The Cult of True Womanhood promoted the idea that
a. women should be given more rights in the nineteenth century.
b. women should be pious, pure, submissive, and domestic.
c. generated opposition by religious leaders because of its anti-Christian connections.
d. women were more immoral than men and therefore needed to be constantly supervised by their fathers and husbands.
Ques. 2Aulette asserts that families are political institutions in two ways, including which of the following?
a. At the macro-level, families have a political relationship to the rest of society and the at the micro-level families include internal political relationships.
b. The husband's perspective most often connects their family and the economy while the wife's perspective most often connects their family with other families.
c. The politics of society determine family policy while the politics of the family determine a given family's contribution to society.
d. The politics of social structure and the politics of social dynamics.
Ques. 3Families among the upper class
a. are more visible and open to the public than families in other social classes.
b. are not important in the upper class because upper-class people strongly value individual achievement.
c. play an important role in maintaining boundaries between themselves and other social classes.
d. give little responsibility to women for maintaining the class system and their families place within the system.
Ques. 4From 1977 to 2004, the share of national after-tax income ________ for those in the top 5 and ________ for those in the bottom 90.
a. increased ... increased
b. decreased ... decreased
c. increased ... decreased
d. decreased ... increased
Ques. 5Today, about _______ percent of children live in families with a father breadwinner and a mother homemaker.
a. 11
b. 22
c. 55
d. 77
Ques. 6The meta-perspective presented calls attention to
a. the value of generalizing about groups based upon central tendencies
b. how modal characteristics of groups enhances a tolerance for diversity
c. how ethnic groups are qualitatively distinct from one another
d. the between-group and within-group variations noted among ethnic families
Ques. 7Which of the following is an example of a non-normative stressor event?
a. the birth of a child
b. the loss of a home in a fire
c. the death of an elderly family member
d. all of the above
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