Why has the traditional family pathway of marriage, parenthood, and empty nest changed todaya. There is a normative and linear family pathway that the majority of families travel today..
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a. Families are the most productive units of society
b. Families all have the same structures, so they are easy to compare
c. Sociologists like to study family for its rapid changes in structure and functions
d. Sociologists need many subjects to study at a time
ANSWER: c
2. Which of the following is an aspect important for the study of families?
a. definition of situation
b. self-fulfilling prophecy
c. sociological imagination
d. cyclical theory
ANSWER: c
3. Why has the traditional family pathway of marriage, parenthood, and empty nest changed today?
a. highly individualized actions
b. state policy-related actions
c. unprecedented actions
d. political actions
ANSWER: a
4. The traditional family pathway is changing. Which of the following applies to family pathways today?
a. We can experience the same events at different points in time
b. We can experience past events that we missed
c. We can experience only one point in time
d. We can experience pathways in many different countries
ANSWER: a
5. When discussing families in sociological terms today, which of the following is NOT an assumption made by
sociologists?
a. Compared to the history, there is a different mode of operation for today’s families
b. Families are changing at a much faster rate today than in the past
c. Families have evolved into many types compared to the past
d. There is a normative and linear family pathway that the majority of families travel today
ANSWER: d
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a. Relationships are less likely to be formed
b. Relationships are less likely to end up in divorces
c. Relationships are more likely to end up in common-law unions
d. Relationships are less likely to end up in a nuclear family formation
ANSWER: d
7. According to Statistics Canada, which of these Canadian provinces continues to record more common-law unions
than official marriages?
a. British Columbia
b. Ontario
c. Quebec
d. Nova Scotia
ANSWER: c
8. According to the textbook, what was a key feature of marriages in the 18th and early 19th centuries?
a. the securing of economic partnerships
b. the securing of an alliance between two people
c. Marriages were based on pure love
d. Marriages were based on matchmaking
ANSWER: a
9. The concept of love has changed in the late-modern society. What forms the basis of the new love?
a. intimacy with a social distance
b. intimacy without conditions
c. quantitative difference between intimacy and love
d. intimacy with some conditions
ANSWER: d
10. During what period of history did romantic love come into being as the basis for marriage?
a. 12th century
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a. parents
b. Internet-based tools
c. in-person matchmakers
d. horoscopes and religious affiliations
ANSWER: b
12. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, how were important decisions in life such as courtship conducted?
a. Courtships did not yet exist
b. with full freedom for the couples involved
c. with supervision only
d. without any supervision
ANSWER: c
13. Which of these groups are the most influential in decisions taken today by people with respect to dating and
courtship?
a. parents and grandparents
b. distant relatives
c. peers
d. neighbours
ANSWER: c
14. In forming intimate relationships and establishing meaningful communications, which of the following are less
important than in the past?
a. technology and media
b. physical meeting places
c. Skype and hand-outs
d. Facebook and Match.com
ANSWER: b
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a. cohabitation or online dating
b. temporary marriages
c. being single
d. being divorced
ANSWER: a
16. According to Statistics Canada, an unprecedented change in the demography of the Canadian population took
place in 2015. What is this change?
a. Those who were younger than 14 years of age outnumbered those who were over 65 years of age
b. Those who were 45 years of age outnumbered those who were 60 years of age
c. Those who were 65 years or older outnumbered those who were younger than 15 years of age
d. Men outnumbered women
ANSWER: c
17. According to Statistics Canada, by 2017, what will be the ratio of people who are foreign-born and belong to a
visible minority in Canada?
a. 1 in 3
b. 1 in 4
c. 1 in 5
d. 1 in 6
ANSWER: c
18. Which of these factors is a demographic change that has taken place in the Canadian population?
a. a marriage squeeze (not enough partners within the same age brackets)
b. fertility rate going below replacement level
c. higher birth rates for boys
d. higher birth rates for girls
ANSWER: b
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a. cluttered nest
b. congested housing
c. empty nest
d. boomerang nest
ANSWER: a
20. According recent data, which of these types of families has the greatest likelihood of experiencing poverty?
a. any single-parent family
b. lone father-headed family
c. two-parent family
d. lone mother-headed family
ANSWER: d
21. Increasing women’s participation in the labour force in Canada can be attributed to many reasons. Which of the
following is NOT one of those reasons?
