Deck 5: Courtship and Marriage

Question 1

Which of the following is NOT characteristic of what holds an institutional marriage together?

A) romantic love
B) forces of law
C) tradition
D) religious belief

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Briefly discuss the changes in American marriage. How have marriage ideals changed for Americans today?

Answer 2

not answered

Question 3

Which of the following is a weakness of the marriage studies carried out by the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley?

A) Longitudinal studies are not rich in data.
B) The study did not include observational data.
C) Too many couples dropped out of the study.
D) The research on older couples is outdated.

Answer 3

The study did not include observational data.

Question 4

The United States tends to be more open to gay and lesbian partnerships than other developed countries.

Question 5

Joe is a 25-year-old Caucasian male from a working class background. How might his family life be different than if he were living in the 1940s?

Question 6

The sociologist Jessie Bernard argued that every marriage contains two marriages, the

A) husband's and the wife's.
B) positive and the negative.
C) insider's and the outsider's.
D) individual's and the society's.

Question 7

Describe the effects of class and racial-ethnic divergence on marriage today.

Question 8

In Arlene Skolnick's research, happy spouses did not report complaints or irritations about their spouses.

Question 9

According to the text, which country is among those to have legalized same sex marriage?

A) Belgium
B) Mexico
C) Germany
D) Russia

Question 10

The institution of marriage is less valued today than it was in the 1950's.

Question 11

Between the 1950s and the 1970s, American attitudes towards marriage changed dramatically as part of what scholars have called

A) a marriage transition.
B) the "me" generation.
C) a "psychological revolution"
D) the marriage "revolution"

Question 12

The Census Bureau estimates that about ___ percent of Americans will eventually marry.

A) 50
B) 75
C) 30
D) 90

Question 13

In 2004, which US jurisdiction legalized same sex marriage?

A) California
B) New York
C) New Jersey
D) Massachusetts

Question 14

The median age for marriage in 1890 was ____ for men and ___ for women

A) 18 & 26
B) 21 & 20
C) 26 & 22
D) 29 & 20

Question 15

Couples today have much lower expectations about marriage than their counterparts in the 1950s.

Question 16

Birth rates for unmarried women have fallen more slowly than those of married women.

Question 17

A half-century ago, the family structures of poor and non-poor children was that most lived in two-parent families.

Question 18

Despite the drop in marriage and the rise in cohabitation, there has been no explosion of non-marital births in the United States.

Question 19

Today's unmarried young adults are more likely to be in which living situations?

A) with parents
B) independently in an apartment
C) with extended family
D) with family friends

Question 20

Which of the following is NOT one of the "four horsemen of the apocalypse" described by psychologist John Gottman?

A) criticism
B) contempt
C) active listening
D) defensiveness

Question 21

Stressful occupations like police work can lead to high rates of divorce.

Question 22

John Gottman and his colleagues found that people can be happily married even if they fight a lot.

Question 23

What factors have scholars found in understanding whether marriages will succeed or fail?

Question 24

Describe the situation of marriage in contemporary society. Is marriage an institution in decline?

Question 25

Compare couples expectations of marriage today to their counterparts in the 1950s.

Question 26

Liberal social critics believe that marriage is a dying institution in American society.