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SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY

Final Exam Study Guide


 * This is not a study guide that is representative of all the material that will appear on the final exam. There may be information here that is or is not included as well as information that is missing.  This is only to be used as a way to begin thinking about the major concepts discussed in lecture and recitation.

Chapter 7

1.Today’s middle-income parents are working about ______ more hours a year than they were a decade ago.

2.Americans are sleeping _____ fewer hours per year than we did in 1967.

3.Why are U.S. workers working so many hours? a.

b.

4.Annual Average Hours worked per employee in 2000 a.U.S.- b.Japan- c.Canada- d.Britain- e.Germany-

5.U.S. workers work _____ hours more per year than German workers. Why?

6. Why was the middle class so large in the 1950s? a.

b. c.

7.Who said that we have had a quiet or silent depression since 1973?

8.Since the 1970s, we have moved to an _______________ shaped economy (as opposed to a ________________ shaped economy in the 1950s).

9.List three macrostructural factors to be considered in the decline of the middle class. a. b. c.

10.Why have heavy-industry jobs decreased? a.

b.

c.

11.What is “Reaganomics”?

12.What are three effects of “Reaganomics”?

a.

b.

c.

13.What are the problems with “Trickle-Down” theories? a.

b.

c.

14.Whose programs are cut when there are federal tax cuts?

15.Give three examples of drastic tax cuts.

a.

b.

c.

16.Who said “Reaganomic” was “Voodoo Economics”?

17.What is the optimistic perspective of the money crisis?

18.List five positive economic indicators. a. b. c. d. e.

19.What is the pessimistic perspective?

20. List ten negative economic indicators. a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j.

20.What are three pillars of a secure retirement? a. b. c.

21.What are these negative economic indicators on the family?

22.What are three things that could result from this?

a.

b.

c.

Chapter 8

23.Define “sex”.

24.Define “gender”.

25.Define “gender role”.

26.How can we explain behavioral differences between males and females? a. b.

27.List and describe three biological explanations to gender. a.

b.

c.

28.What is the most powerful way of proving a case?

29.What is often discovered in a laboratory experiment?

30.List and describe the socio-cultural explanations/perspectives to gender.

a.

b.

31.Based on the 1994 University of Chicago Study on American Sexuality, most people’s sex lives are __________________ and ____________________.

32.What percentage of men surveyed said they always had an orgasm during sex?

33.What percentage of women surveyed said they always had an orgasm during sex?

34.What percentage of women reported they had been forced to do unwanted sexual acts, often by someone they knew well?

35.What percentage of men admitted forcing themselves on women?

Chapter 9

36.Love is a __________________ activity.

37.Love is _______________. What does this mean?

38.Love is a ____________ ___________________.

39.We ___________________ and _______________ our emotional states.

40.How do we define and manage our emotional states? a.

b.

c.

d.

41.What is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)?

42.What is rational-emotive therapy?

43.__________________ said that the emotional experience has two parts. What are they?

a.

b.

44.________________ concluded that the best place for a guy to successfully flirt with a woman is in the _____________________.

45.Why?

46.Hochschild talked about “____________ ________________”. What are they?

47.Hochschild also talked about “____________ ______________”. What is this?

48.According to ___________ ________________, men are more romantic than women, especially in a pre-marital relationship.

49.After a break-up, _______________ tend to “hurt” more than _________________.

50.________________ are more cautious than _______________ about entering a relationship.

51._______________ are more likely to end a relationship.

52._________________ are more likely to be shocked when the relationship ends.

Chapters 10 and 11

53.What are the statistical trends in marriage in the U.S. right now?

54.What was the percentage of married couple households in 1950?

55.What was the percentage of married couple households in 2002?

56.What is the percentage of married couple households today?

57.Why?

58.Why is the percentage of divorced men lower than women?

59.What is the trend regarding people who never marry?

60.What was the National Marriage Project?

61.Who ran it?

62.When?

63.What are its general conclusions? a.

b.

64._________________ people are more likely to be happy than unmarried, separated, divorced or widowed people.

65.This conclusion is similar to that of what famous sociologist?

66.Married people tend to have _____________ mortality rates than unmarried people.

67.What are “data wars”?

68.What do some feminists say about marriage?

69.When was the sociology of housework first studied?

70.How is housework stratified?

71.What types of housework do men tend to do?

72.What types of housework do women tend to do?

73.What do Godbey and Robinson say regarding housework and who does it?

74.Hochschild says that there are five strategies of male resistance to housework. What are they?

a.

b.

c.

d.

e.

75.List four effects that this has on a relationship. a. b. c. d.

76.According to Bader, what do married couples fight about?

77.What are other issues that show up in other studies?

78.What are solutions (or coping mechanisms) to the problem of housework? a. b. c. d. e.

77.According to Hochschild, we live in the midst of a “___________ ____________”.

78.Who is DeVaus and what position does he belong to (in regards to the “data wars”)?

79.According to DeVaus, why are feminist studies of marital mental illness flawed?

80.What does David Popenoe think of DeVaus?

81.According to ________________ and _________________, there are 5 marital styles.

82.List and define these five styles.

a.

b. c.

d.

e.

83.What is a technique that improves communication?

84.Who says that this technique does not work?

85.Why?

86.According to Rollins and Cannon, marital satisfaction is highest at the __________________ of a marriage.

87.When is there a drop in marital satisfaction?

88.When is marital satisfaction the lowest (according to Rollins and Cannon)?

Chapter 12

89.List and describe four relevant factors for divorce. a.

b.

c.

d.

90.What are three effects of divorce on divorced adults? a.

b.

c.

91.What percentage of divorced people remarry? 92.Who is likely to remarry, men or women?

Chapter 13

93.What is the phenomenon of “pressurized parents”?

94.List five reasons why the need for child-care outside the home is increasing.

a.

b.

c.

d.

e.

95.What is the effect of geographic mobility?

96.What is the child-care shuffle?

97.According to 2000 U.N. Data, what is the family leave policy for the U.S.?

98.Is this better, worse, or about the same as most countries of the world?