FAD 2230 FSU Exam 2 UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Commune - Correct answers✔Group of adults and perhaps children who live together, sharing
aspects of their lives. Some communes are group marriages, in which members share sex; others
are communal families, with several monogamous couples, who share everything except sexual
relations and their children
Domestic Partnership - Correct answers✔Arrangement in which an unmarried couple registers
their partnership with a civil authority and then enjoys some rights, benefits, and entitlements,
traditionally reserved for marrieds.
Civil Unions - Correct answers✔Legislation that allows any two single adults-including samesex
partners or blood relatives, such as siblings or a parent and adult child-to have access to virtually
all marriage rights and benefits on the state level, but none on the federal level. Designed to give
same-sex couples many of the legal benefits of marriage while denying them the right to legally
marry.
Intermittent Cohabitation - Correct answers✔Relationships in which parenting couples in
together, then out, then back in.
Selection Effects - Correct answers✔When individuals "select" themselves into a category being
investigated
Consensual Marriages - Correct answers✔Heterosexual, conjugal unions that have not gone
through a legal marriage ceremony
Cohabitation - Correct answers✔Living together in an intimate, sexual relationship without
traditional, legal marriage. Sometimes referred to as living together or marriage without marriage,
, cohabitation can be a courtship process or an alternative to legal marriage, depending on how
partners view it.
Boomerangers - Correct answers✔Adults who leave home and then return to live with their
parents
Living apart together (LAT) - Correct answers✔Emerging lifestyle choice in which a couple is
committed to a long-term relationship but each partner maintains a separate dwelling.
Emerging adulthood - Correct answers✔Fairly new life cycle stage typically defined as young
adults ages 18 to 29 who spend more time in higher education or exploring options regarding
work, career, and family making than in the past.
sex ratio - Correct answers✔The number of men per 100 women in society. If the sex ratio is
above 100, there are more men than women; if it is below 100, there are more women than men.
Individualistic - Correct answers✔Society in which the main concern is with one's own interests
(which may or may not include those of one's immediate family).
Collectivist - Correct answers✔A society in which people identify with and conform to the
expectations of their relatives or clan, who look after their interests in return for their loyalty. The
group has priority over the individual. Also known as communal society
Communal - Correct answers✔A society in which people identify with and conform to the
expectations of their relatives or clan, who look after their interests in return for their loyalty. The
group has priority over the individual. Also known as collectivist
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Commune - Correct answers✔Group of adults and perhaps children who live together, sharing
aspects of their lives. Some communes are group marriages, in which members share sex; others
are communal families, with several monogamous couples, who share everything except sexual
relations and their children
Domestic Partnership - Correct answers✔Arrangement in which an unmarried couple registers
their partnership with a civil authority and then enjoys some rights, benefits, and entitlements,
traditionally reserved for marrieds.
Civil Unions - Correct answers✔Legislation that allows any two single adults-including samesex
partners or blood relatives, such as siblings or a parent and adult child-to have access to virtually
all marriage rights and benefits on the state level, but none on the federal level. Designed to give
same-sex couples many of the legal benefits of marriage while denying them the right to legally
marry.
Intermittent Cohabitation - Correct answers✔Relationships in which parenting couples in
together, then out, then back in.
Selection Effects - Correct answers✔When individuals "select" themselves into a category being
investigated
Consensual Marriages - Correct answers✔Heterosexual, conjugal unions that have not gone
through a legal marriage ceremony
Cohabitation - Correct answers✔Living together in an intimate, sexual relationship without
traditional, legal marriage. Sometimes referred to as living together or marriage without marriage,
, cohabitation can be a courtship process or an alternative to legal marriage, depending on how
partners view it.
Boomerangers - Correct answers✔Adults who leave home and then return to live with their
parents
Living apart together (LAT) - Correct answers✔Emerging lifestyle choice in which a couple is
committed to a long-term relationship but each partner maintains a separate dwelling.
Emerging adulthood - Correct answers✔Fairly new life cycle stage typically defined as young
adults ages 18 to 29 who spend more time in higher education or exploring options regarding
work, career, and family making than in the past.
sex ratio - Correct answers✔The number of men per 100 women in society. If the sex ratio is
above 100, there are more men than women; if it is below 100, there are more women than men.
Individualistic - Correct answers✔Society in which the main concern is with one's own interests
(which may or may not include those of one's immediate family).
Collectivist - Correct answers✔A society in which people identify with and conform to the
expectations of their relatives or clan, who look after their interests in return for their loyalty. The
group has priority over the individual. Also known as communal society
Communal - Correct answers✔A society in which people identify with and conform to the
expectations of their relatives or clan, who look after their interests in return for their loyalty. The
group has priority over the individual. Also known as collectivist
