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Alice, aged 7, lives in a private home with her parents, her grandmother, and her aunt. Alice's family is an example of a(n): |
| | A) | nuclear family |
| | B) | dysfunctional family |
| | C) | extended family |
| | D) | polygynous family |
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Some observers, noting the high rate of divorce in the United States, have suggested that the most accurate description for the form that monogamy takes in this country is: |
| | A) | functional monogamy |
| | B) | communal monogamy |
| | C) | serial monogamy |
| | D) | regressive monogamy |
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According to anthropologist George Murdock, the most common type of polygamy is: |
| | A) | polygyny |
| | B) | polyandry |
| | C) | serial polygamy |
| | D) | matriarchy |
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Which system of descent is followed in the United States? |
| | A) | matrilineal |
| | B) | patrilineal |
| | C) | unilateral |
| | D) | bilateral |
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Which of the following theorists described the family as the ultimate source of social inequality because of its role in the transfer of power, property, and privilege? |
| | A) | Friedrich Engels |
| | B) | Talcott Parsons |
| | C) | Margaret Mead |
| | D) | George Murdock |
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Which of the following is not a function of the family discussed by William Ogburn? |
| | A) | providing of social status |
| | B) | reproduction |
| | C) | economic |
| | D) | protection |
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Global studies indicate that one-____________ of all women have been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise physically abused in their lifetime. |
| | A) | half |
| | B) | third |
| | C) | quarter |
| | D) | tenth |
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Korean immigrants to the United States obtain the funds needed to begin a business by pooling their resources through an association known as a: |
| | A) | kye |
| | B) | domestic partnership |
| | C) | kagemi |
| | D) | kinship |
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Which term has been used in the popular press to refer to adult children who continue to (or return to) live at home? |
| | A) | "boomerang generation" |
| | B) | counterculture |
| | C) | "Brady Bunch" cohort |
| | D) | Generation X |
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In a study of styles of grandparenting, sociologists Andrew Cherlin and Frank Furstenberg, Jr., concluded that the most common style was for grandparents to: |
| | A) | be actively involved in everyday routine care of their grandchildren and exercise substantial authority over them |
| | B) | carry on a "ritualistic" (primarily symbolic) relationship with their grandchildren |
| | C) | never see their grandchildren |
| | D) | function as "specialists in recreational care-giving" |
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Which sociological perspective emphasizes that government has a strong interest in encouraging adoption? |
| | A) | functionalist perspective |
| | B) | conflict perspective |
| | C) | interactionist perspective |
| | D) | labeling theory |
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Which of the following is a factor that has contributed to the rise of the dual income model of the family? |
| | A) | increase in the number of men with a college education |
| | B) | increasing birthrate |
| | C) | shift in the economy of the United States from manufacturing to service industries |
| | D) | all of the above |
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Since the 1990s the rate of teenage pregnancy among Black women in the United States has: |
| | A) | increased dramatically |
| | B) | decreased |
| | C) | increased slightly |
| | D) | remained steady |
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Of those in the United States who obtain a divorce about what percent later remarry? |
| | A) | two-thirds of divorced men |
| | B) | three-fourths of divorced women |
| | C) | two-thirds of divorced women |
| | D) | 80 percent of divorced women |
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Which of the following factors is associated with the high divorce rate in the United States? |
| | A) | the liberalization of divorce laws |
| | B) | divorce is easier to work out since contemporary families have fewer children than earlier families |
| | C) | the increase in family incomes |
| | D) | all of the above |
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education