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The chapter-opening story of Rosa Yniguez, who came from Mexico to live and raise her three children in California, makes the point that |
family patterns often change among immigrants to this country. |
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The family is a social institution that is found in |
every society. |
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The U.S. Census Bureau defines the "family" as |
people living together who are linked by birth, marriage, or adoption. |
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People include as "kin" others to whom they are linked by |
-ancestry -marriage -adoption |
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Which of the following are typically traits of marriage? |
-a legal relationship -sexual activity and childbearing -economic cooperation |
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A family that includes parents, children and other kin is called |
an extended family. |
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A family composed of one or two parents and their children is called |
a nuclear family. |
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The concept "endogamy" refers to marriage between |
people of the same social category. |
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A system of marriage that unites only two partners is called |
monogamy |
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A system of marriage that unites one woman with two or more men is called |
polyandry |
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The concept "patrilocality" refers to |
a residential pattern by which a married couple lives near the husband’s family. |
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Assume you were visiting a society in which people traced family ties only through women. This society would correctly be called |
matrilineal |
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Typically, industrial societies make use of which of the following systems to trace ancestry? |
bilateral descent |
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To which region of the world would you travel if you wanted to visit many countries where the law permits polygamy? |
Africa |
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According to the structural-functional approach, which of the following is counted among the tasks of the family? |
-socialization of the young -regulation of sexual activity -social placement |
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The incest taboo |
is found in all societies. |
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Following structural-functional theory, the family |
is important enough to be called the backbone of society. |
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A social-exchange analysis of family life is likely to consider |
how individuals select partners who offer about as much as they do to the relationship. |
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Social conflict and feminist theories explain that families perpetuate social inequality in U.S. society through |
-inheritance of private property. -encouraging patriarchy. -passing on racial and ethnic inequality. |
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In traditional regions of many lower-income countries, such as Sri Lanka, marriage |
has little to do with romantic love. |
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The concept "homogamy" means that |
people marry others who are socially like themselves. |
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In the United States, romantic love |
-is the reason most people expect to marry. -is not a very stable foundation for marriage. -may contribute to a high divorce rate. |
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What is the effect of industrialization on the number of children in a typical family? |
Families have fewer children. |
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In the United States, a recent trend involving parenting is that |
more adults are delaying having children or choosing to remain childless. |
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The term "empty nest" refers to |
families whose children have grown and left home. |
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