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SAGE Publishing, 2017
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Multiple Choice
1. An industrial economy is associated with which of the following changes in the American family?
a. Higher fertility rates
b. Increased expectations for intimacy and personal happiness
c. Increased risk of divorce
*d. Both b and c are correct
Answer location: Applying the Sociological Perspective: The Standard North American Family and the Ideology
of Separate Spheres
Difficulty level: Moderate
2. Which English common law principle stated that a husband and wife were a single legal entity?
*a. Coverture
b. Property rights
c. Coventry
d. None of the above
Answer location: Family Change, Family Continuity
Difficulty level: Moderate
3. Which social hierarchy is discussed in the text as being influential for the family?
a. Gender
b. Sexual identity
c. Occupation
*d. Both a and b are correct
Answer location: Family Diversity and Inequality
Difficulty level: Moderate
4. Which of the following concepts are social expectations that guide behavior?
a. Values
*b. Norms
c. Taboos
d. Both a and b are correct
Answer location: Sociological Perspective on Families
Difficulty level: Easy
5. Which concept describes a cluster of patterned behaviors governed by social norms that is enacted by
individuals occupying social roles?

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*a. Social institutions
b. Social frameworks
c. Networks
d. Social culture
Answer location: Sociological Perspective on Families
Difficulty level: Easy
6. Being labeled a “dead beat parent” is an example of which type of social sanction?
a. Legal
b. Formal
*c. Informal
d. Stigma
Answer location: Sociological Perspective on Families
Difficulty level: Easy
7. Which sociologist defined sociology as the scientific study of institutions?
a. Karl Marx
b. Max Weber
*c. Emile Durkheim
d. Jane Adams
Answer location: Sociological Perspective on Families
Difficulty level: Hard
8. Serving jail time for not paying child support is an example of which type of social sanction?
a. Labeling
*b. Formal
c. Informal
d. Stigma
Answer location: Sociological Perspective on Families
Difficulty level: Easy
9. Which of the following is true about role expectations?
a. They change over time
b. They are static
c. They depend on context
*d. Both a and c are correct
Answer location: Sociological Perspective on Families
Difficulty level: Moderate
10. Which sociologist used the term sociological imagination?
*a. C. Wright Mills
b. Max Weber
c. Emile Durkheim
d. Jane Adams

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SAGE Publishing, 2017
Answer location: Sociological Perspective on Families
Difficulty level: Hard
11. Which concept discusses the relationship between “personal troubles” and “public issues”?
a. Stratification
b. Classism
*c. Sociological imagination
d. Gender hierarchy
Answer location: Sociological Perspective on Families
Difficulty level: Hard
12. Which of the following was not used by C. Wright Mills to illustrate the sociological imagination?
*a. Cases of sexism in the workplace
b. Cases of unemployment
c. Divorce
d. Both b and c are correct
Answer location: Sociological Perspective on Families
Difficulty level: Moderate
13. Which of the following inequalities led to the legal recognition of same-sex marriage?
a. Same-sex couples being denied access to tax-free inheritance
b. Medical decision making
c. In vitro fertilization
*d. Both a and b are correct
Answer location: Sociological Perspective on Families
Difficulty level: Hard
14. Who used the term Standard North American Family to capture the image of the traditional American
family?
a. Jane Adams
*b. Dorothy Smith
c. Emile Durkheim
d. Talcott Parsons
Answer location: Applying the Sociological Perspective: The Standard North American Family and the Ideology
of Separate Spheres
Difficulty level: Hard
15. Which of the following is not true according to the Standard North American Family image?
a. The husband is employed
*b. The wife is employed
c. The wife’s primary duty is caring for the home, children and her husband
d. None of the above
Answer location: Applying the Sociological Perspective: The Standard North American Family and the Ideology
of Separate Spheres

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Ciabattari, Sociology of Families: Change, Continuity, and Diversity
SAGE Publishing, 2017
Difficulty level: Moderate
16. Which ideology held that the public sphere of work and the private sphere of home were independent
realms of existence?
*a. Separate spheres
b. Independent frames
c. Co-dependent spheres
d. Co-dependent frames
Answer location: Applying the Sociological Perspective: The Standard North American Family and the Ideology
of Separate Spheres
Difficulty level: Moderate
17. Which of the following was true of child bearing in American history?
a. Women born during the mid-1800s tended to give birth to more than five children
b. By the end of the 19th century, the birth rate dropped to just over three children per woman
c. With the medical advances of the early 20th century, women continued to birth over five children
*d. Both a and b are correct
Answer location: Applying the Sociological Perspective: The Standard North American Family and the Ideology
of Separate Spheres
Difficulty level: Moderate
18. Which of the following is true regarding increased educational opportunities for young people through
American history?
a. It has not impacted family formation
b. It is associated with the independent life stage
c. Has reduced the influence that parents have on the romantic behaviors of their children
*d. Both b and c are correct
Answer location: Understanding Contemporary Families
Difficulty level: Hard
19. What concept is a socially constructed classification system that divides people into groups based on
phenotype/and or ancestry?
a. Genetics
*b. Race-ethnicity
c. Heredity
d. None of the above
Answer location: A Demographic Snapshot of the U.S. Population
Difficulty level: Easy
20. In 2014, this minority group comprised 17% of the U.S. population.
*a. Hispanic
b. African American
c. Native American
d. Asian American

