Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. While some parents’ attitudes and communication about gender are becoming more egalitarian, much evidence of traditional stereotyping still exists.
2. Parents label and respond to their infants according to gendered stereotypes within hours of birth
3. Parents, particularly white middle-class parents, rewarding verbal and physical activity in sons and interpersonal and social skills in daughters.
4. Heterosexual fathers are particularly likely to encourage sons to be heterosexual. Gay fathers are more likely to resist normative expectations.
5. Mothers tend to communicate with children more than heterosexual fathers.
1. T
2. T
3. T
4. T
5. T
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a. the time they were born b. age 5 c. age 7 d. age 10
Middle-class parents tend to emphasize ______, while working-class parents emphasize _______ in their children
a. obedience? thrift b. autonomy? compliance c. grooming? hard work d. politeness? honesty
Which statement accurately describes why sociologists have begun favoring the phrase gender relations?
A) The previously favored term, gender roles, does not capture the complexity of gender nor suggest the ways in which masculinity is privileged in most societies. B) Sociologists are more interested now in the ways men and women relate than in the roles they perform. C) Research has begun to suggest that relationships are the main feature that shapes our gender identities. D) The gender roles concept was too heavily preoccupied with the roles of men and women in film and media.
Which pattern of descent is most typical in the U.S.?
A. bilateral B. patrilineal C. bilineal D. matrilineal