Quiz 1

Front 1

When conducting a study on family structure of Mott students, I used the semester roster of all Mott students and selected every 100th name for my study. In this example, I have avoided bias by selecting ______ sample of students.

Back 1

random

Front 2

In the video clip, A Date With Your Family 1950 American Values, ______ were assigned the role in the family of decorating and cooking.

Back 2

women

Front 3

According to _____ ______, even when talking about family, things are not always what they seem.

Back 3

Peter Berger

Front 4

The U.S. Constitution requires that the population of the country be counted every 10 years resulting in data known as the _____.

Back 4

census

Front 5

According to the sociology video, Qualitative vs Quantitative, when sociologists study family by living with them for a few weeks and writing down their interactions along with asking them interview type questions, they are doing a participant __________ study

Back 5

observation

Front 6

Conflict theorists note that the unpaid labor of ______ benefits men who do not have to pay for these services.

Back 6

women

Front 7

The breadwinner father-stay at home mother model of family was only possible for a short time in the mid-twentieth ________.

Back 7

century

Front 8

A group of people who live and eat separately from others part of a _________ according to the Census Bureau

Back 8

household

Front 9

Although marriage is a part of the institution of the family, marriage licenses are granted by the institution of the ______.

Back 9

state

Front 10

According to the U.S. Census data, the largest change in family structure in the last 40 years has been the reduction in ________ families with children.

Back 10

married

Front 11

One thing we will discover throughout the semester is that there are many kinds of ________.

Back 11

families

Front 12

Family diversity became the new norm when the state and market no longer supported families but individuals This period called the ______ ________ by sociologists.

Back 12

second modernity

Front 13

The Census refers to any one who legally owns or rents a home as a ____________.

Back 13

householder

Front 14

The most common method sociologists use to study families is the _________.

Back 14

survey

Front 15

The divorce rate in Maine increases and decrease with the per capita consumption of margarine. This is a statement _______________ between variables but has nothing to do with the cause of either.

Back 15

correlation

Front 16

When we study the hours men and women spend doing household tasks, the best method to use is the _____ use diary.

Back 16

time

Front 17

You got married before you had any children because you knew your mother expected you to follow her traditional idea of family norms. Your behavior can be explained using _____ ________ theory.

Back 17

symbolic interaction

Front 18

Genealogy is the study of your _________ and family history.

Back 18

ancestry

Front 19

Talcott Parsons suggested that the breadwinner father-stay at home mother model was a natural family structure. The sociological theory that best explains his thinking is the _______ perspective.

Back 19

consensus

Front 20

Because people perceive their cat or dog to be a family member, sociologists refer to this as a _______ family connection.

Back 20

symbolic

Front 21

In the video clip The Changing American Family, sociologist Andrew Cherlin notes that even today, some people cannot _________ that the family has changed even with the increasing diversity in family forms.

Back 21

accept

Front 22

The Baby-Boom generation experienced the rise of rock and roll, the assassination of a US President, the Vietnam War, Watergate, Dessert Storm and 911 and so can be analyzed as the _______ of people.

Back 22

cohort

Front 23

Although she is not technically related to you, you have a very close relationship with your step-mother and consider her part of your family. In this example, your step-mother is part of your _________ family.

Back 23

personal

Front 24

The video clip The Changing American Family, notes that both single parents and gay and lesbian parents are family structures that are on the _________ in the United States.

Back 24

increase

Front 25

C. Wright Mills called our ability to think about the impacts of larger social and historical factors on people the ________ __________.

Back 25

sociological imagination

Front 26

Relying on public funded studies helps to reduce ____ in research.

Back 26

bias

Front 27

Marriage used to be an economic and social union that enhanced the stability of community, divorce rates in this example so divorce was rare Today, marriage is an individual choice based on affection so divorce is more common. __________ theory is the divorce rates in this example.

Back 27

modernity

Front 28

The _________ perspective of family sees men as instrumental and thus occupying the public world of work and women as expressive and thus occupying the private world of home.

Back 28

consensus

Front 29

In the video clip , A Date Your Family-1950 American Values, families had a vast number of _____ that applied to men, women, boys, girls spouses and even siblings!

Back 29

roles

Front 30

Granting of divorce can only be accomplished through the social institution of the _____.

Back 30

state

Front 31

Our personal family begins the process of allowing us to construct our personal ________.

Back 31

identity

Front 32

Sociologists refer to the institution where we live our everyday lives as children, parents, spouses, siblings etc as the _______ arena.

Back 32

family

Front 33

You and our little sister may have an emotional connection, but you are also considered part of a _____ family.

Back 33

legal

Front 34

Conflict theorists note that the breadwinner father-stay at home mother model mostly applied to middle-class, white families as _____ of color or in the working class often had to work outside the home to help support their families.

Back 34

women

Front 35

Family structures include the progression from childhood to adulthood, which must be understood as existing in a social and historical context The theory represented in this statement is the ___ _____ perspective.

Back 35

life course

Front 36

A Date With Your Family-1950 American Values, _____ were assigned the role in family of decorating and cooking.

Back 36

women

Front 37

Referring to a family friend as Auntie is a family tie formed by an _______ connection.

Back 37

emotional

Front 38

When we interview a random sample of married women about why they went to work, we are collecting _________ data.

Back 38

quantitative

Front 39

A study was done in Ypsilanti, Ml that assessed the value of a good pre-school education by following a group of children from age 3 to age 40. The was a ___________ study as it followed children over time.

Back 39

longitudinal

Front 40

According to feminist theory, we learn our initial gender roles as males and females through the process of _________ in the family.

Back 40

socialization

Front 41

According to the Census data, the rate of _______ has fallen below 50% in the United States.

Back 41

marriage

Front 42

According to Cohen, the most contested term in the legal definition of family is the word _________.

Back 42

marriage

Front 43

Throughout most of the 1950s, employers paid men enough to support a family. This level of pay was called the ____ - _____.

Back 43

family-wage

Front 44

Family behavior and household structure contributes to larger population processes in many important ways The ________ perspective best explains this statement.

Back 44

demographic

Front 45

When we use data from the Department of Labor that shows married women are increasing in the paid labor force, we are studying _______ data.

Back 45

quantitative

Front 46

When you studied the pie charts in the Power Point for this chapter and noted the change in family over the last 40 years, you were using a _________ perspective.

Back 46

demographic

Front 47

An important developmental milestone for children when they recognize the members of their __________ family and can distinguish the from strangers.

Back 47

personal

Front 48

Although in our heads, we hold the breadwinner father-stay at home mother as the _______ family structure, in fact it is an ideal that only existed for a short time.

Back 48

traditional

Front 49

Many children that are officially counted as having single mothers actually live with their two biological ________ who are cohabiting.

Back 49

parents

Front 50

The systematic and scientific study of human behavior, social groups and society is known as ________.

Back 50

sociology

Front 51

You do not mind investing time and money in your children's educational future because you know they will take care of you when you are old. This relationship is easily explained using ______ theory.

Back 51

exchange

Front 52

The work that people do to support families and accumulate wealth is part of the ________ institution of society.

Back 52

market

Front 53

In the video clip, A Date Your Family-1950 American Values, children were admonished to avoid making their parents _______.

Back 53

unhappy