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Ciabattari, Sociology of Families: Change, Continuity, and Diversity
SAGE Publishing, 2017
Answer location: A Demographic Snapshot of the U.S. Population
Difficulty level: Hard
21. In 2014, this minority group comprised 12% of the U.S. population.
a. Hispanic
*b. African American
c. Native American
d. Asian American
Answer location: A Demographic Snapshot of the U.S. Population
Difficulty level: Hard
22. This minority group makes up 24% of the U.S. population under 18 years of age.
*a. Hispanic
b. African American
c. Native American
d. Asian American
Answer location: A Demographic Snapshot of the U.S. Population
Difficulty level: Hard
23. Which state is called home by more than a quarter of the foreign born in the United States?
*a. California
b. Texas
c. New York
d. Florida
Answer location: A Demographic Snapshot of the U.S. Population
Difficulty level: Moderate
24. Which of the following is the origin of birth for the largest segment of the foreign-born living in the U.S.?
a. Africa
*b. Mexico
c. Europe
d. Central and South America
Answer location: A Demographic Snapshot of the U.S. Population
Difficulty level: Moderate
25. Which of the following family behaviors are influenced by social class?
a. Marriage
b. Childbearing
c. Divorce
*d. All of the above
Answer location: A Demographic Snapshot of the U.S. Population
Difficulty level: Moderate
26. Regarding U.S. children living in single-parent households, which of the following is accurate?

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a. 1/3 of African American children are living with one parent
*b. One in three Hispanic children live in single-parent households
c. One in four Caucasian children live in single-parent households
d. None of the above
Answer location: A Demographic Snapshot of the U.S. Population
Difficulty level: Hard
27. In 2015 this minority group had the largest percentage of children living with one parent.
a. Non-Hispanic white
b. Hispanic
c. Asian American
*d. Black
Answer location: A Demographic Snapshot of the U.S. Population
Difficulty level: Hard
28. In 2015 this percentage of all American children lived with only one parent.
a. 30%
b. 55%
*c. 28%
d. 10%
Answer location: A Demographic Snapshot of the U.S. Population
Difficulty level: Moderate
True/False
29. Stepfamilies were more common during Colonial times then they are in contemporary American Families.
*a. True
b. False
Answer location: Introduction
Difficulty level: Moderate
30. Higher education is a strong predictor of marital behaviors.
*a. True
b. False
Answer location: Family Diversity and Inequality
Difficulty level: Easy
31. Higher education is not a strong predictor of childbearing behaviors.
a. True
*b. False
Answer location: Family Diversity and Inequality
Difficulty level: Easy

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Ciabattari, Sociology of Families: Change, Continuity, and Diversity
SAGE Publishing, 2017
32. Sociologists rely primarily on common sense.
a. True
*b. False
Answer location: Sociological Perspective on Families
Difficulty level: Easy
33. It is more common to see three-generation families living together in expensive cities than in cities with
lower costs of living.
*a. True
b. False
Answer location: Sociological Perspective on Families
Difficulty level: Moderate
34. By 1890 more Americans lived in cities than in rural areas and more people worked in industry than in
agriculture.
a. True
*b. False
Answer location: Applying the Sociological Perspective: The Standard North American Family and the Ideology
of Separate Spheres
Difficulty level: Moderate
35. More children live with non-family members in 2014 than in 1960.
*a. True
b. False
Answer location: Demographic Snapshot of the U.S. Population
Difficulty level: Moderate
36. In 2013 35% of gay and lesbian couples were raising children.
a. True
*b. False
Answer location: Introduction
Difficulty level: Moderate
37. According to U.S. Common Law step-parents have legal rights to their non-biological children.
a. True
*b. False
Answer location: Sociological Perspective on Families
Difficulty level: Easy
38. Many women worked in productive labor to support their families in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
*a. True
b. False
Answer location: Applying the Sociological Perspective: The Standard North American Family and the Ideology
of Separate Spheres

