Which of the following is true?
a. The macro level affects the micro level but not vice versa.
b. The micro level affects the macro level but not vice versa.
c. The micro level and macro level do not affect each other.
d. The micro level and macro level both affect each other.
Ques. 2The ancestors of many African Americans came from West African societies. All of the following describe the families in these societies EXCEPT:
a. Nuclear families who predominately live in separate households.
b. The concept of family includes many people who may not live in the same household.
c. Extended kin are thought of and treated as family instead of limiting family to nuclear families.
d. Includes as family many people who may not be related by blood but who may be incorporated into a family through informal adoption and foster care.
Ques. 3Which of the following factors contributes to the likelihood of wife battering?
a. cultural norms that promote the use of violence
b. a family legacy of violence
c. situational stress
d. all of the above
Ques. 4How are American families dealing with the current decline in the economy as discussed by Aulette?
a. By putting more family members into the paid labor force.
b. By increasing debt.
c. By going on welfare and getting food stamps.
d. A and B above.
Ques. 5Parents within ____________ families, according to the research, tend to have democratic relationships with their children and less rigid generational boundaries than most other ethnic groups.
a. Jewish
b. Italian
c. Irish
d. Hispanic
Ques. 6Housework is often an invisible activity, not only in families but also in social science research. What prompts it to become more visible, that is, more noticeable to family members?
a. Feminists have been writing about it for 20 years but publishers have just started to publish the articles.
b. As women have entered the labor force, getting the housework done or sharing it has become more problematic.
c. Housekeeping standards have fallen and husbands are complaining about sloppy housekeeping.
d. Generational differences in expectations have prompted mothers and mothers-in-law to be critical of the housekeeping of their daughters and daughters-in-law.
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