A researcher who is examining the criteria couples use to make decisions about how to divide housework is probably using which of the following frameworks?
a. Rational choice
b. Socialization
c. Socialist feminist
d. Symbolic interaction
a
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What will be an ideal response?
According to the text, Durkheim's major contribution to the discipline of sociology was the understanding of the a. effects of capitalism on society
b. social basis of human behavior. c. relationship that exists between man and nature. d. effect of verstehen on our conception of reality.
Theories of revolution and revolutionary social movements generally operate at which level of sociological analysis?
a. global b. macro c. micro d. middle
A working mother is looked down upon by other mothers at a school event because she does not volunteer at the school or attend activities during the school day. The other mothers see her as a bad mother. How would a sociologist explain this?
A. The mothers are judging the working mother based on society's expectations of intensive mothering. B. The mothers are looking at the working mother's failure to engage in reciprocity. C. The mothers are using concerted cultivation to get the working mother to volunteer. D. The mothers must socialize the children to proper roles and the working mother makes that difficult.