Ehrensaft (cited by Aulette) identified seven positive effects resulting from mothers and fathers sharing parenting activities traditionally identified as mothering. These advantages include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. Liberating women from full-time mothering.
b. Allowing men more access to children.
c. Putting pressure on political, economic, and social structures for such changes as paternity leave, job sharing and child care.
d. Giving women more time to pursue career and financial success.
d
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Which of these is a sustained and intentional collective effort to bring about or to retard social change?
A. collective behavior B. collectivity C. social movement D. riot
_________________ refers to a reciprocal pattern of interaction in which one participant assumes a competent, caretaking position in relation to the other who assumes a dependent, child-like position
a. overfunctioning/underfunctioning b. parentification c. undifferentiation of self d. triangulation
With which of these statements about social problems would Symbolic Interactionists agree?
A. Behaviors leading to social problems are biological. B. All social problems result from inequality in the social structure. C. All social problems have functions and dysfunctions for society. D. Objective social problems do not exist; they become real only if they are defined and labeled.
Within the U.S., which of the following family functions has increased in importance since the colonial era?
a. care of dependents b. status ascription c. provision of intimacy d. sexual regulation