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Ciabattari, Sociology of Families: Change, Continuity, and Diversity
SAGE Publishing, 2017
Difficulty level: Moderate
39. In Brazil, an individual’s race is based on their appearance, not their ancestry.
*a. True
b. False
Answer location: A Demographic Snapshot of the U.S. Population
Difficulty level: Moderate
Short Answer/Essay
40. Explain the concept of family diversity and discuss two of the specific sociological insights into family
patterns in the United States.
41. In four to five sentences discuss the significance of using the scientific method in sociological research.
42. Discuss the sociological findings related to the age at marriage and divorce.
43. Using the information from chapter one, develop an essay comparing and contrasting the American family
structure of the 19th century with that of the 21st century.
44. How have increased educational opportunities influenced family formations through American history?
45. Discuss three of the specific ways that the aging U.S. population has influenced various social issues?
46. Discuss five of the specific concepts that sociologist consider when studying families.
47. Briefly define and discuss the six population characteristics were identified to have implications for the
family in Chapter 1.
48. Discuss the function of extended family systems within the U.S. family structure.
49. Identify and discuss two social roles that you have within your family.
50. Discuss the interplay between the economy and gender roles within the family during the 20th century.

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SAGE Publishing, 2017
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Chapter 2: Defining Family
Multiple Choice
1. The definition of family has an impact on which of the following?
a. Custody
b. Immigration
c. Inheritance
*d. All of the above
Answer location: Introduction
Difficulty level: Easy
2. Which sociologists are credited with defining the family in the mid-20th century?
*a. Burgess and Locke
b. Locke and Smith
c. Douglas and Collins
d. Marx and Engels
Answer location: Introduction
Difficulty level: Hard
3. Which of the following is not one of the four distinct approaches used to define family in sociology?
a. Role-based
b. Interactionist
*c. Conflict-based
d. Structural
Answer location: Defining Family: Four Approaches
Difficulty level: Medium
4. According to the structural approach, family is:
*a. A group of persons united by ties of marriage, blood, or adoption
b. A group of people that share a household
c. A group of people that identity as a family
d. Both c and a are correct
Answer location: Defining Family: Four Approaches
Difficulty level: Medium
5. According to the household-based approach, family is:
a. A group of persons united by ties of marriage, blood, or adoption
*b. A group of people that constitute a single household

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c. A group of people that identity as a family
d. Both a and b are correct
Answer location: Family as Household
Difficulty level: Medium
6. According to the role-based approach family members:
a. Are a group of persons united by ties of marriage, blood, or adoption
*b. Interact and communicate with each other based on their respective social roles
c. A group of people that identity as a family
d. Follow a heterogeneous model
Answer location: Family Roles
Difficulty level: Medium
7. Which approach to defining family is sometimes referred to as “doing family”?
a. Role-based approach
*b. Interactionist
c. Structural
d. Household based
Answer location: Family as Interaction
Difficulty level: Easy
8. According to the interactionist approach to defining family:
*a. Family members are creating and maintaining a common culture
b. Are always in conflict
c. Experience a disparity in the distribution of resources
d. Both b and c are correct
Answer location: Family as Interaction
Difficulty level: Easy
9. Which of the following is the narrowest way to define family?
a. Household-based approach
*b. Structural approach
c. Interactionist approach
d. Role-based approach
Answer location: Family as Structure
Difficulty level: Medium
10. Which approach to defining the family does the U.S. Census Bureau utilize?
a. Household-based approach
*b. Structural approach
c. Interactionist approach
d. Role-based approach
Answer location: Family as Structure
Difficulty level: Medium

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Ciabattari, Sociology of Families: Change, Continuity, and Diversity
SAGE Publishing, 2017
11. What is the fastest growing type of household in the United States?
*a. A person living alone
b. Single-parent households
c. Same-sex couple households
d. Heterosexual non-married households
Answer location: Family as Household
Difficulty level: Medium
12. Living apart together household include which of the following?
a. Long-term romantic partners who choose to live separately
b. Children from divorced families in which the parents share custody
c. Children from an intact family who visit their grandparents regularly
*d. Both a and b are correct
Answer location: Family as Household
Difficulty level: Medium
13. What type of methodology did Stack (1974) use in her study of African American Families living in a poor
Midwestern Community?
a. Interviews
b. Survey
c. Focus groups
*d. Ethnography
Answer location: Family as Household
Difficulty level: Hard
14. Which approach to defining family argues that families are best understood as a pattern of shared
activities and relationships rather than the fulfillment of structurally prescribed roles?
a. Household-based approach
b. Structural approach
*c. Interactionist approach
d. Role-based approach
Answer location: Family as Interaction
Difficulty level: Medium
15. Expressive activities within the family include which of the following?
a. Love
b. Care
c. Doing things for each other
*d. Both a and b are correct
Answer location: Family as Interaction
Difficulty level: Medium
16. Instrumental activities that take place within the family include which of the following?

