What criteria do United States courts use to determine property rights?
(a) proof of ownership
(b) wedding certificates
(c) the husband's claim
(d) the wife's claim
Ques. 2Working husbands and wives both cited ________ as the most important item for a successful marriage.
A) sharing of household chores
B) being unified in childrearing decisions
C) sharing bill paying responsibilities
D) having a good sexual relationship
Ques. 3What is meant by the term crude divorce rate?
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 4Dr. Moffat is a fictional sociologist who specializes in the study of parenting. Dr. Moffat's most well-known book looks at how parents participate in children's education.
Dr. Moffat argues that parents are more likely to push children harder if they are male, and to encourage male children to pursue harder and eventually more high-paying fields like math and science. He argues that the pay differences that we find between men and women generally, and men and women within the same field, can be traced back to these tendencies in parenting. Dr. Moffat's work most closely falls into which of the theoretical frameworks mentioned by your text?
A. symbolic interactionist
B. conflict theory
C. family systems theory
D. ecological theory
Ques. 5Discuss how eye contact has three different meanings in American culture.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 6Compare and contrast the manifest and latent functions of divorce from the structural-functional perspective. Give examples of each of the types.
What will be an ideal response?
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