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In her native country of India,Malina's family would have insisted that she marry someone of a similar ethnicity and social class.Her family has immigrated to the United States,and though her family disapproves,Malina marries a Hawaiian man she has fallen in love with.Her choice reflects her preference for the U.S.marriage rule of:

A) endogamy.
B) exogamy.
C) nuclear families.
D) polygamy.

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Which 1996 legislation led to national welfare reform during the Clinton administration?

A) the Civil Rights Act
B) the Americans with Disabilities Act
C) the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act
D) the Violence Against Women Act

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About how long do the majority of single mothers stay on the welfare rolls in the United States?

Structural changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution had major consequences for families.One important consequence is that the Industrial Revolution:

The contemporary belief that work life and family life are separate spheres emerged with the Industrial Revolution.With this shift came the expectation that family life was women's domain and work life was men's domain.Lingering notions of separate spheres continue to shape men's and women's experiences today.Provide four examples of how this notion shapes (or could shape)men's and women's lives differently.

Cole's parents divorced when he was six,but now both of them are remarried.He has two stepsisters on his mother's side and a new stepbrother on his father's side.These families are examples of which of the following type of family?

According to Ruth Schwartz Cowan's 1983 research,time-saving devices like the vacuum cleaner and washing machine have actually increased the amount of time women spend on housework.What explanation is given for her finding?

In 2007,intimate partner violence accounted for more than 2,300 deaths.What percentage of these victims were male?

Who wrote The Feminine Mystique (1963) ?

It is commonly perceived that the divorce rate has skyrocketed since the 1950s,but actually divorce rates in the United States have been:

Define nuclear family and briefly describe its evolution.Can the nuclear family be called the "traditional family form" in the United States today? Justify your answer with two examples drawn from the chapter.

According to your textbook,the most frequent form of domestic violence is:

Amy and her husband Seamus both work.Outside working hours,Amy does most of the housework and Seamus serves on the local city council.Sarah Fenstermaker Berk,who studies family role formation,has called the family a:

Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski (1913) examined the family structure of nontraditional cultures and settled a long-standing debate when he concluded that:

Define what Barbara Risman calls fair families.List and explain two examples of the potential benefits of these types of families.

Which of the following characterized the preindustrial family?

Gausa has fallen in love with Niso,a man who is outside her ethnic group.Her family shames her and convinces her to marry Xhoso,a man within her group.Gausa is following her ethnic group's rule of:

In his book The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today (2009) ,sociologist Andrew Cherlin proposes that America's "love-hate" relationship with marriage stems from the:

The Soron family consists of a male breadwinner,a female housewife,and their children.A sociologist might see the Soron family as statistically interesting,because this family type represents about ________ of today's U.S.families.

Discuss the main findings from research on the chore wars-the gendered division of household labor-as studied by Arlie Hochschild (1989,2003)and Viviana Zelizer (2005).