Test 1

Question 1

The study of ancestry and family history.

Answer 1

genealogy

Question 2

Groups of related people, bound by connections that are biological, legal, or emotional

Answer 2

families

Question 3

The people to whom we feel related and who we expect to define us as members of their family as well.

Answer 3

personal family

Question 4

A group of individuals related by birth, marriage, or adoption.

Answer 4

legal family

Question 5

A periodic count of people in a population and their characteristics, usually performed as an official government function.

Answer 5

census

Question 6

A group of people that lives and eats separately from other groups

Answer 6

household

Question 7

A social space in which relations between people in common positions are governed by accepted rules of interaction

Answer 7

institutional arena

Question 8

The institutional arena where people practice intimacy, childbearing and socialization, and caring work

Answer 8

family arena

Question 9

The institutional arena where, through political means, behavior is legally regulated, violence is controlled, and resources are redistributed

Answer 9

state

Question 10

The institutional arena where labor for pay, economic exchange, and wealth accumulation take place

Answer 10

market

Question 11

A perspective that projects an image of society as the collective expression of shared norms and values

Answer 11

consensus perspective

Question 12

An employed father, a nonemployed mother, and their children

Answer 12

breadwinner-homemaker family

Question 13

The view that opposition and conflict define a given society and are necessary for social evolution

Answer 13

conflict perspective

Question 14

A theory that seeks to understand and ultimately reduce inequality between men and women

Answer 14

feminist theory

Question 15

The process by which individuals internalize elements of the social structure in their own personalities

Answer 15

socialization

Question 16

The theory that individuals or groups with different resources, strengths, and weaknesses enter into mutual relationships to maximize their own gains

Answer 16

exchange theory

Question 17

A theory concerned with the ability of humans to see themselves through the eyes of others and to enact social roles based on others’ expectations

Answer 17

symbolic interactionism

Question 18

A theory of the historical emergence of the individual as an actor in society and how individuality changed personal and institutional relations

Answer 18

modernity theory

Question 19

The amount necessary for a male earner to provide subsistence for his wife and children without their having to work for pay

Answer 19

family wage

Question 20

The study of how family behavior and household structures contribute to larger population processes

Answer 20

demographic perspective

Question 21

The study of the family trajectories of individuals and groups as they progress through their lives, in social and historical context.

Answer 21

life course perspective

Question 22

A group of people who experience an event together at the same point in time

Answer 22

cohort

Question 23

The tendency to impose previously held views on the collection and interpretation of facts

Answer 23

bias

Question 24

A research method in which identical questions are asked of many different people and their answers gathered into one large data file

Answer 24

sample survey

Question 25

A research method in which the same people are interviewed repeatedly over a period of time

Answer 25

longitudinal surveys

Question 26

Surveys that collect data on how people spend their time during a sample period, such as a single day or week

Answer 26

time use studies

Question 27

Data collections large enough to require special computing resources, and complex enough to require customized computer applications

Answer 27

big data

Question 28

A married couple living with their own (usually biological) children and no extended family members

Answer 28

nuclear family

Question 29

Marriage between a man and a woman

Answer 29

heterogamy

Question 30

Marriage between two people of the same sex

Answer 30

homogamy

Question 31

The system of men's control over property and fathers' authority over all family members

Answer 31

patriarchy

Question 32

A legal doctrine that lasted until the late nineteenth century, under which wives were incorporated into their husbands' citizenship

Answer 32

coverture

Question 33

Family households in which relatives beyond parents and their children live together

Answer 33

extended families

Question 34

The household formed by one grown child remaining in the family home with his or her parents

Answer 34

stem family

Question 35

The mate selection process in which couples begin a relationship with supervised contact in public, then proceed to additional dates in the woman's home and then to marriage if the parents approve

Answer 35

courtship

Question 36

The cultural doctrine under which women were to work at home, to make it a sanctuary from the industrial world in which their husbands worked for pay

Answer 36

separate spheres

Question 37

A family system in which each person has only one spouse. nuclear family: A married couple living with their own (usually biological) children and no extended family members

Answer 37

monogamy

Question 38

A family system in which one person has more than one spouse, usually one man and multiple women

Answer 38

polygamy

Question 39

An ideal type of family characterized by the mutual affection, equality, and comradeship of its members.

Answer 39

companionship family

Question 40

A view of marriage as a companionship, a friendship, and a romance, rather than as a practical platform for cooperation and survival

Answer 40

companionate marriage

Question 41

The mate selection process in which young adults spend time with a variety of partners before making a long-term commitment

Answer 41

dating

Question 42

The amount necessary for a male earner to provide subsistence for his wife and children without their having to work for pay

Answer 42

family wage

Question 43

The period of high birth rates in the United States between 1946 and 1964

Answer 43

baby boom