What are the three dynamics that shape how news broadcasters build audiences for men’s sports while positioning women’s sports as unimportant?
What will be an ideal response?
(1) Sports news is presented as entertainment, often including stories that humorously portray the lighter and human side of men’s sports; (2) producers and commentators actively choose to construct an exciting and pleasurable experience for consuming the coverage of men’s sports, while ignoring women’s sports; and (3) as is the case with the rest of the sports news coverage, most of these stories focus only on certain men’s sports.
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A) pacifist. B) patrilocal. C) egalitarian. D) matrilineal.
Discuss the courtship process today. How has it changed?
What will be an ideal response?
Adler and Adler report that once established in the drug world, dealers and smugglers entered into
a. a mature, success stage where rewards of profession are compared to negatives and rewards still tip in balance of staying with profession. b. a middle phase of aging in the career, characterized by a loss of thrill with job, burnout caused by huge drug consumption, fears of arrest or death. c. a middle phase of enchantment and thrill caused by huge drug and party scene with high rewards and low risks. d. exit phase in their career where they decided the best option was to get out ASAP.
One of the major arguments that opponents of same-sex marriage have tried to advance is that childbearing and child rearing are crucial to the preservation of the family. What does the data on same-sex households reveal quite clearly in the matter of children in same-sex households?
a. Any children in a same-sex household are adopted. b. Almost no same-sex couples have children. c. About 20 percent of same-sex couples have children. d. Same-sex households with children are much less stable than opposite-sex couples.