SOCL 305 - Sociology of
Marriage and Families
Summer 2010
TEST 2 - REVIEW
LECTURE:
The marriage
contract: Who is it between, what are some of it’s rules, rights, etc…
Different forms of
marriage: monogamy, polygamy, etc
Which marital form is
most rare in the world?
In twenty states in
the United States today, people can legally marry__________
Loving v. VA:
Which laws did this Supreme Court ruling strike down
How does cohabitation
before marriage influence marital quality and stability?
Know these terms:
(Some are only in class notes)
Heterogamy, exogamy,
homogeny, homogamy, endogamy, heterogeny
The U-Shape model of
marital satisfaction says that:
Double standard of
sexual behavior?
-What is it
- What are the rules
Why does sexual
activity decline among couples
Sexual scripts
Different Marital
Scripts
The most likely
points of conflict among intimate partners
Factors in why
couples fight over money
Which Amendment gave
women the right to vote?
Markers defining the
sexual revolution?
In which decade did
the baby boom begin?
The first sexual
revolution occurred in which decade
The second sexual
revolution began in the __________
The approval of the
birth control pill by the FDA came in the
When the birth
control pill was originally approved in the United States, it was available to
Gender differences in
communication
The benefit/problems
of peer marriage?
Different measures of
marital quality
A) marital stability
B) marital success
C) marital adjustment
D) marital happiness
Women and men's
communication styles differ in
Factors that may
contribute to arguments
Debriefing
conversations
Types of destructive
communication?
- an
overgeneralization.
- a double message.
- fault-finding.
- mind-reading.
- gunny sacking.
Conversations in
mixed sex groups
Girls represent _____
% of sex abuse victims.
Sibling Violence
Women are _____ times
more likely to be assaulted by a family member than by an outsider.
A) Common Couple
Violence
B) Intimate Terrorism
C) Violence
Resistance
D)Mutual Violent
Control
How does gender
influence participation and victimization with regards to family violence?
TEXT BOOK:
CH 6
Prior to the American Revolution, religious authorities in the United States
preached that sexual intercourse was appropriate….
Beginning in the late 1800s through 1973 homosexuality was thought to be
The “queer theory”
sex-as-reproduction and sex-as-pleasure
Two of the major reasons for the decline in adolescent sexual activity over the
last few years
A person’s sexual
orientation is a result of
CH 7
Parents’ influence on their children’s spousal choice
the end of traditional courtship patterns in the United States?
recent trends with respect to first marriages
“Hooking up”
changing the nature of marriage from companionship to individualization
cohabitation
CH 11
The political model of domestic
violence
Attention by the public and
government to domestic violence in the United States
Child abuse is least likely to
occur in what type of family?
Female victims of violence in the
United States are most likely to be injured by…
Members of which of the following
groups are most likely to commit acts of domestic violence?
Which has the highest incidence of
physical assault? (dating, married, or cohabiting)
an experiment conducted by the
Minneapolis Police Force in the early 1980s