X - Chp 9 Practice Q's

Question 1

Which term best describes a cohabitating woman and man who maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and have at least one child?
a. an extended family
b. a postmodern family
c. a traditional nuclear family
d. a nuclear family

Answer 1

d. a nuclear family

Question 2

In the postwar years of the 1950s, which perspective defined the traditional nuclear family as ideal?
a. functionalism
b. feminism
c. conflict theory
d. postmodernism

Answer 2

a. functionalism

Question 3

Nilani works as a machinist and his wife Jennifer is a stay-at-home mom, raising their two children and a child for whom they are foster parents. Which type of family is exemplified here?
a. the traditional nuclear family
b. the matriarchal family
c. the nuclear family
d. the extended family

Answer 3

a. the traditional nuclear family

Question 3

Which statement best describes the incidence of nuclear families over time?
a. It is gradually increasing.
b. It is gradually decreasing.
c. It decreased between 1900 and 1945, but then stabilized.
d. It has increased significantly since 1950.

Answer 3

b. It is gradually decreasing.

Question 4

Ivan is the breadwinner in a working-class family, being responsible for the income necessary to look after his wife and three children. Who of the following would think that this was an ideal situation?

a. Wayne, who believes that feminists have the correct point of view

b. Talia, who is a strong individualist	
c. Ruta, who believes that a gendered division of labour creates hierarchies	
d. Signe, who holds a functionalist perspective of the family

Answer 4

d. Signe, who holds a functionalist perspective of the family

Question 5

Friedrich Engels maintained that once men began to build up a concentration of wealth, they became concerned with how to pass that wealth on to their legitimate sons. How did Engels believe men could safely pass their wealth on to their sons?
a. only by allowing women equal rights at work
b. only by creating egalitarian families
c. only by controlling their wives sexually and economically
d. only by shifting from capitalist to socialist economies

Answer 5

c. only by controlling their wives sexually and economically

Question 6

What was the most recent decade in which a Canadian wife could not rent a car, take a loan, or sign a contract without her husband’s permission?
a. 1940s
b. 1950s
c. 1960s
d. 1970s

Answer 6

b. 1950s

Question 7

What is polygamy?
a. a form of marriage where wives have more power than husbands
b. a form of marriage involving more than two spouses
c. marriage between two people who are related by blood
d. the practice in which every adult member of a tribe or village is considered a parent to every child in the tribe or village

Answer 7

b. a form of marriage involving more than two spouses

Question 8

When did it become illegal in Canada for a husband to rape his wife?
a. 1950s
b. 1960s
c. 1970s
d. 1980s

Answer 8

d. 1980s

Question 8

Which sociological perspective views the heterosexual nuclear family as a social institution with a particularly unique role as the foundation of society?
a. functionalist
b. postmodernist
c. symbolic interactionist
d. feminist

Answer 8

a. functionalist

Question 9

Which term best describes the activities of married women in the years following the Second World War?
a. family traditionalists
b. helicopter parenting
c. orgy of domesticity
d. familial domestics

Answer 9

c. orgy of domesticity

Question 10

According to Friedrich Engels, what are the foundations of the nuclear family?
a. biological determinism and family values
b. male control of property and female fidelity
c. male strength and female weakness
d. biology of reproduction and maternal instincts

Answer 10

b. male control of property and female fidelity

Question 11

Which term do feminist sociologists use to denote societies characterized by male dominance and norms justifying that dominance?
a. social stratification
b. matriarchy
c. patriarchy
d. gender inequality

Answer 11

c. patriarchy

Question 12

In 1892, a federal law made it a criminal code offence to sell or advertise any medicine or drug in Canada that prevented conception. In what year did Canada reverse this stance and legalize birth control?
a. 1949
b. 1959
c. 1969
d. 1979

Answer 12

c. 1969

Question 13

In which type of spousal violence are both partners equally likely to engage, regardless of their gender?
a. intimate terrorism
b. common couple violence
c. cohabiting victimization
d. violent resistance