a. feminist thinking and movement
b. legal suppression of outspoken men
c. changing economy
d. recognition of women’s capacities
ANSWER: b
22. When heteronormativity is taken as a guiding principle of families, which of these groups are ignored?
a. LGBTQ families
b. extended families
c. single-mother families
d. blended families
ANSWER: a
23. What proportion of the Canadian family composition in 2011 included legally married, common-law marriages,
same-sex couples, and lone parents?
a. 73 percent
b. 67 percent
c. 47 percent
d. 43 percent
ANSWER: b
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a. parents
b. partners
c. siblings
d. grandparents
ANSWER: a
25. The textbook presents a sociological framework for understanding Canadian families via three dimensions. Which
of the following is NOT one of the dimensions listed?
a. meanings
b. practices
c. definitions
d. processes
ANSWER: c
26. In spite of innovations made to the family, which of these factors seems to be consistent?
a. the meaning given to “what is family?”
b. the number of members in a family
c. roles of mothers and fathers in a family
d. sibling relationships within a family
ANSWER: a
27. Eichler (1997) introduced a new concept referring to the assumption that the majority of families are composed of
nuclear units. What is the term for this concept?
a. monolithic descent
b. monolithic bias
c. plurality bias
d. normative bias
ANSWER: b
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a. Europeans
b. French
c. Spaniards
d. Indigenous leaders themselves
ANSWER: a
29. Family practice is defined in the textbook as activities that family members engage in as part of family life. These
activities vary according to certain background factors. Which of the following is NOT one such factor?
a. race and ethnicity
b. age and gender
c. sexuality
d. physical appearance
ANSWER: d
30. Which of the following is a key way that power imbalances dominate activities of family life?
a. Trying to balance work and family is not an issue for women
b. Unpaid work that women are engaged in on the domestic front is not recognized
c. Most women today have entered the work force
d. Women prefer more part-time work
ANSWER: b
31. Which of these statements refers to the term boomerang kid?
a. the child who comes back home from boarding school
b. the child who depends on family members for financial support, even when he/she is an adult
c. a special Australian child
d. a child with the repetitive expression of the same need
ANSWER: b
32. Which of these statements best describes family processes?
a. They are how families are represented to others and the media
b. They are the abandoned activities that are recreated to improve family life
c. They include only ways that family is reimagined and innovated by participants
d. They are routines that are created, change, or end over time
ANSWER: d
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childrearing practices?
a. A growing child rejects his/her parents’ care
b. Parents choose to live in a rural area, where they can freely practice their religion
c. Parents decide to take on an alternative approach to childrearing
d. A child is born with a disability or a high IQ, or is not seen as able-bodied
ANSWER: d
34. According to the textbook, what is the term given to the forming, maintaining, and ending of intimate relationships
and sustaining income security as people age?
a. family processes over the life course
b. transitions
c. stages and events
d. family practices
ANSWER: a
35. Some transitions, such as divorce and marriage, are defined as legal and political events by certain people and
agents. Which of these groups are these people?
a. the general public
b. government officials and policy makers
c. unmarried people
d. married people
ANSWER: b
36. Different generations adopt different family processes; however, certain processes will continue without many
changes. Which of these factors is one such process?
a. how people in the family are cared for
b. how anger is expressed against others
c. how food is prepared and consumed in a household
d. how marriages are formed
ANSWER: a
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a. A risk society does not have different patterns of security and trust
b. A risk society is very similar to a feudal society
c. Risk societies have patterns very similar to those observed in agrarian and industrial societies
d. A risk society has different relationships between individuals and social structures compared to societies in
the past
ANSWER: d
38. According to Beck, Giddens, and Lash (1994), in modern society the nuclear family is losing its importance, but at
the same time is not disappearing altogether. What is this feature called?
a. creative modernization
b. reflexive modernization
c. boomerang modernization
d. repeat modernization
ANSWER: b
39. Which of these concepts captures the phenomenon of women’s increasing participation in the paid workforce and
men’s increased participation in the unpaid work force relative to the past?
a. de-normalization of roles
b. deformities of roles and responsibilities
c. deregulation of roles and status
d. disintegration of roles and status
ANSWER: a
40. In late modernity, the individual is forced to develop his/her own identity in the midst of the fading away of tradition
What is this process identified as?
a. collective process of reflexive modernization
b. counterproductive process of reflexive modernization
c. individual patriarchal pattern of reflexive modernization
d. individualization process of reflexive modernization
ANSWER: d
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a. today’s political climate
b. today’s economy
c. today’s culture
d. modern way of thinking
ANSWER: b
42. Although the governing of the start and ending of family relationships has been a continuous process, there appears
to be a shift in some aspects of family processes. Which of the following is a contributing factor in these shifts?
