Elaborate on the importance of accomplishment and accountability to the author’s research.

What will be an ideal response?


Answers will vary but should include that the interactionist approach allows us to view parents not simply as agents of gender socialization but rather as actors involved in a more complex process of accomplishing gender with and for their children. Accountability is relevant not only when people are doing gender in accordance with the expectations of others but also when they resist or stray from such expectations.

Sociology

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a. labor market competition b. race c. brain drain d. land rights

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Online networks which indicate how many "friends" a profile has, can help build which of the following for an individual?

A. cultural capital B. cultural literacy C. social capital D. social literacy

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The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that

a. languages are universal. b. some languages, such as English, are superior to others. c. perception and language are unrelated. d. language has ways of looking at the world embedded within it.

Sociology

BMW is a brand of automobile that is associated with speed and luxury, while Volvo is associated with a great safety record. This illustrates which points about culture?

a. Material, cultural objects derive meaning from the way they are categorized relative to other objects in the same category. b. Material culture and symbolic culture are distinct and separate. c. There is no clear line between material and nonmaterial culture. d. Material culture is highly individualized.

Sociology