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Which statement best distinguishes a household from a family?
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7 Gender, Family, and Intimacy Online Quiz Questions
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20 questions
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Which description best captures sociological usage of the term intimacy?
- A
A legal status that exists only between married partners
- B
A relationship based exclusively on shared biological ancestry
- C
A close relationship involving emotional connection, trust, communication, sexuality, or mutual support
- D
A private experience unaffected by culture or material conditions
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Which definition best describes social reproduction?
- A
The paid and unpaid work that sustains people and communities across everyday life and generations
- B
The biological process of conceiving and giving birth to children
- C
The process by which households become legally recognized by the state
- D
The division of paid work among employers in a labor market
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Select all components included in a reproductive-justice approach.
- A
The ability to have children
- B
A guarantee that every person will become a parent
- C
The ability not to have children
- D
The assumption that individual choice is unaffected by social conditions
- E
The ability to parent children in safe and sustainable communities
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Which factors can shape how parenting and care are organized? Select all that apply.
- A
Work schedules
- B
Income
- C
A universal rule that one parent must always provide all care
- D
Public services
- E
Cultural expectations and family structure
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True or false
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The account of modern intimacy associated with Anthony Giddens emphasizes expectations of mutual satisfaction and communication, but does not imply that everyone has equal resources or freedom to sustain relationships.
- A
True
- B
False
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True or false
1 point
A person's parenting role is always identical to their biological relationship to a child.
- A
True
- B
False
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What term describes close relationships that provide kin-like support without necessarily being based on marriage or biological connection?
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In the 2024 U.S. time-use estimates, adults living with children under 18 averaged 1.79 hours per day for women and 1.11 hours per day for men caring for household children as a primary activity. How much greater was the women's average? Give the difference in hours per day, rounded to two decimal places.
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The paid and unpaid work that sustains people and communities across generations is called . The often-invisible work of noticing needs, anticipating problems, and coordinating help is called .
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The perspective examines how people create and negotiate family roles in everyday life.
12
Open ended
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One parent reduces paid work to provide care for a child. Explain how a feminist approach and an intersectional approach would each analyze this decision. In your answer, identify factors each approach would investigate.
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Which statement best explains why sociologists distinguish different forms of parenthood?
- A
Every parenting role follows from biological parenthood.
- B
Parenthood can be biological, gestational, legal, or social, and caregiving is not reducible to biology.
- C
Adoptive and foster parents are not part of family relationships.
- D
A person can become a parent only by giving birth.
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True or false
1 point
The 2024 time-use averages for adults living with children under 18 establish that every individual woman spent more time on care than every individual man in that population.
- A
True
- B
False
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A child spends time in a parent’s home and a grandparent’s home, and both adults help care for the child. Which statement best reflects the sociological distinction between family and household?
- A
They cannot be a family because they do not share one household.
- B
They may be a family even though they live in separate households.
- C
They form a family only if the child is biologically related to both adults.
- D
They are one household because they share caregiving responsibilities.
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A person relies on close friends for ongoing emotional and practical support, and considers them family despite having no biological or marital ties to them. Which concept best describes this relationship?
- A
Chosen family can provide kin-like support without being based on marriage or biological connection.
- B
Chosen family is a term for relatives who live in the same household.
- C
Chosen family refers only to people who have legally adopted one another.
- D
Chosen family is defined by shared ancestry, regardless of whether people support one another.
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What sociological term describes the paid and unpaid work that sustains people and communities from day to day and across generations?
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Which statement best summarizes the account associated with Anthony Giddens while avoiding an overgeneralization about people’s freedom to form relationships?
- A
Intimate relationships are determined entirely by individual choice, regardless of social conditions.
- B
Modern relationships are stable only when partners follow a single traditional family model.
- C
Modern intimate relationships are increasingly expected to be sustained through mutual satisfaction and communication.
- D
Economic circumstances and unequal power have no bearing on intimate relationships.
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What term describes care tasks such as noticing needs, tracking appointments, anticipating problems, and coordinating help?
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Two partners discuss who should be considered the default caregiver and what would count as a fair division of tasks. Which approach most directly focuses on how they negotiate these meanings in everyday life?
- A
Measure how a family’s caregiving contributes to social stability.
- B
Study how partners negotiate what counts as fair sharing in everyday interactions.
- C
Compare the family’s income with national averages to assess economic inequality.
- D
Examine how gender combines with race, class, and disability to shape family responsibilities.