SOC 220 QUIZ Chapter 12 & 13 – Flashcards
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The U.S. divorce rate is higher than it was fifty years ago, but since the 1980s,
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it has declined
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Cohabiting partners represent about what share of all U.S. households?
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6 percent
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Over the last several decades, the average age at first marriage in the United States has
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gone up
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Today, a majority (55 percent) of young people between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four are living
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with their parents
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Friedrich Engels claimed that the family turned women into
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the sexual and economic property of men
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The process of remarriage after divorce or the death of a partner often creates
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blended families
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In which region of the world do we find the greatest share of nations that permit same-sex marriage and/or same-sex civil unions?
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Western Europe
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Critics claimed that, in evaluating the African American family in his 1965 report, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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rejected anything other than the traditional two-parent family as dysfunctional
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"Latchkey kids" is a term that refers to children who
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fend for themselves after school until a parent gets home from work
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What type of marriage laws, found in only a few states, allow couples when they marry to agree to certain conditions that make the marriage harder to dissolve?
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Covenant marriage
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In England in 1978, Louise Brown became the world's first
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test-tube baby
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Which theoretical approach focuses on how the family supports gender inequality?
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Feminist analysis
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Which political point of view makes the claim that replacement of the family as we know it is a necessary step toward the goal of social equality?
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Radical left
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Which political position is defined by support for diverse family forms, including cohabitation and same-sex marriage?
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Liberal
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If there is one claim we can make about the future of families, it is that families will
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continue to change
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What policy directs schools to offer classes in most subject areas in the students' native language, which also teaching them English?
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Bilingual education
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Beyond teaching academic subjects, schools teach students to follow directions, be patriotic, and fit in. This information that encourages support for the status quo is referred to as
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the hidden curriculum
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Supporters of tracking
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claim that by placing students in classes based on personal performance on achievement tests, schools will better address the abilities and interests of each child.
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Critics of tracking argue that
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tracking reflects social background so that it transforms the social advantage of well-off children into an educational advantage
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A sociological perspective shows that dropping out of school is closely linked with
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social class position
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A school that integrates students with disabilities into regular school programs is following a policy of
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mainstreaming
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On the combined SAT,high school students living in families earning more than $ 20,000 a year outperform their peers living in families earning $20,000 per year by almost
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400 points
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Despite official government claims of almost universal literacy skills, about what share of the U.S. adult population does not read, write, or do basic arithmetic well enough to carry out daily responsibilities?
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14 percent
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Not being able to read and write or do basic arithmetic well enough to carry out daily responsibilities is a conditions referred to as
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functional illiteracy
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Which program says, in effect, "You are entitled to use your tax money to school your children whenever you want?"
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School vouchers
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A key claim of _____ analysis is that schooling reflects and and perpetuates social inequality based on class.
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social-conflict
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The educational initiative called "Common Core"
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specifies skills that children should learn in each grade
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Which theoretical approach identifies various ways in which schooling helps our society to operate?
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Structural-Functional approach
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According to the federal government, what share of public schools reported at least one violent crime at schooling during the 2011-2012 school year?
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74 percent
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From which political position would someone claim that nothing less than making basic changes to the current economic and political systems will lead to solving problems or inequality in schooling?
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Radical left
