Marriage and Family Life Final Exam
Contemporary men and women make decisions about intimacy ________________________. -
✅ in a social environment
Young people began to seek more independence from their parents. Why? (7 reasons) -
✅ *Changing economy
*Decline of rural America
*Changing work patterns
*Lure of cities
*New opportunities far from home
*Importance of education
*Relative emancipation of women
In general, the _____________ the class, the _____________ control parents have over the dating
activities of their children. -
✅ higher; more
_____________ and ____________ parents can control choices of their children -
✅ Upper and middle-class
Define Principle of Least Interest -
✅ The person with the least interest in continuing the relationship has the power to control
it
Because people of color are over-represented among the poor, their romantic attachments often
resemble ______________________________________________. -
✅ those found in the lower classes.
True or False: Men are more likely than women to date inter-racially. -
✅ true
The most important norms governing marriage partners have been: -
✅ Marry within your own race and Marry someone of the opposite sex
Define Homogamy -
✅ Individuals date and mate within their class, race, ethnicity, religion, and educational
level.
Define Hypergamy -
✅ Women marry men of higher status
Define Hypogamy -
✅ Women marry lower status male
Some important modern mate preferences are: -
✅ education, intelligence, and the potential to succeed in the labor market
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, Tracking system in schools is highly correlated with _______________________________. -
✅ social class and race.
What is the Social Constructionist approach to society? -
✅ Questions the naturalness of social order and looks for the underlying social
motivations and mechanisms that shape human social relations and societies; Importance of class,
race, and gender
Define Sexual Identity -
✅ Refers to self-classification
Define Sexual Orientation -
✅ Refers to sexual attraction and desire
Define Compulsory Heterosexuality -
✅ Heterosexual behavior as normal and natural while stigmatize other forms of sexual
expression
The roots of the sexual revolution can be traced to the following changes occurring in the U.S.: -
✅ *Rising age of marriage
*Educational convergence of women and men
*Women's growing autonomy
*The invention of birth control methods that are independent of coitus
*The sheer rise in the absolute numbers of singles as the baby boom generation reached sexual
maturity
*The revulsion of a potentially active generation against what they saw as the hypocrisy of their
elders
*Changing advertising and entertainment (sex sells)
People's sexual choices are shaped by. . . -
✅ the social networks in which they operate
People meet sexual partners through. . . -
✅ family members, friends, and acquaintances
Teenage childbearing is highest among _______________. -
✅ Hispanics
What are Sexual Scripts? -
✅ They are a guide to sexual conduct; they are gendered
Men are socialized to initiate and orchestrate sexual interactions, whereas the women are socialized
to be restrictors or responders, simultaneously concerned about harming their sexual reputation and
fulfilling men's sexual needs
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Contemporary men and women make decisions about intimacy ________________________. -
✅ in a social environment
Young people began to seek more independence from their parents. Why? (7 reasons) -
✅ *Changing economy
*Decline of rural America
*Changing work patterns
*Lure of cities
*New opportunities far from home
*Importance of education
*Relative emancipation of women
In general, the _____________ the class, the _____________ control parents have over the dating
activities of their children. -
✅ higher; more
_____________ and ____________ parents can control choices of their children -
✅ Upper and middle-class
Define Principle of Least Interest -
✅ The person with the least interest in continuing the relationship has the power to control
it
Because people of color are over-represented among the poor, their romantic attachments often
resemble ______________________________________________. -
✅ those found in the lower classes.
True or False: Men are more likely than women to date inter-racially. -
✅ true
The most important norms governing marriage partners have been: -
✅ Marry within your own race and Marry someone of the opposite sex
Define Homogamy -
✅ Individuals date and mate within their class, race, ethnicity, religion, and educational
level.
Define Hypergamy -
✅ Women marry men of higher status
Define Hypogamy -
✅ Women marry lower status male
Some important modern mate preferences are: -
✅ education, intelligence, and the potential to succeed in the labor market
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, Tracking system in schools is highly correlated with _______________________________. -
✅ social class and race.
What is the Social Constructionist approach to society? -
✅ Questions the naturalness of social order and looks for the underlying social
motivations and mechanisms that shape human social relations and societies; Importance of class,
race, and gender
Define Sexual Identity -
✅ Refers to self-classification
Define Sexual Orientation -
✅ Refers to sexual attraction and desire
Define Compulsory Heterosexuality -
✅ Heterosexual behavior as normal and natural while stigmatize other forms of sexual
expression
The roots of the sexual revolution can be traced to the following changes occurring in the U.S.: -
✅ *Rising age of marriage
*Educational convergence of women and men
*Women's growing autonomy
*The invention of birth control methods that are independent of coitus
*The sheer rise in the absolute numbers of singles as the baby boom generation reached sexual
maturity
*The revulsion of a potentially active generation against what they saw as the hypocrisy of their
elders
*Changing advertising and entertainment (sex sells)
People's sexual choices are shaped by. . . -
✅ the social networks in which they operate
People meet sexual partners through. . . -
✅ family members, friends, and acquaintances
Teenage childbearing is highest among _______________. -
✅ Hispanics
What are Sexual Scripts? -
✅ They are a guide to sexual conduct; they are gendered
Men are socialized to initiate and orchestrate sexual interactions, whereas the women are socialized
to be restrictors or responders, simultaneously concerned about harming their sexual reputation and
fulfilling men's sexual needs
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