How can gender role expectations become self-fulfilling prophecies?
What will be an ideal response?
Varies. Students should discuss that before birth, parents attach assumptions about the physical and psychological makeup of their baby one they find out its sex. These assumptions are based on the cultural assumptions attached to that gender in society. Parents begin purchasing "boy" colors and "boy" toys for babies because they are told that's simply what you do in our society. Given the tendency of children to want to live up to their parents' expectations, we can see how these gender-role expectations become self-fulfilling prophecies.
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a. Max Weber b. Emile Durkheim c. Karl Marx d. Auguste Comte
In the context of the stages of the self, "significant others" is:
A. George Herbert Mead's term for the sum total of people's conscious perception of their identity as distinct from others. B. Charles Horton Cooley's term for a child's awareness of the attitudes, viewpoints, and expectations of society as a whole. C. George Herbert Mead's term for those individuals who are most important in the development of the self. D. George Herbert Mead's term for altering the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.
Intimate partner violence results in all of the following EXCEPT
a. higher rates of miscarriage and birth defects. b. interference with women's employment. c. loss of economic resources and homelessness among women. d. more egalitarian relationships
________ is defined as alterations in the environment that make it less habitable or useful for people or other living things.
What will be an ideal response?