The fact that parents name their children Tom or Mary, dress them in pants or dresses, and send out birth announcements as blue or pink reflects that the family is:
a. a gendered institution
b. a sexist institution
c. an anachronistic institution
d. a historical institution
a
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Symbolic interactionism focuses on how social institutions contribute to the effective functioning of the larger society
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Sociologists who focus on a particular social and historical environment in which social change occurs, rather than focusing on a single factor, are using which perspective of social change?
A. contextual analysis B. cultural analysis C. structural analysis D. historical materialism
Liberation theology refers to
A. the use of a church, primarily the Muslim temple, in a political effort to eliminate poverty, discrimination, and other forms of injustice. B. people who support a literal interpretation of the book of Genesis. C. the use of a church, primarily the Roman Catholic Church, in a political effort to eliminate poverty, discrimination, and other forms of injustice. D. a religious organization that claims to include most of the members of a society.