Compare and contrast parental responses to their sons playing with Barbie dolls and their sons playing with baby dolls.
What will be an ideal response?
Many parents reported positiveresponses to baby dolls, viewing these as encouraging nurturance and helping toprepare sons for fatherhood. Barbie, on the other hand, an icon of femininity, struckmany parents of sons as more problematic. Barbie was often mentioned when parentswere asked whether their child had ever requested an item or activity more commonlyassociated with the other gender.
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Durkheim found that Protestant suicide rates tend to be higher where Protestants are in the minority
a. true b. false
What are the five categories of interpersonal relations that form the basis of the Confucian teachings that Koreans follow?
What will be an ideal response?
An analysis of sociocultural evolution that distinguishes between preindustrial and industrial societies was developed by
A. Ferdinand Tönnies. B. Gerhard Lenski. C. Jonathan Kozol. D. William I. Thomas.
Which of the following is NOT a cause of increased depression among the young in recent decades?
a) a shortage of psychiatric services b) lack of parental love and affection c) increases in social stress d) reduced social resources for dealing with social stress