Family
Theories & Theorists
Religion
Education
Statistics & Numbers
100
Research has shown that the ____________ the family, the ____________ the children’s achievement on test scores and grades.
What is larger & lower
100
Durkheim felt that one of the major functions of religion was that it perpetuates what?
What is solidarity.
100
Defined broadly, religion is:
What is a set of shared stories, beliefs, and practices about sacred things that guide beliefs and behaviors.
100
Broadly defined, education is:
What is the processes through which academic, social, and cultural ideas and tools—both general and specific—are developed.
100
Approximately what percentage of U.S. marriages ends in divorce?
What is 40%
200
The “typical” American family today is:
What is dual-income.
200
Karl Marx referred to religion as the “opium of the masses.” By this, he meant which of the following statements?
What is religion pacifies people with promises of rewards in the afterlife; therefore, they do not challenge the subjugating, exploitative, and alienating social conditions in this life.
200
During the modern period, science competed with ____________ as the primary source for knowledge.
What is religion
200
In 2010, women earned what percent of graduate degrees?
What is 60%
200
In what year did physicians start to have particularly high prestige?
When is the 1980s
300
A family consisting of a mother, father, and their biological children is known as a(n):
What is nuclear family.
300
According to sociologists Jerry Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson, because workers want to advance in their careers, many avoid taking full advantage of what?
What is family-friendly office policies.
300
What is the difference between a social movement and a ritual?
What is rituals don’t aim to change something about society.
300
One of the most interesting findings from the Coleman Report was that:
What is when lower-class students went to school with more upper-status students, their grades improved.
300
what percentage of today’s U.S. families consists of a male breadwinner, a female housewife, and their children?
What is 23%
400
A prominent hypothesis about the effect of family size on children’s educational outcomes is the:
What is resource dilution model
400
What theory of the family argues that nuclear families are necessary for child rearing and fulfilling society’s need for productive workers.
What is functionalist
400
What is the trend in industrial nations toward a separation between church and state, a belief in rationality and science, and the movement away from religiosity and spiritual belief known as?
What is secularism.
400
One of the major reasons Native Americans were placed in boarding schools for 60 years was to do what?
What is to socialize them to become “civilized” Americans.
400
According to data in Chapter 12, U.S. women earn about how much for every dollar earned by U.S. men?
What is $0.77
500
In families where both spouses work for wages, the second shift can best be described as:
What is the domestic tasks that fall disproportionately on women in addition to their paid work.
500
Max Weber wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, in which he proposed that modern societies were moving from tradition or habit to:
What is rationality.
500
The domestic duties that still fall disproportionately on working women’s shoulders are labeled by Hochschild (1989) as what?
What is “the second shift.”
500
According to your text, approximately what percentage of the nation’s population 16 years and older is innumerate? functionally illiterate?
What is 22% and 14%
500
In what year were laws prohibiting interracial marriage struck down in the United States?
When is 1967
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