2.3 Social changes and family relationships Quiz: WJEC Eduqas Sociology, Unit 2

The 20 questions

1. What term describes couples where partners maintain separate, gender-based roles?

   • Symmetrical relationships
   • Segregated conjugal roles
   • Egalitarian partnerships
   • Joint conjugal roles

2. What term describes couples who share household tasks rather than dividing them by gender?

   • Patriarchal structures
   • Joint conjugal roles
   • Traditional households
   • Segregated conjugal roles

3. What is a key feature of a symmetrical family?

   • Strict gender division
   • Segregated domestic tasks
   • Male financial dominance
   • Similar partner roles

4. What does 'domestic division of labour' refer to in sociology?

   • School timetables
   • Factory shift patterns
   • Employment pay grades
   • Sharing housework tasks

5. Which concept describes a modern father who is more involved in childcare and housework?

   • The Old Breadwinner
   • The New Man
   • The Patriarch
   • The Dual Worker

6. What sociological concept covers how partners share authority over spending and child-rearing?

   • Social mobility
   • Cultural transmission
   • Family decision-making
   • Primary socialisation

7. Which term refers to families where both partners have careers and each contributes to household income?

   • Stem families
   • Extended families
   • Dual career families
   • Single income families

8. Which trend reflects changing leisure patterns within modern family relationships?

   • Isolated outdoor work
   • Compulsory community clubs
   • Shared home activities
   • Total segregated hobbies

9. What is the theory of the symmetrical family associated with?

   • Durkheim and Parsons
   • Willmott and Young
   • Davis and Moore
   • Marx and Engels

10. What does the principle of stratified diffusion suggest about family patterns?

    • Spread from upper classes
    • Originates in working classes
    • Spreads randomly everywhere
    • Develops in rural areas

11. What defines child-centred families in modern society?

    • Minimising parental spending
    • Prioritising children's needs
    • Ignoring youth education
    • Isolating children indoors

12. What term describes an adult child returning home to live with parents?

    • Orphaned youth
    • Boomerang child
    • Extended relative
    • Dependent infant

13. Which term describes adults caring for both dependent children and elderly parents simultaneously?

    • Extended family
    • Empty nesters
    • Boomerang generation
    • Sandwich generation

14. Which social change is linked to couples sharing money management equally?

    • Abolition of banking systems
    • Decline of female employment
    • Women's economic independence
    • Rise of patriarchal norms

15. How can digital technology affect modern family relationships?

    • Changing communication methods
    • Eliminating all conflicts
    • Ensuring constant harmony
    • Stopping face-to-face interaction

16. Which factor describes parents working long hours reducing time spent with children?

    • Secularisation trends
    • Economic pressures
    • Demographic aging
    • Feminist ideologies

17. What is a New Man's typical role in a dual career family?

    • Avoiding all childcare
    • Working sole provider
    • Refusing housework entirely
    • Sharing domestic work

18. What pattern of domestic labour do sociologists argue still persists despite modern trends?

    • Symmetrical family
    • Segregated roles
    • Equitable division
    • Matriarchal households

19. Where do modern families tend to spend much of their leisure time together?

    • At local pubs
    • At workplace clubs
    • At home
    • In separate towns

20. What term describes how parents raise, discipline and socialise their children?

    • Conjugal roles
    • Social stratification
    • Child-rearing patterns
    • Stratified diffusion

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