A matriarchy is a society in which
A. women hold no authority at all.
B. women and men hold equal amounts of authority.
C. women hold greater authority than men.
D. men hold greater authority than women.
Answer: C
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a) Jane because she has more social capital in the community to help her. b) Amanda because the baby's father's family has connections. c) Amanda because employers will view Jane as having too many obligations. d) Jane only if she has better skills that are valuable to an employer.
Feminist theory states that gender figures into the study of deviance because ________
a. women account for most of the arrests for serious crimes in the United States. b. every society in the world applies stronger normative controls to females than to males. c. most researchers in this area are women. d. women are more likely than men to commit a serious crime.
Sarah is a college admissions officer who does not hold prejudicial attitudes about Hispanic people. She negatively evaluates a Hispanic applicant because she has "no cultural flavor" in her application. This shows that
a. only prejudiced people will discriminate. b. discrimination is unavoidable, but prejudicial attitudes are not. c. patterns of discrimination are easily fixed by individuals. d. people who are not prejudiced can discriminate.