University of New Orleans

SOCIOLOGY 4104

CH 10

1)Elizabeth Warren and her colleagues found that bankruptcy filings                                       

between 1980 and 2005.

2. Labor secretary Robert Reich estimated that part-time or contingent workers make up about                of the existing work force at the time Rubin's study was conducted.

3. Skolnick cites a study in which children were                     percent more likely to repeat a grade when the head of a household loses their job.

4. The manufacturing sector, which employed well over 26 percent of American workers in 1970 is expected to drop to                                                                                   by the year 2000.

5. Which statement is least true of the American economy today?

6. Divorce's impact on the family is discussed much more often than the impact of bankruptcy on families.

7. Economic security is still a defining feature of middle class life in the United States.

8. Financial stress in families can negatively impact children's academic performance.

9. Middle class families' economic troubles are due to their desire for McMansions and expensive consumer goods.

10. Structural changes in the nation's economy greatly affect family life.

11. The majority of workers displaced by downsizing and corporate moves will eventually find other work equivalent to their previous jobs.

12. The use of contingent workers is becoming so common that temporary employment agencies are replacing old permanent placement ones.