Which of the following factors explains why women are better at understanding nonverbal behavior than men are?

A gender differences in independence and interdependence—i.e., women are more likely to be interdependent.
B male tendency to under-encode emotion
C biological or genetic influence
D the fact that they often hold less power in relationships


Answer: D the fact that they often hold less power in relationships

Sociology

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Which of the following best describes Rosa Parks's role in the Montgomery bus boycott?

A. a spontaneous action by a woman who was simply tired of the status quo B. a deliberate action by a trained civil rights movement member C. a spontaneous action by a woman who was a new member of the NAACP D. a deliberate action by a woman who was "brought in" to Montgomery by the NAACP

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The category of the U.S. population in which women do most of the housework is ________

a. unemployed people. b. unmarried people. c. people with no children. d. employed, married, people who have children.

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1. The ability to divorce, the right to adopt, and even sexual practices can be determined by cultural traditions. 2. Very few, if any, countries, cultures, and religious groups also have rules, customs, and policies about the people whom its citizens should definitely not marry. 3. Men around the world typically retain more power in family dynamics than women do. 4. The international community and the UN have decided that individual human rights are significantly less important in some cases than cultural traditions. 5. The “modernization” of the family was completely the result of the general evolution of “the” family, as early family sociologists originally posited.

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