Lenore Walker (cited in Aulette) has been an advocate of the therapeutic model of treatment for domestic violence. In this model she argues that
a. social structural factors cause all different types of women to become battered.
b. men and women learn to play the roles of batterer and battered as children and are therefore socialized into their identities.
c. special attention should be placed on inequality between males and females in our society in order to reduce domestic violence.
d. the emphasis of treating domestic violence should focus more on the social context of the violence.
b
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Interactionist theories emphasize:
a. the socialization of boys and girls into identities b. the inequalities between boys and girls c. the playing of gendered roles by girls and boys d. the incorporation of gendered conceptions of self e. a, c, and d above
What did Higginbotham and Weber discover about women from working-class backgrounds who now occupied professional, managerial, and administrative positions in Memphis?
A) They were encouraged by their parents to get an education. B) They were in the top five percent of their graduating class. C) They were the eldest child in the family. D) They married into social classes higher than their own.
AP News Clip: Juvenile Locked Up for LifeClick on the above link to access the Interactive eBook. Once you've signed in, scroll to page 291, and watch the video. When you've finished watching the video, come back to the test, and answer the following questions:In the United States, African American and Hispanic youth are ______ to be arrested than white juveniles.
A. equally likely B. less likely C. more likely D. substantially less likely
______ are attributed to a position within a group or society while ______ are sets of culturally defined rights and duties.
A. Roles; statuses B. Formal statuses; informal statuses C. Statuses; roles D. Informal statuses; formal statuses