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Chapter 1 - Families as We Know and Have Known Them
Multiple Choice
1. According to the textbook, we study families for several important reasons. Which of these statements is one
of those reasons?
a. Families are the most productive units of society.
b. Families all have the same structures, so they are easy to compare.
c. Sociologists like to study family for its rapid changes in structure and functions.
d. Sociologists need many subjects to study at a time.
ANSWER: c
2. Which of the following is an aspect important for the study of families?
a. definition of situation
b. self-fulfilling prophecy
c. sociological imagination
d. cyclical theory
ANSWER: c
3. Why has the traditional family pathway of marriage, parenthood, and empty nest changed today?
a. highly individualized actions
b. state policy-related actions
c. unprecedented actions
d. political actions
ANSWER: a
4. The traditional family pathway is changing. Which of the following applies to family pathways today?
a. We can experience the same events at different points in time.
b. We can experience past events that we missed.
c. We can experience only one point in time.
d. We can experience pathways in many different countries.
ANSWER: a
5. When discussing families in sociological terms today, which of the following is NOT an assumption made by
sociologists?
a. Compared to the history, there is a different mode of operation for today’s families.
b. Families are changing at a much faster rate today than in the past.
c. Families have evolved into many types compared to the past.
d. There is a normative and linear family pathway that the majority of families travel today.
ANSWER: d
6. One noteworthy transition in families today includes the degree of commitment to a partner relationship. How
has this affected the outcomes of relationships?
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a. Relationships are less likely to be formed.
b. Relationships are less likely to end up in divorces.
c. Relationships are more likely to end up in common-law unions.
d. Relationships are less likely to end up in a nuclear family formation.
ANSWER: d
7. According to Statistics Canada, which of these Canadian provinces continues to record more common-law
unions than official marriages?
a. British Columbia
b. Ontario
c. Quebec
d. Nova Scotia
ANSWER: c
8. According to the textbook, what was a key feature of marriages in the 18th and early 19th centuries?
a. the securing of economic partnerships
b. the securing of an alliance between two people
c. Marriages were based on pure love.
d. Marriages were based on matchmaking.
ANSWER: a
9. The concept of love has changed in the late-modern society. What forms the basis of the new love?
a. intimacy with a social distance
b. intimacy without conditions
c. quantitative difference between intimacy and love
d. intimacy with some conditions
ANSWER: d
10. During what period of history did romantic love come into being as the basis for marriage?
a. 12th century
b. 15th century
c. late 18th century
d. early 20th century
ANSWER: c
11. The way people engage in dating has also changed today due to certain influences. From which of these
sources is that influence most likely to come?
a. parents
b. Internet-based tools
c. in-person matchmakers
d. horoscopes and religious affiliations
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ANSWER: b
12. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, how were important decisions in life such as courtship conducted?
a. Courtships did not yet exist.
b. with full freedom for the couples involved
c. with supervision only
d. without any supervision
ANSWER: c
13. Which of these groups are the most influential in decisions taken today by people with respect to dating and
courtship?
a. parents and grandparents
b. distant relatives
c. peers
d. neighbours
ANSWER: c
14. In forming intimate relationships and establishing meaningful communications, which of the following are
less important than in the past?
a. technology and media
b. physical meeting places
c. Skype and hand-outs
d. Facebook and Match.com
ANSWER: b
15. According to the textbook, women today are inclined to find love in non-marital forms. Which of these
forms can be included in that statement?
a. cohabitation or online dating
b. temporary marriages
c. being single
d. being divorced
ANSWER: a
16. According to Statistics Canada, an unprecedented change in the demography of the Canadian population
took place in 2015. What is this change?
a. Those who were younger than 14 years of age outnumbered those who were over 65 years of age.
b. Those who were 45 years of age outnumbered those who were 60 years of age.
c. Those who were 65 years or older outnumbered those who were younger than 15 years of age.
d. Men outnumbered women.
ANSWER: c
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