Soc 2052 Final Exam 40 Questions with Verified Answers.
Percentage of first marriages ending in divorce? (1960 compared to now) - Correct Answer
20% in 1960 vs. 43% now
What are the five factors of the Divorce Revolution during the 1960s and 1970s? - Correct
Answer 1) Sexual Revolution
2) Psychological Revolution
3) Women's Rise in Status
4) Secularization
5) Divorce contagion
More than ___% of adults have been divorced. - Correct Answer 20%
Expressive Individualism - Correct Answer affluence and education foster a turn towards
self/feelings/fulfillment
Decline in affiliation & attendance in church. Compare 1952 to 2008 for both. - Correct
Answer No affiliation: 2% in 1952, 17% in 2008
Attendance: 47% in 1952, 33% in 2008
Divorce contagion - Correct Answer In the 1970s when couple imitated behavior of
everyone else and divorce was a way to deal with marital trouble
Coming from a broken home increases your divorce risk by __%. - Correct Answer 89%
Which is model of marriage is more stable? - Correct Answer The "institutional model" is
more stable than the "soul mate model."
More than how many children see their parents divorce every year? - Correct Answer 1
million
Growth of single parenthood. - Correct Answer 55% of kids will spend time outside intact
family in 2013. 20% of kids will spend time outside intact family in 1960.
, Most children from single parent homes turn out ____. - Correct Answer OKAY
Crime:
Boys without a father in the house are _____ times more likely to be incarcerated by 30. -
Correct Answer 2-3
Teenage girls are more likely to _______ if dad leaves. - Correct Answer get pregnant.
Children from divorced homes are caught between ____ - Correct Answer "two worlds"
Conflict and divorce:
• Low conflict divorces make up about ____ of all divorces involving children.
• High conflict divorces make up about ____ of all divorces involving children. - Correct
Answer • Low conflict divorces make up about *2/3* of all divorces involving children.
• High conflict divorces make up about *1/3* of all divorces involving children.
A nation divided by marriage:
• Deepening marital divide in America leaves poor and working class adults and especially
children ______ disadvantaged. Why? - Correct Answer doubly disadvantaged:
• Fewer socioeconomic resources
• Don't benefit from stable two parent households
Why couples divorce? (Give one reason for both men and women) - Correct Answer
Stonewalling - men
Contempt - women
Why couples divorce?
1) Socioeconomic factors
2) Gender issues
3) Religion - Correct Answer 1) Socioeconomic factors
• Male unemployment or underemployment
2) Gender issues
• Intimacy & empathy are expected from women
Percentage of first marriages ending in divorce? (1960 compared to now) - Correct Answer
20% in 1960 vs. 43% now
What are the five factors of the Divorce Revolution during the 1960s and 1970s? - Correct
Answer 1) Sexual Revolution
2) Psychological Revolution
3) Women's Rise in Status
4) Secularization
5) Divorce contagion
More than ___% of adults have been divorced. - Correct Answer 20%
Expressive Individualism - Correct Answer affluence and education foster a turn towards
self/feelings/fulfillment
Decline in affiliation & attendance in church. Compare 1952 to 2008 for both. - Correct
Answer No affiliation: 2% in 1952, 17% in 2008
Attendance: 47% in 1952, 33% in 2008
Divorce contagion - Correct Answer In the 1970s when couple imitated behavior of
everyone else and divorce was a way to deal with marital trouble
Coming from a broken home increases your divorce risk by __%. - Correct Answer 89%
Which is model of marriage is more stable? - Correct Answer The "institutional model" is
more stable than the "soul mate model."
More than how many children see their parents divorce every year? - Correct Answer 1
million
Growth of single parenthood. - Correct Answer 55% of kids will spend time outside intact
family in 2013. 20% of kids will spend time outside intact family in 1960.
, Most children from single parent homes turn out ____. - Correct Answer OKAY
Crime:
Boys without a father in the house are _____ times more likely to be incarcerated by 30. -
Correct Answer 2-3
Teenage girls are more likely to _______ if dad leaves. - Correct Answer get pregnant.
Children from divorced homes are caught between ____ - Correct Answer "two worlds"
Conflict and divorce:
• Low conflict divorces make up about ____ of all divorces involving children.
• High conflict divorces make up about ____ of all divorces involving children. - Correct
Answer • Low conflict divorces make up about *2/3* of all divorces involving children.
• High conflict divorces make up about *1/3* of all divorces involving children.
A nation divided by marriage:
• Deepening marital divide in America leaves poor and working class adults and especially
children ______ disadvantaged. Why? - Correct Answer doubly disadvantaged:
• Fewer socioeconomic resources
• Don't benefit from stable two parent households
Why couples divorce? (Give one reason for both men and women) - Correct Answer
Stonewalling - men
Contempt - women
Why couples divorce?
1) Socioeconomic factors
2) Gender issues
3) Religion - Correct Answer 1) Socioeconomic factors
• Male unemployment or underemployment
2) Gender issues
• Intimacy & empathy are expected from women
