From Another PlanetIn this exercise, you will analyze the messages about gender conveyed in a magazine.Imagine that you are from another planet and know nothing about gender expectations in American society. Pick an American magazine and examine it for clues about what is required of women and men in this society. Spend some time looking at your magazine's depiction of men and women as a reference to learn your new culture, then answer the following questions:What are men expected to be like in American society? How should they look, dress, behave, and so on?
What will be an ideal response?
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a. true b. false
Travis Hirschi argues in his control theory that what discourages crime is
a. being in the middle class or the upper social class. b. having strong social ties that integrate the person within the community. c. having good genes. d. not being labeled as likely to commit crimes.
Which of the following is true about lynching?
a. Most of the victims of lynching in the South were white b. Lynching increased after the end of slavery as whites felt their status threatened c. There were fewer with the decline of the cotton plantations d. Lynchings were most likely to take place in the Northeast
Currently, six companies control 90 percent of all U.S. media.This is an example of a(n) _____.
A. monarchy B. monopoly C. oligopoly D. anarchy E. autocracy