The nuclear family means_____________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Polyandry means_____________?

   A. allowing a marriage only within the social class
   B. allowing a man to have several birds
   C. allowing a man to have several wives
   D. allowing a woman to have several husbands
   E. allowing a family to live in a commune

2. In Marx,s theory the made of production means_____________?

   A. the way in which products are made in a factory
   B. the average measure of productivity under capitalism
   C. the organization of a society’s technical and human resources
   D. an integral part of the superstructure of a society

3. Ethnocentrims means_____________?

   A. Evaluating other cultures with the yardstick of your own values
   B. Taking other nations as good as your own one but disowned
   C. no other society is like yours and your society is superior to the others
   D. None of these

4. Carolyn supported her family by working as an administrative assistant She also attended law school and passed the bar she took a job with a small firm specializing in family law Carolyn experienced______________?

   A. horizontal mobility
   B. transgenerational mobility
   C. vertical mobility
   D. geographic mobility

5. What is the term used to describe the stages from one’s birth into a family with a specific status through formation of a new family unit ?

   A. intergenerational mobility
   B. socioeconomic life cycle
   C. vertical mobility
   D. none of the above

6. Stones research suggests that prior to industrialization the nuclear family ?

   A. a did not exist in any form
   B. had begun to disappear as extended networks of kin became more important
   C. had begun to emerge through the separation of work and home life
   D. was simply another institution of patriarchal control?

7. The nuclear family means______________?

   A. a group of people sharing living accommodation and meals
   B. a network of relatives extended within or between generations
   C. the new family created when an adult leaves home and gets married
   D. a two-generation unit of parents and their-children

8. Parsons argued that the two main functions of the modern family were ?

   A. secondary socialization and strict discipline
   B. emotional support and sexual gratification
   C. primary socialization and personality stabilization
   D. oppressing women and reproducing the labor force

9. Domestic violence is physical abuse by one family member against another which two of the following are most likely to be victims of such abuse ?

   A. female partners/spouses and older relatives
   B. male partners/spouses and children
   C. female partners/spouses and children
   D. older relatives and children

10. Which term describes societies where the family name and the inheritance of property passes down the male line ?

    A. matrilineal
    B. androlineal
    C. homolineal
    D. patrilineal