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1. The general trend of Americans' attitudes toward the unmarried has been from an attitude of
__________ to an attitude of __________.
A. non-acceptance; acceptance
B. neutrality; non-acceptance
C. non-acceptance; neutrality
D. neutrality; tolerance
2. In the United States there appears to have been a broad cultural shift in the values Americans
hold most dear. The general trend has been from an emphasis on ________ to _________.
A. personal relationships; obligations
B. parenting; employee relationships
C. personal growth; service to others
D. parenting; self-fulfillment
3. ______________ individualism can best be described as a style of life that emphasizes the
development of ones own feelings and emotional satisfaction.
A. individual
B. utilitarian
C. expressive
D. emotional
4. The best term to describe the attitude of many Americans toward marriage and family in the
2000s is
A. reluctance.
B. ambivalence.
C. intolerance.
D. confusion.

5. The ___________ can be described as the tendency to obtain public goods by allowing others to
do the work of providing them.
A. boundary problem
B. externality problem
C. utilitarian problem
D. free rider problem
6. The primary family unit in Western nations is
A. the nuclear family living in the vicinity of extended kin.
B. the small, household-based single parent living with his or her children.
C. the small, household-based family of parents and children.
D. the small, household-based family of two adults.
7. In 2004, the state of _______________ became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage,
joining the countries of Canada, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands.
A. New York
B. Massachusetts
C. Vermont
D. California
8. If you were concerned with the way families discipline their children, handle their disagreements,
or share their affection, you would be focusing on the
A. public family.
B. sexually based primary relationship.
C. external family.
D. private family.
9. An adult child who takes care of elderly parents—shopping and cooking for them, taking them to
doctors, and so on—is producing a ___________.
A. negative externality.
B. private good.
C. public good.
D. mediocre externality.

10. Of the following, which group would not fit the definition of a public family?
A. A gay man caring for a partner with AIDS
B. A childless married couple with no dependents
C. A lesbian couple jointly raising a child born to one of them
D. A divorced mother and her children
11. Sociologists generally do not use experiments to prove or disprove relationships between two
factors since ______ is seldom possible.
A. hypothesizing
B. data collection
C. observation
D. randomization
12. A social institution emphasizes
A. the history of the family as a social institution.
B. people's personalities and their interactions with other family members.
C. the rules, roles, and relationships in families.
D. economic influences on the family.
13. Those most likely to view marriage as a socially constructed institution organized to maintain
male dominance most likely subscribe to the principles of
A. feminist theory.
B. conflict theory.
C. postmodern perspective.
D. exchange theory.
14. If you want to determine how a family is adjusting to the daily expectations and changes of
remarried life with children, the most effective sociological theory to employ would be
A. post modern perspective
B. conflict.
C. symbolic interaction.
D. feminism.

15. To conduct ___________ studies, researchers may join the group they are interested in and live
with them for a period of time.
A. survey questionnaire
B. experimental
C. random sample
D. observational
16. While the public family is about __________, the private family is about __________.
A. caretaking and dependency/nurturing and intimacy
B. outsiders/insiders
C. government interference/husband and wife family unit
D. image and the media/the day-to-day living of family life
17. From a(n) _______ perspective, people are viewed as rational beings who decide whether to
exchange goods or services by considering the benefits they will receive, the costs they will incur,
and the benefits they might receive if they chose an alternative course of action.
A. exchange perspective
B. functionalist perspective
C. symbolic interactionist perspective
D. postmodern perspective
18. According to the __________ perspective personal identity and choices become more important
and more often reflected upon.
A. symbolic interactionist
B. postmodern
C. reflexivity
D. functionalist perspective
19. Most people have used the __________ perspective in thinking about families throughout most of
history.
A. optimist
B. functionalist
C. private
D. public

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