A recent study asked a sample of adults, "If you could only have one child, would you prefer to have a son or a daughter?" What were the results, and who is more likely to have a preference? Drawing upon information throughout this chapter, what may explain these preferences?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Most people prefer a son. Second choice is that it doesn't matter. Preference for a daughter is third (last).
2. Men, younger people, those with less education, Republicans, and conservatives are more likely to prefer sons.
3. Reasons? Patriarchy, hegemony, sexism.
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Vietnameseowned nail salons instituted a business model that been referred to as
a. traditionoriented. b. value rational. c. McNail. d. family oriented.
?The Milgram study provides evidence that obedience to even seemingly unreasonable authority may be more common than most of us would like to believe.
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
In society X, there is much ethnic diversity; conflict among the different groups is comparatively mild though at times high; class and ethnicity generally overlap; and the degree of segregation among various ethnic groups differs on the basis of salient physical and cultural characteristics. Society X is a(n) ______________ society
a. colonial b. corporate pluralistic c. assimilationist d. segregationist
What groups within the queer community do scholars feel deserve special focus?
What will be an ideal response?