The fact that the Navajo recognize nadle as a third sex, the Tahitians recognize the mahu, and the Lakota recognize the wintke, supports the perspective that sex is:
A. unimportant to all cultures.
B. socially constructed.
C. always connected to gender.
D. an innate biological characteristic.
Answer: B
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1. Homer Plessy was the judge who mandated segregated facilities in the South at the end of the last century. 2. Beliefs about African Americans still emphasize their cultural inferiority. 3. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was designed to overrule the "black codes" emerging in the South after the Civil War. 4. It is during the first half of the 20th century that the legal basis of discrimination at state and local levels in the South was dismantled. 5. The public is hostile toward affirmative action.
The students of a university in Massachusetts were asked to evaluate their professors and the courses they teach. The results revealed that most of the students gave a very low rating to one of their professors because they did not like his teaching techniques. The data collected in this scenario is most likely to lack _____.
A. complexity B. probability C. validity D. nonprobability E. flexibility
Symbolic interactionists emphasize the a. economic basis of behavior
b. role of culture in creating social solidarity. c. manifest and latent functions of culture. d. social construction of culture.
Which of the following terms is a compensatory strategy for managing a visible stigma?
A. fabrication B. acknowledgment C. concealment D. signaling