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Worksheets3.1 & 3.2 Family
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 18mins
A family consisting of a mother, father and their dependent children
bean-pole family
extended family
nuclear family
monogamous family
When one man is married to multiple women
Empty shell marriage
Polygyny
Monogamy
Polyandry
Which of the following four did Murdock identify as the functional prerequisites?
Reproduction
Emotional
Socialisation
Sexual control
Economic
Having a single sexual or marriage partner is called
polygamy
household
monogamy
marriage
Marriage is defined as the union of two people recognized by____
monogamy
law
extended kin folk family
religious beliefs
Who argued that the nuclear family is the universal social unit?
Fletcher
Giddens
Parsons
Murdock
The things that any institution, such as family, must perform in order to continue successfully
primary socialisation
monogamy
functional prerequisites
household
Which of the following did Fletcher identify as functions of the contemporary family?
Core and peripheral functions
economic and motional functions
sexual and reproduction functions
social and education functions
According to the "Fit Thesis" the most common type of family in pre-industrial times was:
Extended families
Nuclear Families
Bean-pole families
blended families
The two main arguments against Parson's "Fit Thesis"
It wasn't economically practical
People didn't live long enough to support the structure
There is no evidence to to support this as a common family type
Most people could not read or write before industrialization
Which sociological approach was the first to focus on the importance of the family?
Marxists
Interactionalists
Feminists
Functionalists
The idea that women perform "two shifts" ; one in the household and one outside the home
Dual Burden
radical feminism
Triple shift
Marxist feminism
Which three of the following are Marxists' ideas about the family?
families perform a productive role producing future workers
families perform domestic labor together
families acts as a stabilising force
families teach and control the ideas favorable to capitalism and the ruling class
families act as "psycological survival for members
Radical feminist use this term to describe the domination of women and children by men.
patriarchy
matriarchy
triple shift
sexism
According to Neo-Marxist the four types of capital are:
Economic
Cultural
Social
Symbolic
psycological
Co-habitation has increased because of
reduced pressures to marry, more access to birth control
no laws against it, unacceptance of social recognition of it
economic implications of marriage
families living together to help with child raising
The idea of someone marrying for status or money instead of love is
empty shell marriage
serial monogamy
confluent love
Romanic love
When someone is legally married but only in name, living in the same house.
marriage of conveinence
empty shell marriage
confluent marriage
cohabitation
Funtionalist thinker, George Murdock is a:
anthropologist
medical doctor
Marxist sociologist
A real cool guy
Family functions act as a bridge between the micro world and the macro world and through the emotional closeness and commitment children learn the rules they need to follow in society.(Horowitz) This is the view of a:
neo-marxist
neo-functionalist
radical feminist
interactionalist
The type of family in which two broken up families reassemble as a new family through marriage or co-habitation.
confluent love
beanpole family
reconstituted family
nuclear family
Which four of the following is a type of family structure?
Beanpole
Conjugal
symmetrical
Matriarchal
Patriarchal
What social group first used the word "family" to describe close relationships with family like characteristics?
old age communities
families with adopted children
religious commune communities
LGBT community
What types of communities is the bean pole family structure common in?
Societies with low or declining birthrates
Societies with more nuclear families
Societies where extended families are the norm
societies where families of choice are common
Which two terms are associated with the sharing of roles with in the family?
Symmetrical family
Triple shift
Conjugal roles
Double shift
Matrifocal
Which ethnic group did Berthod (2000) note have higher rates of single parenthood and lower marriage rates then other groups?
Bangladesh
Indian
Afro-Caribbean
South Asian
Which ethnic group did Berthond (2005) were more likely to live in multigenerational families
Indian
Afro-Carribean
Latino-american
Chinese
Which of the following three are reasons families are more diverse then ever before?
social changes such as easy assess to divorce
reconstituted families are more common
increased life expectancies
changing social attitudes
confluent love is common
Over the past 50 years (Beaumont 2011) noted what is more common, with 35% of people living this way?
nuclear families
lone-person household
extended family households
commune living
Which viewpoint believes the family encompasses many forms and there is no single correct way
New Right
Marxist
Post Modern
Radical Feminism
Which four of the following statements are New Right assumptions?
family uniformity provides the most structure
traditional heterosexual nuclear family is the most stable
the focus of family members is on individual self-development
cohabiting relationships are too unstable to last
more cohabiting relationships end with single parents raising children