a. how governing is achieved and for what reasons
b. formation and dissolution of families
c. multiplication of families
d. disintegration of family governance
ANSWER: a
43. Lash (2003) observed that, through separation and divorce, children who belonged to an original family are
removed from an intimate family environment and dispersed into two or more family environments. This process is
now defined as _
a. disintegrated families
b. dispersed families
c. post-familial families
d. pre-familial families
ANSWER: c
44. As Lash (2003) contends, living in increasingly reflexive ways in modern society puts individuals in family contexts
in conditions where they experience which of the following as part of their new ways of living?
a. greater happiness
b. boredom
c. tension and contradictions
d. uneasiness
ANSWER: c
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a. independence of agency from structure
b. impure love
c. emphatic sexuality
d. greed
ANSWER: a
46. According to Giddens, the independence of agency from structure connotes which of the following?
a. Individuals have no freedom to make decisions on their own
b. Individuals are under the full control of socio-cultural forces
c. Social structure is weakening its own power
d. Individuals have more freedom to make decisions while ignoring social pressures
ANSWER: d
47. According to Giddens (1992), when love is not unconditional as in the past, love in late modernity is active, is
contingent upon certain requirements, and expects equality in the discharge of emotional support. What is the term
he uses to present this idea?
a. congruent love
b. confluent love
c. confused love
d. concocted love
ANSWER: b
48. What does Giddens (1992) call sexuality that is NOT focused on reproduction and is mainly for pleasure?
a. synthetic sexuality
b. syndicated sexuality
c. plastic sexuality
d. liquid sexuality
ANSWER: c
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a. love and affection
b. class and citizenship
c. parental interventions
d. random thoughts
ANSWER: b
50. Which of the following is the main purpose of your textbook?
a. to show how families have entered a wrong path today compared to families in the past
b. to show some changes taking place in modern families compared to families in the past
c. to show some important theories pertaining to family
d. to show how important continuity and innovation as dual themes are in our understanding of today’s families
in relation to theories of modernity
ANSWER: d
51. What are some reasons for focusing on families in Canada today?
ANSWER: ∙ Family is a public institution
∙ Families are undergoing big changes over time
∙ Family experiences really matter to all of us
52. It is claimed that families are different today compared to previous generations. What specific changes have we
seen?
ANSWER: ∙ Timing of transition to permanent relationships has changed
∙ Love has acquired different meanings
∙ Intimate relationships are formed for different reasons today
53. Who are boomerang kids? Describe
ANSWER: ∙ children who return to parental homes after their teen years and in young adulthood due to financial or
career issues, or the high cost of living independently
∙ cluttered nest
54. What factors account for the increasing participation of women in the Canadian labour force?
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∙ certain family practices
∙ certain family processes
56. What is a risk society? Define and describe
ANSWER: ∙ It has different patterns of security and trust
∙ Timing and means of creating a family are less dependent on cultural norms than they were in the past
∙ A reflexive project of the self is on the forefront
57. Anthony Giddens speaks about confluent love. What does that really mean?
ANSWER: ∙ romantic relationships based on some conditions, not unconditional love of the past
∙ is active
∙ assumes equality in exchange of emotional support
58. Giddens also speaks about plastic sexuality. How is this defined?
ANSWER: ∙ Sexual activities are for pleasure and not for reproduction
∙ Assumptions of heteronormativity are ignored
∙ multiple relationships over the life course
59. Are there inherent contradictions in modern sexuality practices and family formations? Explain your answer
ANSWER: ∙ Yes; paying attention to traditional behaviours while pursuing modern practices
∙ In the case of transnational families, religion and other cultural values still matter to them
60. In their article in Current Sociology (2012), Farrell et al. have brought up some insights regarding American
families. What are some of those findings?
ANSWER: ∙ Many American studies view two married heterosexual parents residing together with biological
children as constituting a family, even today
∙ This type represents about 50 percent of American families
∙ Sociologists need to expand their horizon when studying new families
61. How does sociological imagination help one understand modern family?
ANSWER: Answers may vary
62. In today’s Canada, what do you consider to be the “typical” family?
ANSWER: Answers may vary
63. Do you find a big difference between what you knew about family changes and what you have read in this chapter?
Discuss
ANSWER: Answers may vary