MARRIAGE AND FAMILY EXAM 1
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS. A+ GRADE 2025/2026.
2 or more people living together who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption - ANS how
does the US census bureau define family?
cooperate economically, care for children, consider their identity to be intimately connected to
a larger group. - ANS members of a family may: (3)
family of orientation - ANS family that you're born into
family of procreation - ANS the family that you make marriage, parenting, and or parenthood
fictive kin - ANS non relatives w/ strong and intimate bonds
1. regulation of sexual behavior; 2. reproduction and the socialization of children; 3. property
and inheritance; 4. economic cooperation - ANS 4 functions of families
social institution - ANS a major sphere of social life with a set of beliefs and rules that are
organized to meet basic human needs
polygyny - ANS more than one wife
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, polyandry - ANS more than one husband
neolocal - ANS couple lives seperately from family
patrilocal - ANS couple lives with his parents
matrilocal - ANS couple lives with her family
emperical approach - ANS method that answers ? through a systematic collection and
analysis of data
structural functionalism - ANS dominant sociological perspective in the 40s and 50s; focuses
on stability and cooperation
conflict theory - ANS focuses on inequality and power and social change
feminist theory - ANS inequality and power imbalance between the genders
social exchange - ANS individuals as rational w/ behavior that reflects decisions based on teh
basis of costs
symbolic interaction - ANS symbols and interpretations used in every day life
developmental - ANS focuses on the stages that individuals and families experience over
time
systems theory - ANS family members and the roles they play are greater than the sum of
their parts
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QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS. A+ GRADE 2025/2026.
2 or more people living together who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption - ANS how
does the US census bureau define family?
cooperate economically, care for children, consider their identity to be intimately connected to
a larger group. - ANS members of a family may: (3)
family of orientation - ANS family that you're born into
family of procreation - ANS the family that you make marriage, parenting, and or parenthood
fictive kin - ANS non relatives w/ strong and intimate bonds
1. regulation of sexual behavior; 2. reproduction and the socialization of children; 3. property
and inheritance; 4. economic cooperation - ANS 4 functions of families
social institution - ANS a major sphere of social life with a set of beliefs and rules that are
organized to meet basic human needs
polygyny - ANS more than one wife
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, polyandry - ANS more than one husband
neolocal - ANS couple lives seperately from family
patrilocal - ANS couple lives with his parents
matrilocal - ANS couple lives with her family
emperical approach - ANS method that answers ? through a systematic collection and
analysis of data
structural functionalism - ANS dominant sociological perspective in the 40s and 50s; focuses
on stability and cooperation
conflict theory - ANS focuses on inequality and power and social change
feminist theory - ANS inequality and power imbalance between the genders
social exchange - ANS individuals as rational w/ behavior that reflects decisions based on teh
basis of costs
symbolic interaction - ANS symbols and interpretations used in every day life
developmental - ANS focuses on the stages that individuals and families experience over
time
systems theory - ANS family members and the roles they play are greater than the sum of
their parts
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