Describe the role of social forces that affect sex and gender development from the prenatal stage through infancy.
What will be an ideal response?
Parents have different expectations for children from the moment they find out
whether they are having a boy or a girl. As a result of social forces, parents buy different
clothing and toys for boys and girls and set different expectations for them, leading to
behavioral differences people often assume are innate due to them occurring so early in
the child’s life.
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Which theoretical perspective points out that women and men are segregated into different occupational categories in the workforce?
A. functionalist B. interactionist C. feminist D. conflict
All of the following are examples of a nominal variable EXCEPT
A) hair color. B) religious affiliation. C) Social Security number. D) score on an IQ test.
A scientific company lays off employees by seniority, retaining those that have been employed the longest. The majority of the female employees had been hired only in the past 10 years and were educated as part of the push to get more females into math and sciences. This situation is an example of
A. institutional discrimination. B. pluralism. C. instrumentality. D. expressiveness.
For every person killed, nearly ________ others are wounded by firearms.
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4