SOCL 305 - Sociology of Marriage and Families

Summer 2010

TEST 1 - REVIEW

#) Who is most likely to suffer from depression? Men, women, single, married?

#) Which factor(s) contributed to the youth-controlled courtship process becoming the primary method for choosing life partners in the United States?

#) College students are most likely to meet dating partners…………..

#) In what ways is on-line dating similar to old-fashioned courtship?

#) An opinion poll found that men first notice a woman's (women first notice men’s…)

#) The first and most important dating filter is __________.

#) Dating tradition requires that men………….

#) In a recent study, male college students reported that their major dating problem was…..

#) The three components involved in Sternberg's triangular theory of love

#) Crosby's three types of intimate relationships

#) Types of break-ups:

A) negotiated farewell

B) state of the relationship talk

C) pseudo-deescalation

D) fait accompli

E) attribution conflict

F) withdrawal

G) fading away

#) Types of singles: Ambivalent; wishfuls;  resigned; resolved

#) Weeding out ineligibles or incompatibles until only one person remains, is called:

#) Statistics on # college women students have experienced an actual or attempted rape or have been coerced into intercourse.

#) Know the 3 main factors in breaking up:

#) Know the stages of love: Rapport; self-revelation; mutual dependence; personality need fullfillment

#) Bodies born with both male and female biological parts are referred to today as_______

#) Chromosomes and the sex of babies (XX, XY, etc)

#) Sexual hormones

#) Explanations of gender role acquisition:

A) identification theory

B) social learning theory

C) cognitive development theory

D) enculturated lenses theory

#) Differences and similarities b/t soap operas and professional wrestling

#) Social theories:

A) conflict

B) symbolic interaction

C) structural functional

D) social exchange

E) feminism

#) Victorian sexual morality

#) DEF: Patriarchy

#) Different historical eras of American families:

A) Agricultural Patriarchy

B) Jacksonian Era

C) Progressive Era

D) Modern Era

E) Post-modern era

#)  Factors contributing to the later marriage rates of the current  generation of Americans

#) Over the past few decades, similar changes with  respect to family life in nearly all Western nations

#) The primary family unit in Western nations is

#) The definition of a public family (and examples)

#) While the public family is about __________, the private family is about __________.

#) Parsons and Bale’s study of the 1950s middle-class, two-parent family

#) Expressive and instrumental roles

#) Randall Collins, a sociologist who adopts a conflict theoretical perspective, contends that male dominance over women in our current society rests upon

#) A state in which family members are unsure of who is and who is not in the family is referred   

#) Extended stage of childhood in the 1800s

#) Kinship groups in most societies are made up of:

#) Children in colonial America were considered to be

#) The True Woman

#) One custom from Africa that was historically retained in African American families was:

#) Social changes caused by industrial capitalism in the mid-1800s

#) The breadwinner-homemaker family

#) Gender theorists and economic inequalities between men and women

#) Social and cultural characteristic that distinguishes men from women in our society 

#) The play of boys and girls

#)  “Gendered” elements of society

#) When do most children develop a gender identity?

#) Socialization research on boys and girls

#) The biosocial approach