Compare and contrast women and men's gender roles and the obstacles that either face if they start adhering to roles that are considered inappropriate.

What will be an ideal response?


Answers will vary.

Sociology

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Although there is less gender inequality today than there was a century ago, people today are more likely to view gender inequality as a social problem than people were back then. This pattern reflects the fact that

a. what we subjectively perceive always reflects what is objectively true. b. we now expect men and women to be socially unequal. c. we now expect men and women to be socially equal. d. people simply don't agree on what important social problems are.

Sociology

The code of the street refers to the:

a. idea proposed by Wilson, that some are truly disadvantaged b. notion proposed by Anderson, that inner city youth adopt different cultural values to survive c. idea proposed by Durheim, that racism can be functional for a society when it leads to new laws d. proposal that racial minorities make up most of the street people

Sociology

__________ theorists take the view that some forms of crime and other types of deviance result from the inability of some groups, such as the poor, to maintain their traditional structures in settings of rapid social change

a. Conflict b. Functional c. Interactionist d. Labeling e. Group dynamics

Sociology

Components in the social structure that address a basic social need is a (n)

A. social organization. B. social institution. C. hierarchy. D. cultural context.

Sociology