Since the 1990s the rate of teenage pregnancy among Black women in the United States has:
Increased dramatically
Decreased
Increased slightly
Remained steady
Korean immigrants to the United States obtain the funds needed to begin a business by pooling their resources through an association known as a:
kye
Domestic partnership
Kagemi
Kinship
Which of the following factors is associated with the high divorce rate in the United States?
the liberalization of divorce laws
the fact that contemporary families have fewer children than earlier families did
the general increase in family incomes
All of the above
Which of the following is not a function of the family discussed by William Ogburn?
providing of social status
reproduction
economic
protection
In a study of styles of grandparenting, sociologists Andrew Cherlin and Frank Furstenberg, Jr., concluded that the most common style was for grandparents to:
Be actively involved in everyday routine care of their grandchildren and exercise substantial authority over them
Carry on a "ritualistic" (primarily symbolic) relationship with their grandchildren
Never see their grandchildren
Function as "specialists in recreational care-giving"
According to anthropologist George Murdock, the most common type of polygamy is:
polygyny
polyandry
serial polygamy
matriarchy
Which system of descent is followed in the United States?
matrilineal
patrilineal
unilateral
bilateral
Which of the following theorists described the family as the ultimate source of social inequality because of its role in the transfer of power, property, and privilege?
Friedrich Engels
Talcott Parsons
Margaret Mead
George Murdock
Alice, aged 7, lives in a private home with her parents, her grandmother, and her aunt. Alice's family is an example of a(n):
nuclear family
dysfunctional family
extended family
polygynous family
Some observers, noting the high rate of divorce in the United States, have suggested that the most accurate description for the form that monogamy takes in this country is:
functional monogamy
communal monogamy
serial monogamy
regressive monogamy