Discuss the views of Harriet Martineau on women's experience in marriage and enslaved Black people in the United States.
What will be an ideal response?
Martineau treated slavery and women's experience of dependence in marriage as indicators of the limits of the moral development of the United States. In her view, the United States was unable to achieve its full social potential while it was morally stunted by persistent injustices such as slavery and women's inequality.
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a. get outside himself, experientially, in such a way as to become an object to himself. b. become a part of the exchange network. c. integrate himself with the developmental sequence. d. avoid imitation.
Most Italian immigrants received jobs through a padrone. The padrone was a(n) ________
a. locally elected official b. second-generation United States citizen c. mass-immigration movement d. ethnic labor contractor
Which of the following is a component of the male script?
A. Men should know how to please a woman. B. A man’s looks are relatively unimportant, but his status is enhanced if he is with a beautiful woman. C. Good girls do not plan in advance to have sex or initiate it. D. Women should not know too much about sex or be too experienced.
A primary factor in children’s short-term and long-term adjustment to divorce is:
A. the sex of the child. B. how effectively the custodial parent—usually the mother—functions as a parent. C. whether the parent remarries. D. the sex of the parent the child lives with.