Deck 10: Family and the Economy

Question 1

Middle class families' economic troubles are due to their desire for McMansions and expensive consumer goods.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

When men face job loss, it affects their identity and sense of self-worth.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Which statement is least true of the American economy today?

A) Family incomes have stopped growing.
B) Economic stress is felt up and down the economic ladder.
C) High unemployment is likely to continue.
D) High paying jobs are in good supply for people who want to work hard.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

A British research study predicted that the U.S. would become a "high risk, high stress" society.

Question 5

The majority of workers displaced by downsizing and corporate moves will eventually find other work equivalent to their previous jobs.

Question 6

Workers who are hired in part-time or temporary jobs to fill an organizational need are referred to as

A) minimum wage workers.
B) Kelly workers.
C) ad hoc workers.
D) disposable workers.

Question 7

Structural changes in the nation's economy greatly affect family life.

Question 8

Elizabeth Warren and her colleagues found that bankruptcy filings ________ between 1980 and 2005.

A) stayed steady
B) quadrupled
C) doubled
D) decreased

Question 9

Discuss the impact that extensive use of temporary workers would have on American families.

Question 10

Research shows that job loss can have effects on the following:

A) mental and physical health
B) marriage
C) parent-child relationships
D) all of the above

Question 11

Labor secretary Robert Reich estimated that part-time or contingent workers make up about ______ of the existing work force at the time Rubin's study was conducted.

A) one-third
B) one-tenth
C) one-half
D) three-quarters

Question 12

Financial stress in families can negatively impact children's academic performance.

Question 13

The manufacturing sector, which employed well over 26 percent of American workers in 1970 is expected to drop to _______ by the year 2000.

A) 26 percent
B) 15 percent
C) 12.5 percent
D) 7 percent

Question 14

Skolnick cites a study in which children were ___ percent more likely to repeat a grade when the head of a household loses their job.

A) 10
B) 5
C) 15
D) 20

Question 15

Describe the changes in identity and family structure brought on by extended periods of unemployment and/or a significant downsizing in income and status.

Question 16

Describe the reasons for economic insecurity in middle class families.

Question 17

Divorce's impact on the family is discussed much more often than the impact of bankruptcy on families.

Question 18

The use of contingent workers is becoming so common that temporary employment agencies are replacing old permanent placement ones.

Question 19

Discuss the ways in which changes in the job market and the economy have contributed to the problems in American family life since the 1980s.

Question 20

Economic security is still a defining feature of middle class life in the United States.