How does power play a part in gender difference?

(a) It is about the power individual men have over individual women, for instance in the home and in the workplace.
(b) Both men and women have power, but in extremely different forms and realms; sociology helps us understand how women's power and men's power function within and come from the larger social structure and how women's individual power is not the same as male/masculine privilege.
(c) It is about the power men as a group have over women as a group, as well as the power some men have over other men (or some women have over other women).
(d) Neither men nor women have power, but the gendered institutions in our lives do have power.


(b) Both men and women have power, but in extremely different forms and realms; sociology helps us understand how women's power and men's power function within and come from the larger social structure and how women's individual power is not the same as male/masculine privilege.

Sociology

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a. true b. false

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a. true b. false

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a. They are both benefits granted through marriage. b. They are both benefits granted through cohabitation. c. They are both benefits granted to heterosexuals. d. They are both benefits granted to adults only.

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Why was it necessary for the world's most powerful nations to accept Russia as a member of the Group of 7 and to be considering China for membership?

What will be an ideal response

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