Capstone Exam 3 questions &
answers already passed
correct answer ✔✔How have changes in mean age at first birth versus median age at first
marriage varied by women's educational attainment?
what you give up in terms of opportunities foregone (and the benefits you could have received
from those opportunities) in order to do something. - correct answer ✔✔What is meant by
"opportunity costs?"
fathers should be active participants in the day-to-day care of children & have "deep, empathic,
expressive relationships" with
their children (p. 220), along with being a
breadwinner. ]
Low-income men in E&N study cannot live up to middle-class breadwinning expectation. -
correct answer ✔✔What is the "new father" ideal?
1: New "package deal": Relationship with children, Comes before relationship with women------
weak adult relationship.
2: Old "package deal": adult relationship comes first, relationship with child strongly tied to
relationship with other parent. - correct answer ✔✔What used to be the predominant "package
deal" for men (i.e., the "old package deal")?
- correct answer ✔✔You should remember what the Sociological Imagination is. You should be
able to explain it and apply it to course readings
1: Principle of time and place: life course of individuals is embedded & shaped by historical
times & places they experience over their lifetime. - correct answer ✔✔You should remember
, the key principles and terms of the life course perspective and be able to apply them to course
readings
Arnett sees it as a "new and distinct period of the life course that came to define the
experiences of 18-to 29 year-olds in industrialized societies over the past halfcentury". The age
range also is referred to as the "young adulthood" period and the "transition to adulthood"
period.
1: Age of identity explorations:
2: Age of instability:
3: Self-focused age: least structured time of life with fewest obligations to others
4: Age of feeling in between adolescence and adulthood: transition to adulthood not as marked
by education, marriage, parenthood as used to be & more by (a)
accepting responsibility for yourself, (b) making independent decisions, (c) becoming financially
independent
5: Age of possibilities: (a) time of high hopes & great expectations & (b) when major changes in
one's life might be
possible. - correct answer ✔✔emerging adulthood (including the five features of it according to
Arnett)(be able to relate them to course readings)
early (dis)advantage shapes short-term and long-term outcomes, leading to further
(dis)advantage - correct answer ✔✔cumulative (dis)advantage (be able to relate them to course
readings)
of the organization and social relationships that characterize a society. - correct answer
✔✔social reproduction(be able to relate them to course readings)
- correct answer ✔✔Why were the young women Edin and Kefalas studied eager (or why did
they become eager) to have children?
- correct answer ✔✔What were the women's values toward marriage? Toward children?
answers already passed
correct answer ✔✔How have changes in mean age at first birth versus median age at first
marriage varied by women's educational attainment?
what you give up in terms of opportunities foregone (and the benefits you could have received
from those opportunities) in order to do something. - correct answer ✔✔What is meant by
"opportunity costs?"
fathers should be active participants in the day-to-day care of children & have "deep, empathic,
expressive relationships" with
their children (p. 220), along with being a
breadwinner. ]
Low-income men in E&N study cannot live up to middle-class breadwinning expectation. -
correct answer ✔✔What is the "new father" ideal?
1: New "package deal": Relationship with children, Comes before relationship with women------
weak adult relationship.
2: Old "package deal": adult relationship comes first, relationship with child strongly tied to
relationship with other parent. - correct answer ✔✔What used to be the predominant "package
deal" for men (i.e., the "old package deal")?
- correct answer ✔✔You should remember what the Sociological Imagination is. You should be
able to explain it and apply it to course readings
1: Principle of time and place: life course of individuals is embedded & shaped by historical
times & places they experience over their lifetime. - correct answer ✔✔You should remember
, the key principles and terms of the life course perspective and be able to apply them to course
readings
Arnett sees it as a "new and distinct period of the life course that came to define the
experiences of 18-to 29 year-olds in industrialized societies over the past halfcentury". The age
range also is referred to as the "young adulthood" period and the "transition to adulthood"
period.
1: Age of identity explorations:
2: Age of instability:
3: Self-focused age: least structured time of life with fewest obligations to others
4: Age of feeling in between adolescence and adulthood: transition to adulthood not as marked
by education, marriage, parenthood as used to be & more by (a)
accepting responsibility for yourself, (b) making independent decisions, (c) becoming financially
independent
5: Age of possibilities: (a) time of high hopes & great expectations & (b) when major changes in
one's life might be
possible. - correct answer ✔✔emerging adulthood (including the five features of it according to
Arnett)(be able to relate them to course readings)
early (dis)advantage shapes short-term and long-term outcomes, leading to further
(dis)advantage - correct answer ✔✔cumulative (dis)advantage (be able to relate them to course
readings)
of the organization and social relationships that characterize a society. - correct answer
✔✔social reproduction(be able to relate them to course readings)
- correct answer ✔✔Why were the young women Edin and Kefalas studied eager (or why did
they become eager) to have children?
- correct answer ✔✔What were the women's values toward marriage? Toward children?
