What is the relationship between education and divorce?
a. There is no documented relationship between education and divorce.
b. College educated people have a higher rate of divorce than high-school dropouts.
c. College educated people have a lower rate of divorce than high-school dropouts.
Ques. 2Anthony Giddens (cited by Aulette) developed Structuration Theory, including the term ____________, to describe the mechanism by which people act on their surroundings (microlevel), causing a change to occur in the social structure (macrolevel).
a. Symbolic Orders
b. Marxism
c. Interactionism
d. Agency
Ques. 3The U.S. Bureau of the Census identifies households as family or nonfamily households. Aulette suggests that this distinction may hide familial relationships because non-family households include
a. women or men who live alone.
b. gay or lesbian couples who are not allowed to marry.
c. unmarried heterosexual couples who are cohabiting.
d. B and C above.
Ques. 4__________________ can be thought of as the degree to which partners influence one another and are mutually dependent upon the relationship.
a. Interdependence
b. Commitment
c. Intimacy
d. Love
Ques. 5Scholars studying Asian American families noted that a difference between traditional Japanese families and white, middle-class American families is that
a. the Japanese place more emphasis on the parent-child relationship than on the relationship between husbands and wives.
b. the white, middle-class families place more emphasis on the parent-child relationship than the Japanese families.
c. the white, middle-class families place more emphasis on the parent-child relationship than on husband-wife relationships.
d. the Japanese families place more emphasis on the husband-wife relationship than white, middle-class families.
Ques. 6Research on teen sexual behavior indicates that women are twice as likely to name _______ as the reason for first intercourse and men are twice as likely to name _______.
a. affection ... affection
b. curiosity ... curiosity
c. affection ... curiosity
d. curiosity ... affection