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Name: Score:100 Multiple choice questions
Term 1 of 100
What are the common causes of social change?
Social change is primarily influenced by weather patterns and natural disasters.
Social change is solely driven by economic factors and technological advancements.
Culture, conflict, ideas, and population patterns direct social change.
Social change is mainly caused by individual preferences and personal choices.
Definition 2 of 100
In 1950, 90 percent of U.S. households were families—using the Census Bureau's definition of two
or more persons related by birth, marriage, or adoption. By 2012, just 67 percent of households
were families, due to rising levels of divorce, cohabitation, and singlehood.
What does it mean that the US is a post-denomination society?
What evidence might indicate that the traditional family is eroding?
Causes and consequences of romantic love and marriage in the US
What connection did Max Weber make between capitalism and Protestantism?
Term 3 of 100
Most widespread health problem related to eating in the US
Anorexia
Obesity
Diabetes
Cancer
,Term 4 of 100
According to David Poponoe, where on earth are the weakest families?
Obesity
Japan
Sweden
Protestant Denominations
Term 5 of 100
What is revealed by society's treatment of pregnancy and childbirth?
Marcuse believes that science causes the worlds problems, not solves them.
pregnancy and childbirth are celebrated equally for men and women.
some men in the military find pregnancy and childbirth an advantage for women in the
military and grow resentful over it.
Older people, members of sects and women are more religious groups in the US
Term 6 of 100
Is the family, as a social institution found in every society?
Yes
No
Term 7 of 100
What US group has the greatest share of female-headed households?
Obesity
African-American families
Anglo-european families
Protestant denominations
,Term 8 of 100
Most common cause of death in low-income countries?
Access to quality healthcare services.
Poverty, which leads to poor sanitation and malnutrition.
Climate change and natural disasters.
Infectious diseases like malaria and tuberculosis.
Term 9 of 100
What does research say about the consequence of cohabitation?
some men in the military find pregnancy and childbirth an advantage for women in the
military and grow resentful over it.
Chronic illnesses, such as heart disease, cancer, and stroke that cause most deaths, usually
in old age
Living together may actually discourage marriage as partners become used to low
commitment relationships
African-american families
Definition 10 of 100
Health and medical care are socially constructed by people in everyday interaction. what people
view as healthful or harmful depends on numerous factors that are not, strictly speaking, medical.
both patient and medical staff engage in a subtle process of reality construction. symbolic
importance of limbs and other bodily organs; the loss of any part of the body through accident or
elective surgery can have important consequences for personal identity
Denomination
Social change
Symbolic interactionist approach to health and medicine
Homogamy
, Term 11 of 100
What region of the world do you find countries that permit polygamy?
Finances are often the limiting factor
Most African nations and Southern Asia
Low income nations such as sri lanka, india, etc...
People in modern society suffer from alienation and powerlessness not anomie
Term 12 of 100
What can we predict 20 years out regarding the family?
Structural/functional:
-Socialization
-regulation of sexual activity
-social placement
-material and emotional security
Conflict:
-property and inheritance
-patriarchy
-race and ethnicity
The roots of most social change is in ideas. People with charisma (MLK Jr) can carry
message that will change world. Also, early belief of protestants set stage for spread of
industrial capitalism.
the transformations caused by the Information Revolution and the postindustrial economy.
1- divorce rate will likely remain high, 2- family life will be more diverse, 3- men will
continue to play a limited roll in child rearing, 4- families will feel the affects of economic
change, 5- importance of reproductive technologies will increase. Marriage and family will
remain foundations of our society for generations to come.
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