Distinguish between hermaphrodites and transsexuals
What will be an ideal response?
While both are ambiguous sexual categories, they are distinctly different phenomena. Hermaphrodites are people who are born with both male and female sexual characteristics. Transsexuals, or intersexuals, on the other hand are people who feel strongly that the sexual organs they were born with do not conform with what they feel their sex should be. Both conditions may lead to sex-change surgery.
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a. racial profiling b. driving while black c. the dramatic fallacy d. the inequality effect
During the slavery period, the rape of Black women by White or Black men was:
a. legal b. illegal c. subject to the death penalty d. infrequent and illegal
One major weakness of cultural transmission theory is that it fails to explain
a. why most people raised in crime-ridden environments do not become deviants. b. how deviance is learned. c. how deviance is transmitted from generation to generation. d. how deviance is transmitted from one ethnic group to another. e. how anomie is related to deviance.
Which of the following statements is true of the views supported by symbolic interaction theory?
A) ?Society is composed of interrelated parts that work to maintain society's cohesion. B) ?Society as a whole should be kept at the center of sociological research. C) Gender inequality is the major source of inequality in society.? D) ?People act on the basis of the meaning they attribute to others. E) ?People always separate their personal values, opinions, ideology, and beliefs from scientific research.