The belief that masculinity and what men do in our culture is superior to femininity and what women do is known as:

a. gender identity
b. androcentrism
c. gender schema
d. gender polarization


b. androcentrism

Sociology

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Elijah works hard and gets a scholarship to a state university, where he graduates with honors, then goes on to law school. Neither of Elijah's parents went to college. His income easily exceeds theirs. Elijah has experienced:

a. intergenerational mobility b. horizontal mobility c. social drift d. exchange mobility

Sociology

The correspondence principle refers to the tendency of

A. students to develop values and attitudes that are similar to those of their elementary school teachers. B. schools to place physically handicapped children in classes with peers who are at a similar academic level, regardless of physical condition. C. schools to promote the values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class. D. parents to place their children in private schools that teach social values that are similar to their own.

Sociology

What did the sharecropper have to do in order to use the plantation owner's land, farming tools, and mules?

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology

Heterosexual inmates often feel compelled to engage in homosexual behavior due to the conditions of confinement in prisons of the United States.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

Sociology