Identification: Gender

What will be an ideal response?


ANS: Gender refers to the traits, behaviors, and assumptions linked to masculinity and femininity. Individuals perform gender roles; however, those roles are created and defined by society at large. Gender varies over time and between and within cultures.

Sociology

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Building social relationships and creating tens of thousands of jobs are two of the ____ of sports

a. manifest functions b. latent functions c. dysfunctions d. non-functions

Sociology

In order to understand the culture of a small, rural, isolated mountain town during tourist season, Jane decides to live there, meet and talk to people, and experience the town's daily routines. Jane's research would be considered ______.

A. netnography B. a laboratory experiment C. ethnography D. a natural experiment

Sociology

Which one of the following is a description of a new social movement?

A. an environmental social movement that focuses on the interconnection of all the world's people and resources B. a local workers' protest against poor wages and working conditions C. a civil rights protest movement in a major American city D. All these answers are correct.

Sociology

The traditional family in the United States includes __________

a. homosexual parents b. heterosexual parents c. heterosexual or homosexual parents d. binuclear or blended configurations

Sociology