Identify a true statement about sociologists Talcott Parsons and Robert Bales.
A. They contended that men take the expressive, emotionally supportive role and women the instrumental, practical role, with the two complementing each other.
B. They viewed the traditional arrangement of gender roles as arising out of the need to establish a division of labor between marital partners.
C. They viewed women's subordination as part of the overall exploitation and injustice they see as inherent in capitalist societies.
D. They explicitly presented the expressive and instrumental tasks as being of unequal value to society.
Answer: B
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