deck 3: Families Throughout History

Question 1

Jose and Toni Ann have been married for 18 years.Jose is the head of the house in their Mexican American family.They are very protective of their teenage girls,but give their teenage boys more freedom and leeway.Their family demonstrates the long tradition of ________ in the Mexican American community.

A)compadres
B)chauvinism
C)familism
D)machismo

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which research method is likely to be the best one to piece together the history of family life.

A)Family experiments
B)Participant observation
C)Family reconstitution
D)Focus group

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following statements about slavery in the United States is TRUE?

A)The first Africans brought over to the United States were enslaved for a specified amount of time,and then were "free" and able to marry and purchase their own land.
B)By 1680,the slave trade was well under way,with over 1.2 million Africans enslaved and brought to the United States.
C)Slave owners did not consider marriage to be important for enslaved people; owners discouraged slave marriages.
D)Prior to the Civil War,there were approximately 50,000 free African Americans in the North,and they were allowed to vote,attend integrated schools and churches,and hold any job,but this was not the case for free African Americans in the South.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

A key concern fueling the abolition movement in the early nineteenth century involved ideas about

A)crime.
B)religion.
C)family.
D)gender.

Question 5

Among the Romans,a landowner at the top of the stratification system was called a/an

A)primogeniture.
B)bundlers.
C)patrician.
D)empire.

Question 6

Kua,a sociology professor,has assigned students the task of interviewing their living family members to obtain a complete history of significant family events.Dr.Kua has assigned a(n)

A)family reconstitution.
B)ethnography.
C)aggregate register.
D)familography.

Question 7

Which of the following describes why family sociologists look at the past?

A)Social structure and families are unrelated.
B)Current family issues are related to past events.
C)Cultural backgrounds are not necessary to understand families.
D)Families' issues are influenced only by current conditions.

Question 8

In early colonial America,Matthew is courting Laura and allowed to spend the night in Laura's bed.This is because of a practice known as

A)boarding.
B)bundling.
C)cohabitating.
D)familism.

Question 9

Compared to parents today,parents in colonial America were relatively strict and emotionally distant.What factor best accounts for this?

A)Infant and child mortality rates were very high.
B)Families were more religious than they are today.
C)There was a surplus of women in Colonial America.
D)It was common for husbands or wives to marry two or three times because of high death rates.

Question 10

In most of human history,most people lived in societies with subsistence economies. Which of the following characterize a subsistence economy?

A)There was a small surplus of food and other resources,and it was generally given to the men.
B)There was a small surplus of food and other resources,and it was generally given to the women.
C)There was a small surplus of food and other resources,and it was generally given to the elderly.
D)There was no surplus of food or other resources.

Question 11

Which of the following statements about early Native American societies is FALSE?

A)Most Native Americans lived in tribal societies based on lineages,and these ranged from hunting-gathering groups to larger groups using sophisticated horticultural methods.
B)Young women may have married soon after reaching puberty,around ages 12-15,whereas young men were several years older.
C)When European settlers arrived,there were nearly18 million natives with diverse customs,speaking about 300 different languages.
D)About one-third of the tribes were matriarchies.

Question 12

Which of the following statements about industrialization is FALSE?

A)Immigrants came to the United States from all over the world,but especially from Europe.
B)Industrialization transformed an economy from a system-based on small family-based agriculture to one of large industrial capital.
C)Most jobs were not categorized and separated by sex because all labor was needed for all jobs.
D)During the early part of the Industrial Revolution,families were often separated because men moved to urban areas in search of work,leaving the rest of the family behind.

Question 13

Choosing compadres for their children demonstrates Mexican Americans focus on

A)gender equality.
B)individualism.
C)matriarchy.
D)extended family.

Question 14

Why were Native Americans called "Indians"?

A)The Native Americans had darker skin than most Europeans.
B)Christopher Columbus erroneously thought he had found India.
C)In the 1500s,Spaniards used the word "Indian" as slang for something or someone unusual.
D)No one today knows where the term originated.

Question 15

About 7,000-10,000 years ago,humans discovered the advantages of staying in one place to plant and cultivate crops to supplement the food obtained by hunting and gathering.About 3,000 years ago,humans began to use animals to pull plows.These advances brought what significant change?

A)Social inequality decreased
B)Group size decreased
C)Kinship lineages became important
D)Families were more social with one another and there was less isolation

Question 16

Max Weber suggested that in more complex societies

A)the division of labor becomes more specialized for increased efficiency.
B)families take over many of the functions that were previously done by outsiders.
C)the number of elderly begins to decline.
D)the likelihood of suicide declines.

Question 17

Family life changed considerably in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries because of two critical factors: industrialization and

A)slavery.
B)immigration.
C)arranged marriage.
D)familism.

Question 18

Tim firmly believes his wife should stay home and care for the children rather than work outside the home.He feels it is his job to work and bring home the income.Tim believes in

A)discrimination.
B)primogeniture.
C)separate spheres.
D)declaration of sentiment.

Question 19

Families in early Europe engaged in the practice of leaving property and wealth only to the eldest son. This is known as

A)primogeniture.
B)ethnography.
C)patrician.
D)family subsistence.

Question 20

In which society would you find the least segregated division of labor between husbands and wives?

A)Agricultural
B)Hunting and gathering
C)Horticultural
D)Early European

Question 21

How do Americans feel about illegal immigration?

A)Less than half of Americans support the policy that began under President Obama allowing so-called "Dreamers" to stay in the United States.
B)Most Americans support building a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border.
C)Americans are very concerned about illegal immigration and say that it is one of the most important issues for President Trump.
D)Rather than mass deportations,Americans are far more likely to support a path to citizenship for those who are already here.

Question 22

What was the consequence of World War II on marriage?

A)The age of marriage dipped considerably.
B)Fewer people got married.
C)Divorce rates rose considerably.
D)Fewer married women worked.

Question 23

Which of the following statements about immigration is TRUE?

A)Data on the birth origin of the U.S.population were first collected in the 1790 Census.That year,there were 6.8 million immigrants in the United States,which represented almost 20% of the total population.
B)While earlier waves of immigrants came primarily from Europe,today's immigrants come disproportionately from Mexico,Central America,and Asia.
C)The vast majority of immigrants have come to the United States legally.
D)Overall,most scholars believe that illegal immigration is a drain on the U.S.economy because they take jobs away from native-born residents and do not pay taxes.

Question 24

Susan B.Anthony is famous primarily for

A)helping women get the right to vote.
B)helping slaves become free.
C)encouraging laws against immigration.
D)writing the book,The Jungle,which exposed dangerous conditions in the meat packing industry.

Question 25

Which of the following fits the idea of companionate family?

A)Marrying for love
B)Marrying for money
C)Arranged marriage
D)Kinship marriage