Sociology Marriage and Family Ch.2
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A study of the history of family reveals that________ family is as old as human civilization but that ______ family emerged much more recently
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Public; private
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The American revolution of 1776 brought many changes including
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increased autonomy of women within the family
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The spread of industrial capitalism in the mid-1800s led to many social changes including
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Most family members exchanging labor for wages
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The family system in which descent is reckoned through both the mother's and father's line is followed in the United States and is called
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Bilateral kinship
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Throughout most of their existence, human beings have been
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hunter-gathers
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Historians such as Phillippe Aries and John Demos argue that the concept of childhood as s distinct stage of life was not recognized prior to the 1700s primarily because
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So many infants and toddlers died
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The true woman was
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religious, spiritual, moral, and pure
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The primary job open to African and Mexican American women prior to the 1960s were
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domestic servant
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Informal marriage was common in all but which of the following groups
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Chinese American
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According to contemporary research, the breadwinner-homemaker family was
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dominant only in the aftermath of the depression and the world war II in the 1950s
