Quizzes

Question 1

What is a social institution?

Answer 1

Organize patterns of beliefs and behaviors centered around basic social needs

Question 2

What is an institutional arena?

Answer 2

A social space in which relationships between people and common positions are governed by acceptable rules of interaction

Question 3

What does it mean to think about the family as an institutional arena?

Answer 3

Family arena - Institutional arena where people practice intimacy, childbearing, socialization, and care work.

Question 4

* Today about \_\_\_\_% of the public approves of marriages between whites and blacks. *
A. 40-50
B. 50-60
C. 60-70
D. 70-80

Answer 4

C. 60-70

Question 5

Rates of intermarriage between whites and blacks were higher in the 1850s than in the 1950s.
A. True
B. False

Answer 5

A. True

Question 6

Today, around 7% of marriages are between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another.
A. True
B. False

Answer 6

B. False

Question 7

Today, black men are twice as likely to marry interracially than black women.
A. True
B. False

Answer 7

A. True

Question 8

______________ is the process by which members of minority groups change their own ways to conform to those of the dominant culture.

Answer 8

Assimilation

Question 9

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ refers to a person's biological maleness or femaleness.
A. Gender
B. Sex type
C. Sex
D. Sexuality

Answer 9

C. Sex

Question 10

The social realization of biological sex refers to which of the following?
A. Sex
B. Gender identity
C. Sexual identity
D. Gender

Answer 10

C. Sexual identity

Question 11

Children play an active role in their gender socialization.
A. True
B. False

Answer 11

A. True

Question 12

Which education category is most opposed to a man taking his wife’s name?
A. High school or less
B. Some college
C. College or more

Answer 12

A. High school or less

Question 13

There are racial differences in views regarding name change.
A. True
B. False

Answer 13

A. True

Question 14

Name and discuss three separate ways in which gender influences life within the family arena.

Answer 14

Economy
education
socialization.. etc.

Question 15

Forming a long-term relationship with someone inside a certain social group is called \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
A. Exogamy
B. Equity
C. Endogamy
D. Homophily

Answer 15

C. Endogamy

Question 16

Over the life course, most Americans get married.
A. True
B. False

Answer 16

A. True

Question 17

* Approximately \_\_\_\_\_\_\_% of U.S. adults marry someone of the same religion. *
A. 50-60
B. 60-70
C. 70-80
D. 80-90

Answer 17

D. 80-90

Question 18

According to the CCF brief “Does Premarital Cohabitation Raise Risk of Divorce?”, premarital cohabitation does raise the risk of divorce.
A. True
B. False

Answer 18

B. False

Its age, to early raises the risk

Question 19

Married individuals tend to be better off than single or divorced people in which of the following areas?
A. physical health
B. emotional health
C. economic well-being
D. all of the above

Answer 19

D. all of the above

Question 20

Give a brief explanation of the divorce rate pattern since the 1950s.

Answer 20

spike then decreasing

Question 21

Give a brief explanation of some of the effects of divorce on children.

Answer 21

some behavioral issues, but Long term no different

Question 22

Describe the (social) factors that cause some women to have more children than others.

Answer 22

health care, Eco, gender equality

Question 23

Define the term “total fertility rate”.

Answer 23

number of children born to the average woman in her lifetime

Question 24

What is the “double-bind” that women face?

Answer 24

Guilt Gap

Question 25

``` 1. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides ______ paid weeks off for all full-time and part-time workers. A. 0 B. 4 C. 12 D. 14 ```

Answer 25

A. 0

Question 26

``` Yardwork, shopping, paying bills; these are all examples of which type of domestic work? A. care work B. housework C. market work D. consumption work ```

Answer 26

D. consumption work

Question 27

``` Today, women do about _____ times more housework than men. A. 2 B. 2.5 C. 4 D. 5 ```

Answer 27

B. 2.5

Question 28

Give a brief description of the ideology of "separate spheres".

Answer 28

Public sphere is where the market work occurs outside the home, more prestige and social value. Private sphere is where the care work and the unpaid labor happens

Question 29

A man's social class has a strong and clear effect on the amount of housework they perform. A. True B. False

Answer 29

B. False

Question 30

List and briefly discuss three ways that religion as a social institution influences the family arena.

Answer 30

Education, structure, socialization etc