Answer 13

b. common couple violence

Question 14

Which factor has the greatest effect on the long-term well-being of children of divorced parents?
a. a high level of parental conflict
b. a parent being absent
c. a decline in living standards
d. the stigma of being the child of divorced parents

Answer 14

a. a high level of parental conflict

Question 15

In some couples, one partner has a need to control the other, making violent attacks likely, frequent, and severe. Which term refers to this kind of conjugal violence?
a. intimate terrorism
b. assault one
c. aggressive partner violence
d. common couple violence

Answer 15

a. intimate terrorism

Question 16

When was the Divorce Act implemented in Canada?
a. 1948
b. 1958
c. 1968
d. 1978

Answer 16

c. 1968

Question 17

Which of the following is one of the things marital stability depends on today?
a. minimal financial pressures in the household
b. marital satisfaction measures
c. having more children
d. a woman staying home until the children are in school

Answer 17

a. minimal financial pressures in the household

Question 18

Gael, at the age of 67, is raising his 13-year-old son because his girlfriend left him for a younger man. He starts to date 25-year-old Lina, who is the mother of three-year-old twin girls. Twelve months into their relationship, Gael and Lina get married and purchase a home for the five of them to live in. Which statement best describes their arrangement?
a. They’re an intergenerational household.
b. They’re a blended family.
c. They’re a multifamily household.
d. They’re an extended family.

Answer 18

b. They’re a blended family.

Question 19

While researching her family tree, Shira discovered that her great-grandmother who had lived in Toronto, had divorced in 1926 and remarried in 1928. She was surprised because she was under the assumption that divorce was a relatively recent phenomenon. When she located the petition for divorce documents, what reason was given?
a. marriage breakdown
b. adultery
c. mental cruelty
d. irreconcilable differences

Answer 19

b. adultery

Question 20

When were full parental rights extended to same-sex couples in Québec?
a. 2001
b. 2002
c. 2005
d. 2006

Answer 20

b. 2002

Question 21

Previously, lone-parent families were generally a result of death; however, what are they now generally a result of?
a. poverty
b. health
c. choice
d. divorce

Answer 21

d. divorce

Question 22

What level of partnership satisfaction do lesbian couples with children record, compared to lesbian couples without children?
a. a lower level of satisfaction with their partnerships
b. a higher level of satisfaction with their partnerships
c. fluctuating levels of satisfaction with their partnerships
d. the same level of satisfaction with their partnerships

Answer 22

b. a higher level of satisfaction with their partnerships

Question 23

Baljit’s parent is experiencing poverty. Given what you know about the relationship between family type and poverty, what category does Baljit’s parent most likely fit into?
a. single father
b. lesbian parent
c. heterosexual parent
d. single mother

Answer 23

d. single mother

Question 24

Which statement best summarizes the similarities and differences between children who have grown up in homosexual families and those who have grown up in heterosexual families?
a. They are remarkably similar.
b. Concerns about discrimination and “confused” sexual identity are mostly correct.
c. They are similar, and differences tend to favour children who have grown up in homosexual families.
d. Children who have grown up in homosexual families are more likely to experience upward mobility.

Answer 24

a. They are remarkably similar.

Question 25

Which of the following is NOT a criticism of family support policies?
a. It will encourage long-term dependence.
b. Care provided by someone other than a family member is bad for very young children.
c. National economic productivity decreases when family support policies are increased.
d. They are expensive and require high taxes.

Answer 25

c. National economic productivity decreases when family support policies are increased.

Question 26

In Canada, which province is the most “family-friendly” with respect to the number of, and government support for, regulated daycare spaces?
a. Ontario
b. Alberta
c. Quebec
d. Nova Scotia

Answer 26

c. Quebec

Question 27

Canadians who criticize generous family support policies tend to do so because they believe such policies encourage negative trends. Which of the following is an example of one of these trends?
a. increases in daycare costs
b. neglected children
c. welfare dependence
d. an increase in crime

Answer 27

c. welfare dependence