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Questions:
1. Define personal families, legal families, and the family as an institutional arena. Give examples of each and explain how they are different from one another.
2. How was the U.S. Census's definition of a family changed over time?
3. When it comes to understanding families, how are structural functionalist and conflict theoretical perspectives different? Contrast how the two theories might explain the breadwinner-homemaker family.
4. Describe three significant contributions of feminist theory to sociologists understanding of contemporary families.
5. Why is exchange theory part of the consensus tradition of perspectives? Given an example of how an exchange theorist might explain housework.
6. According to modernity theorists, what distinguishes first modernity from second modernity? What are the implicants for relationships?
7. What are some of the strategies sociologists use to avoid bias in their research?
8. What are the advantages of surveys, in depth interviews, and time use studies? Why would sociologists pick one method over another to study families?