Define gender.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Gender refers to learned attitudes and behaviors that characterize women and men. Gender is based on social and cultural expectations rather than on physical traits. Thus, most people are born either male or female, but people learn to be women or men because people internalize behavior patterns expected of each sex.
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The individual is
a. the most important source of social change. b. sometimes influential in social change, but it is difficult for an individual to change social organization. c. not a force for social change; social structure and culture prevent individuals from having any impact.
Medical sociology is the analysis of the field and practice of medicine.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
List and briefly discuss the two costs of racism presented in the text.
What will be an ideal response?
What explains the differences in sexual activity of men and women 75–85 years old?
a) Women are more likely to be without a partner. b) Men lose the ability to engage in sexual activity. c) Men married much younger women. d) Women tend to be asexual.