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Multiple choice quiz 3
What term describes relations between individuals based on blood, marriage or adoption?
a) Family
b) Kinship
c) Social network
d) Household
Which term describes a marriage pattern where people can marry more than one partner at a time?
a) Monogamy
b) Serial monogamy
c) Polygamy
d) Polygyny
Which term describes a marriage pattern where people are only allowed to marry one partner at a time but may have several over the course of a lifetime?
a) Adultery
b) Serial monogamy
c) Symmetrical monogamy
d) Polyandry
A patriarchal family is:
a) one in which men and women share tasks equally
b) one in which the man has the major responsibility for housework and childcare
c) one which is female-dominated
d) one where men have the most authority
Which
two
terms are used to describe a family in which at least one adult has children from a previous marriage or relationship?
a) Beanpole family & lone-parent family
b) Stepfamily & cohabiting family
c) Lone-parent family & modified extended family
d) Cohabiting family & lone-parent family
e) Reconstituted family & stepfamily
f) Modified extended family & reconstituted family
Which
one
of the following statements would be rejected by functionalist approaches to the family?
a) The family carries out important roles in maintaining society
b) The family has lost its role in socialization as this has been taken over by other agencies
c) The family is important for stabilizing human personalities
d) Women are able to fulfil themselves through their expressive roles in family life
The separation of jobs into men’s jobs and women’s jobs is known as:
a) the instrumental-expressive division
b) the sexual division of labour
c) the gender divide
d) role divisions
The term privatization in relation to the family means:
a) growing home ownership
b) more children being educated in private schools
c) smaller family size
d) families becoming more isolated and home-centred
The term ‘domestic labour’ refers to:
a) having a paid job as a cleaner
b) working in a restaurant as a cook
c) having a paid job as a child-minder
d) unpaid housework and childcare
An ageing population is:
a) one where there are a lot of old people
b) one which has existed for a long time
c) one which has similar proportions of people in all age groups
d) one in which the average age is getting higher
Which
one
of the following is not a reason for smaller family size in the UK?
a) Improved contraception
b) The changing role of women
c) The growth in child mortality
d) The decline in child mortality
e) The development of the welfare state
Secularization refers to:
a) declining faith in science
b) growth in new religious movements
c) growing belief in paranormal events
d) the decline in religious beliefs and practice
Which
one
of the following best describes the typical family in Britain today?
a) Classic extended family
b) Isolated nuclear family
c) Lone-parent family
d) Modified extended family
e) Cereal-packet family
f) Beanpole family
A meritocracy refers to:
a) a society in which everyone has good educational qualifications
b) a society in which who you know is more important than what you know
c) a society in which the family a person is born into has little importance
d) a society in which an individual’s status is achieved through their educational qualifications, talents and skills
Which
one
of the following is
not
true of a beanpole family?
a) It has multiple generations
b) It has growing numbers of children in each generation
c) It emerges as people are living longer
d) It is likely to become more common as people live longer and have fewer children
Segregated conjugal roles refer to:
a) relationships in which housework and childcare are shared equally
b) relationships in which the traditional roles of men and women are reversed
c) relationships in which there is a clear separation between men’s jobs and women’s jobs
d) relationships in which there are reducing differences in the roles performed by men and women
Which one of the following jobs in the home is more likely to be performed by men than women?
a) Washing and ironing
b) Cooking the evening meal
c) Looking after sick children
d) Cleaning
e) Small household repairs
What is meant by what Duncombe and Marsden called the ‘triple shift’?
a) Women have responsibility for housework, childcare and also perform paid work outside the home
b) Women have responsibility for all jobs in the home, as well as working in paid employment
c) Women carry out unpaid housework and childcare in the home, paid work outside the home, and take responsibility for the management of family emotions and relationships
Most sociologists would regard childhood as mainly:
a) a result of biological immaturity
b) a result of the inferior intellectual development of children compared to adults
c) a result of children’s vulnerability
d) an artificial status created by society and social attitudes
Ariès suggested that in medieval times children were seen as:
a) vulnerable and needing protection
b) having a privileged status in society
c) a source of cheap labour
d) little adults
Which
three
of the following are reasons for the rising divorce rate in the UK?
1) Women have become more financially independent
2) There is a reduction in the religious importance attached to marriage
3) There is more stigma attached to cohabitation today
4) There are more teenage marriages now
5) People expect and demand more from their relationships today
a) 1, 2 & 3
b) 1, 2 & 4
c) 1, 2 & 5
d) 1, 3 & 5
e) 2, 4 & 5
About what percentage of lone-parent families are headed by women today?
a) 40%
b) 50%
c) 60%
d) 70%
e) 90%
f) 100%
Which of the following statements are true?
1) Most lone parents are teenage mothers
2) Most lone parents have never been married
3) About half of lone parents are divorced or separated
4) Over half of lone parents are in paid employment
5) Most lone parents are over the age of 30
a) 1, 2 & 3
b) 2, 3 & 4
c) 3, 4 & 5
d) 1 & 4
e) All of them
Which
three
of the following points about lone-parent families are likely to be made by those who support a New Right perspective?
1) Couples should marry before having children
2) Lone-parent families cause problems because often there is a lack of a male role model for boys
3) Women shouldn’t have children if they can’t afford to maintain them without state benefits
4) Lone parents can bring up children as well as two-parent families
5) Lone-parent families are probably better for children than two-parent families where there is constant conflict
a) 1, 2 & 3
b) 2, 3 & 4
c) 3, 4 & 5
d) 1, 3 & 5
e) 2, 4 & 5
The term ‘cereal-packet family’ is best described by:
a) any family with two first-time married heterosexual adults with children
b) a traditional family with two first-time married heterosexual adults with dependent children, with a mainly home-based mother and a father in paid employment
c) any privatized nuclear family with dependent children
d) a traditional family unit which tries to maintain a close family life through eating meals together and sharing other activities
Which
one
of the following best describes family diversity?
a) A wide variety of different family structures
b) A wide variety of families living in adversity
c) A large number of people living in a narrow variety of family types
d) A large number of traditional families, with some small differences between them
In which one of the following ethnic groups is the ‘cereal-packet family’ most likely to be found in contemporary Britain?
a) White
b) African-Caribbean
c) Indian
d) Pakistani-Bangladeshi
Which of the following statements about domestic violence is true?
1) Most serious abuse of children is carried out by their natural parents
2) There is likely to be more violence in the home than that which is reported and recorded
3) Men suffer as much domestic violence as women
4) Women make up 80% of the victims in cases of domestic violence reported to the police
a) 1, 2 & 3
b) 1, 2 & 4
c) 2, 3 & 4
d) 2 & 3
e) All of them
What
one
of the following is the term used to describe a dominant set of ideas about what the ideal family should be like and to which people should conform?
a) Family hegemony
b) Monogamy
c) Moral ideology
d) Family ideology
Which
three
of the following points would be most likely to be made by postmodernist writers?
1) The type of relationship you choose to live in is entirely a matter of personal choice
2) The state should support and encourage people to live in a wide diversity of family and household arrangements
3) The traditional family has declined because people no longer feel bound by traditional ideas and expectations
4) The decline of the traditional family is causing major social problems, and stress and anxiety for individuals, and action should be taken to reverse this decline
5) The extent of changes in the family is hugely exaggerated and it’s not really changing much at all
a) 5, 4 & 3
b) 5, 3 & 2
c) 4, 3 & 2
d) 4, 2 & 1
e) 3, 2 & 1
Ken Browne — Sociology for AS and AQA, 3rd Edition
