True or False Quiz


1	In polygynous societies, most men have multiple spouses.
		A)	True
		B)	False


2	Many sociologists believe that the matriarchal family has begun to replace the patriarchal family as the social norm in the United States, as more and more women become self-sufficient.
		A)	True
		B)	False


3	The functionalist perspective encourages us to examine the ways in which an institution gratifies the needs of its members and contributes to the stability of society.
		A)	True
		B)	False


4	Currently, up to 90 percent of all men and women in the United States marry at least once.
		A)	True
		B)	False


5	Endogamy is intended to reinforce the cohesiveness of the group by suggesting to the young that they should marry someone "of our own kind."
		A)	True
		B)	False


6	The largest single category of adoption in the United States is adoption by strangers.
		A)	True
		B)	False


7	Approximately 10 percent of all people in the United States will marry, divorce, and then remarry.
		A)	True
		B)	False


8	Men are less likely to remarry than women because they cannot afford to make child support payments and establish a new family simultaneously.
		A)	True
		B)	False


9	The number of households in the United States engaged in cohabitation increased sixfold in the 1960s.
		A)	True
		B)	False


10	The contemporary gay liberation movement has given an increasing number of lesbians and gay men the support to proclaim their sexual and affectional orientation.
		A)	True
		B)	False

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