Some nuclear families, however, may add one or more grandparents to come to live with them, that is three generations. This kind of family with grandparents, parents, and grandchildren is called an extended family. This family type was not very common during the later half of the twentieth century, but it's becoming more common now as an elderly grandparent moves in to live with a son or daughter. This is more possible now that American homes have become larger. What is interesting, however, is that after the grandchildren move out of the home and start their own families, this extended family shrinks back to a nuclear family, with just two generations again living together, a grandparent and parents, with the grandchildren coming only for occasional visits.
Now, the fatherless or motherless family is one kind of what we call a single-parent family. In the fatherless family it's just the mother and her children. As I said, this can be the result of the husband's death, of an unmarried mother, of a separation or divorce. There are also a growing number of motherless families--where the father raises the children, for any of the same reasons. A motherless family may also be fatherless, but still a family with one adult. This is becoming more common in the big cities where a grandmother will raise her daughter's children while the daughter goes elsewhere to work.
One other new kind of family is becoming increasingly more common. A single parent with one or more children will marry again. Perhaps the other parent is also a single parent. Together they will start what is called a blended family, which blends together or combines the children from two other families.
An extended family usually has ______.
A.two generations
B.three generations
C.four generations
D.one generation
In conducting research on culture and ethnic minority issues, investigators distinguish between the emic approach and the etic approach. In the emic approach, the goal is to describe behavior. in one culture or ethnic group in terms that are meaningful and wit to the People in that culture or ethnic group, without regard to other cultures or ethnic groups. In the etic approach, the goal is to describe behavior. so that generalizations can be made across cultures. If researchers construct a questionnaire in an emic fashion, their concern is only that the questions are meaningful to the particular culture or ethnic group being studied. If, however, the researchers construct a questionnaire in an etic fashion, they want to include questions that reflect concepts familiar to all cultures involved.
How might the emic and etic approaches be reflected in the study of family processes? In the emic approach, the researchers might choose to focus only on middle-class White families, without regardfor whether the information obtained in the study can be generalized or is appropriate for ethic minority groups. In a subsequent study the researchers may decide to adopt an etic approach by studying not only middle-class, White families, but also lower-income White families, Black American families, Spanish American families, and Asian American families. In studying in ethic minority families, the researchers would likely discover that the extended family is more frequently a support system in ethnic minority families than in White American families. If so, the emic approach would reveal a different pattern of family interaction than would the etic approach, documenting that research with middle-class White families cannot always be generalized to all ethnic groups.
61.According to the first paragraph, researchers unfamiliar with the target cultures are inclined to ____.
A.be overcautious in constructing meaningful measures
B.view them from their own cultural perspective
C.guard against interference from their own culture
D.accept readily what is alien to their own culture
62.What does the author say about the emic approach and the etic approach_____
A.They have different research focuses in the study of ethnic issues.
B.The former is biased while the latter is objective.
C.The former concentrates on the study of culture while the latter on family issues.
D.They are both heavily dependent on questionnaires in conducting surveys.
63.Compared with the etic approach, the emic approach is apparently more ____.
A.culturally interactive
B.culture-oriented
C.culturally biased
D.culture-specific
64.The etic approach is concerned with____.
A.the general characteristics of minority families
B.culture-related concepts of individual ethnic groups
C.features shared by various cultures or ethnic groups
D.the economic conditions of different types of families
65.Which of the following is true of the ethnic minority families in theUSAaccording to the passage_____
A.Their cultural patterns are usually more adaptable.
B.Their cultural concepts are difficult to comprehend.
C.They don't interact with each other so much as White families.
D.They have closer family ties than White families.
A.IS reachability
B.Extended IS reachability
C.IP internal reachability
D.Extended IP reachability
Why aren't people enjoying better lives when they have jobs?
A.Because many families are divorced.
B.Because government aid is now rare.
C.Because their wages are low.
D.Because the cost of living is rising.
A.Families Having Fewer Children Nowadays
B.Couples Having More Children Nowadays
C.Women Being Likely to Have More Children
A. Models of 164 families of flowering plants.
B. Magnified details of flower parts.
C. Several species of native birds.
D. A group of diseased fruits.
This small village is made up of 200 families ______ five nationalities.
A.belonged
B.belonged to
C.belonging
D.belonging to
A.as long as
B.so that
C.until
D.and therefore
Critics of Wallerstein's study ______.
A. think the number of families studied was too small
B. think that all the factors were considered
C. think that divorce is not painful
D. think that healthy families do not have problems
Parents with large families ask fewer questions at dinner because 。
A. they are busy serving food to their children
B. they are busy keeping order at the dinner table
C. they have to pay more attention to younger children
D. they are tired out having prepared food for the whole family
Young people are very important in the USA in that ______.
A.many of them will soon be in charge of the country
B.older people are always trying to understand them
C.they are active and interesting
D.they always make trouble in families