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Mobility of individual members and family groups tends to split up family relationships. Occasionally the movement of a family a

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问题     Mobility of individual members and family groups tends to split up family relationships. Occasionally the movement of a family away from a situation which has been the source of Conflict results in greater family organization, but on the whole mobility is disorganizing.
    Individuals and families are involved in three types of mobility: movement in space, movement up or down in social status, and the movement of ideas. These are termed respectively spatial(空间的), vertical, and ideational(概念的)mobility.
    A great increase in spatial mobility has gone along with improvements in rail and water’transportation, the invention and use of the automobile, and the availability of airplane passenger service. Spatial mobility results in a decline in the importance of the traditional home with its emphasis on family continuity and stability. Even more important is the fact that spatial mobility permits some members of a family to come in contact with and possibly adopt attitudes, values, and ways of thinking different from those held by other family members. The presence of different attitudes, values, and ways of thinking within a family way, and often does, result in conflict and family disorganization. Potential disorganization is present in those families in which the husband, wife, and children are spatially separated over a long period, or are living together but see each other only briefly because of different work schedules.
    One index of the increase in vertical mobility is the great increase in the proportion of sons, and to some extent daughters, who engages in occupations other than those of the parents. Another index of vertical mobility is the degree of intermarriage between social classes. This occurs al- most exclusively between classes which are adjacent(邻近的)to each other. Engaging in a different occupation, or intermarriage, like spatial mobility, allows one to come in contact with ways of behavior different from those of the parental home, and tends to separate parents and their children.
    The increase in ideational mobility is measured by the increase in publications, such as news papers, magazines, and books, the increase in the percentage of the population owning radios, and the increase in television sets. All these tend to introduce new ideas into the home. When individual family members are exposed to and adopt the new ideas, the tendency is for conflict to arise and for those in conflict to become psychologically separated from each other.
Intermarriage and different occupations play an important role in family disorganization because ______.
选项 A、they enable the children to travel around without their parents
B、they allow one to find a good job and improve one’s social status
C、they permit one to come into contact with different ways of behavior and thinking
D、they enable the children to better understand the ways of behavior of their parents
答案C
解析 事实细节题。题干中的Intermarriage and different occupations出现在第四段最后一句。这句话中的allows．．．和and tends to．．．是两个并列的谓语，而且暗含着因果关系--正因为从事不同的职业和联姻allows one to come in contact with ways of behavior different．．．，才导致了父母和孩子的分开。选项C是对“allows．．．”这个分句的同义转述，符合题干要求。
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