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a. Love
b. Care
*c. Doing things for each other
d. Both a and b are correct
Answer location: Family as Interaction
Difficulty level: Medium
17. Which of the following approaches to defining a family would a demographer from the U.S. Census Bureau
most likely use?
*a. Household-based approach
b. Structural approach
c. Interactionist approach
d. Role-based approach
Answer location: Defining Family
Difficulty level: Hard
18. Which of the following was defined by Powell (2010) as one of the categories that people fall into when
asked the question “who counts as family”?
a. Exclusionists
b. Moderates
c. Inclusionists
*d. All of the above
Answer location: How Americans Define Family
Difficulty level: Easy
19. Which sociologist conducted research on the question “who counts as family” in 2010?
a. Patricia Hill Collins
b. Anette Laureau
c. Jim North
*d. Brian Powell
Answer location: How Americans Define Family
Difficulty level: Hard
20. What type of methodology did Brian Powell use to study the question “who counts as family” among a
nationally representative sample?
a. Ethnomethodology
b. Survey
*c. Interviews
d. Mixed methods
Answer location: How Americans Define Family
Difficulty level: Hard
21. Which category of respondents expressed the strictest definition of family in Powell’s (2010) research?
*a. Exclusionists

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b. Moderates
c. Inclusionists
d. None of the above
Answer location: How Americans Define Family
Difficulty level: Medium
22. Which category of respondents in Powell’s (2010) research tended to use role-based and gender-specific
language the most?
*a. Exclusionists
b. Moderates
c. Inclusionists
d. None of the above
Answer location: How Americans Define Family
Difficulty level: Medium
23. Which of the following categories in Powell’s (2010) research rose from 25% to 33% over the duration of
the study?
a. Exclusionists
b. Moderates
*c. Inclusionists
d. None of the above
Answer location: How Americans Define Family
Difficulty level: Medium
24. What is the name of the prototypical family form in the United States?
*a. Nuclear
b. Same-sexed
c. Extended
d. None of the above
Answer location: Extended Families
Difficulty level: Easy
25. Which of the following is part of the extended family network that a family belongs to?
a. Economic support
b. Social support
c. Childcare
*d. All of the above
Answer location: Extended Families
Difficulty level: Easy
26. Which of the following is one of the types of relationships that extended family members have?
a. Lineal relationships
b. Collateral kin
c. Involuntary kin

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*d. Both a and b are correct
Answer location: Extended Families
Difficulty level: Medium
27. Which type of kin includes grandparents, parents and children?
*a. Lineal relationships
b. Collateral kin
c. Voluntary kin
d. Chosen kin
Answer location: Extended Families
Difficulty level: Medium
28. Which type of kin includes siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles?
a. Lineal relationships
*b. Collateral kin
c. Voluntary kin
d. Chosen kin
Answer location: Extended Families
Difficulty level: Medium
29. What is the name given to kin that people have family ties with that they are not related to by blood or
marriage?
a. Fictive kin
b. Chosen kin
c. Voluntary kin
*d. All of the above are correct
Answer location: Extended Families
Difficulty level: Medium
30. Which of the following demographic changes are raising the visibility and importance of extended family
relationships in the United States?
a. Longer life expectancies
b. Lower fertility
c. Higher neonatal mortality
*d. Both a and b are correct
Answer location: Extended Families
Difficulty level: Medium
31. This occurs when an adult has children with more than one partner.
*a. Multipartner fertility
b. Variable fertility
c. Multipartner morbidity
d. None of the above
Answer location: Extended Families

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Ciabattari, Sociology of Families: Change, Continuity, and Diversity
SAGE Publishing, 2017
Difficulty level: Easy
32. Which of the following groups is more than twice as likely as white family households to be
multigenerational?
a. Hispanic
b. American Indian
c. native Hawaiian
*d. all of the above
Answer location: Extended Families
Difficulty level: Hard
33. Among different racial and ethnic groups which demographic variable was linked in the research to the
differences in family patterns that were observed?
a. Religion
b. Age
*c. Socioeconomic status
d. Sex
Answer location: Extended Families
Difficulty level: Hard
34. Which of the following activities do women primarily perform when they practice kinkeeping?
a. Organizing family gatherings
b. Providing practical help to family members
c. Cooking holiday meals
*d. All of the above
Answer location: Extended Families
Difficulty level: Easy
True/False
35. Racial and ethnic differences in extended family patterns have not been documented.
a. True
*b. False
Answer location: Extended Families
Difficulty level: Medium
36. More than 40% of children born in the United States are regularly cared for by a relative while their
parents work.
*a. True
b. False
Answer location: Extended Families
Difficulty level: Medium

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