SOCL 211 FINALS

Question 1

TRUE/FALSE:
The United States has the highest teenage pregnancy of any developed country in the world.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Most children live with

Answer 2

two parents

Question 3

examples of diversity in families around the world

Answer 3

monogamy only legal form, permit pologamy, vary in narms and policies regarding same-sex marriage and family

Question 4

patterns, trends, and variations in u.s. families

Answer 4

increased singlehood and older age marriage, + interracial relationships, delayed childbearing, increased births to unmarried women, stable divorce rate, blended families

Question 5

How the 3 main sociological theories view family problems

Answer 5

Structural functionalism - as a social institution that performs important functions for society. ESSENTIAL FOR SOCIETY FUNCTIONING

Conflict theory -capatilism, social class, and power influence families. POWERFUL + WEALTH SHAPE SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND POLICIES

Symbolic interactionist - family interactions affect self-concept. LABELS & MEANINGS

Question 6

what is maritial decline perspective

Answer 6

modernization in american families that signify collapse of marriage and family

Question 7

what is maritial resiliency perspective

Answer 7

divorce indicates people value mairrage for symbolic value

Question 8

factors that effect acces to contraception and abortion

Answer 8

1. Lack of sex education
2. U.S. highest teen pregnancy rate
3. cost
4. TRAP laws restrict access to abortion
5. most believe abortion should be legal
6. U.S. 50/50 pro-life and pro-choice

Question 9

social causes of divorce

Answer 9

Social causes of divorce include

(1)the changing function of marriage,
(2)increased economic autonomy of women,
(3)greater work demands and economic stress,
(4)inequality in marital division of labor,
(5)no-fault divorce laws,
(6)increased individualism,
(7)intergenerational patterns, and
(8)longer life expectancy.

Question 10

effects of divorce on children

Answer 10

• lower scores/ academic success
• high levels of agressiveness
• high levels of depression
• conflict marriages, divorce reduces these effects*

Question 11

4 types of partner violence

Answer 11

1. situational - occasional violence from arguments
2. coercive
   - violence from wishing to contol a partner
3. violent resistance - self-defense
4. speration-instigated - atypical violence during seperation process

Question 12

why do some stay in abusive relationships

Answer 12

economic dependency, emotional attachment, commitment, guilt, fear, hope, etc.

Question 13

most common form of child abuse

Answer 13

1. neglect
2. deadly - abusive head trauma aka shaken baby syndrome

Question 14

factors of domestic violence and abuse

Answer 14

1. individual, relationship, and fam factors
2. gender equaltiy
3. acceptance of coporal punishment

Question 15

strategies to strengthen families

Answer 15

1. expand defenition of family
2. workplace and economic support
3. improve sex education and access to contraception
4. divorce mediation and education programs
5. domestic violence and abuse prevention

Question 16

what is globalization

Answer 16

increast economic, cultural, and tech interdependence

• climate change universal
• some impace only the nation they occur in

Question 17

causes of political partisanship in the U.S.

Answer 17

political extemist, increased racial, religious, and ethnic diversity, increase division between social classes, and disinformation campaigns

Question 18

what is a social problem

Answer 18

both objective and subjective condition that a sefment of society is harmful and in need of a remedy.

Objective - exestience of a social condition

Subjective - belief that a social problem is harmful to a certain segmant or group of society

Question 19

what is meant by the structure of society

Answer 19

way society is organized

Question 20

components of the structure of society

Answer 20

social groups, statuses, roles

Question 21

what is meant by the culture of society

Answer 21

meanings and way of life

Question 22

components of the culture of society

Answer 22

beliefs (what is assumed to be true), values (good and bad), norms (rules of behavior), and symbols

Question 23

what is social imagination

Answer 23

concept by C.Wright Mills (1959). ability to see connections b/n our lives and the social world. we can distinguish private troubles from public issues

Question 24

difference b/n the 3 sociological perspectives

Answer 24

structural funtionalism
- interconnected parts work together inharmony

conflic perpective
- different groups and interests competing for power

symbolic interationism
- human behavior influenced by labels and meanings created and maintained through interacting with others

Question 25

4 stages of research study

Answer 25

1. question 2. review literature 3. define variables 4. hypotheses

Question 26

how research methods differ

Answer 26

experiments - manipulate indp. variable to show effets on dep. variable survey - info from respondents to study social behavior naturally secondary data - data already collected

Question 27

what is a social movement

Answer 27

organized group of ppl with common goal to promote or resist social change