Farel's research (cited by Aulette) compared children whose mothers stayed home with children whose mothers were employed. The researcher divided the mothers into groups:
those who were pleased with their role and those who were not. Which group of children scored highest on several measures of social and cognitive development?
a. Children of mothers who stayed at home and who believed that working outside the home would be detrimental for their children.
b. Children of mothers who stayed and home but wished they had paid jobs.
c. Children of working mothers who were happy with their jobs.
d. Children of working mothers who did not like their jobs.
Ques. 2In her classic book, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan described the white, middle-class families as
a. natural, functioning families.
b. functional prostitution.
c. a pedestal for women.
d. comfortable concentration camps.
Ques. 3A researcher who is examining toys that can be used to learn about housework, like toy stoves and dolls, is probably using which of the following frameworks?
a. Rational choice
b. Socialization
c. Socialist feminist
d. Structural Functionalism
Ques. 4Among Chicanos, compadrazgo refers to
a. a system of shared child raising.
b. multiple nuclear families living in one household.
c. a single nuclear family living in a household isolated from extended family.
d. ancestors that have died.
Ques. 5A 1999 research report on the impact of a Living Wage Ordinance in Baltimore found that
a. it caused job loss.
b. cost increase to the city was significantly above inflation.
c. it decreased competitiveness and raised contract cost on contract bids.
d. non-compliance by employers was a significant problem.
Ques. 6Harvey's research using the large National Longitudinal Survey of Youth examined the impact of working parents. She found that fathers' employment and working hours
a. had positive effects on children's development.
b. had negative effects on children's development.
c. had no significant effects on children's development.
d. had such mixed results on children's development she could not make general conclusions.
Ques. 7Within the structural model, when a parent gets a child to side with him or her against the other parent, this is referred to as
a. scapegoating
b. cross-generational coalition
c. parentification
d. organizational chaos