For every US$1.00 a man earns, a woman earns US$0.83. Provide two to three sociological explanations for the gender wage gap. Explore how this difference varies by race.
What will be an ideal response?
Varies. Occupational segregation by gender: the concentration of men and women in different occupations. Labor supply factors; labor demand factors; policies, legislation, and culture that devalues women's work; racism; and immigration.
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a. functionalism b. conflict theory c. symbolic interaction theory d. queer theory
In his experiments with monkeys raised in isolation, Harry Harlow found that these monkeys:
a. always preferred the imitation mother that gave them food. b. preferred a soft cloth imitation mother with no food over a hard wire "mother" with food. c. learned how to mate through instinct. d. eventually learned to be good mothers themselves. e. developed more quickly if the dolls were given tape-recorded monkey emotions.
Chapter 14 outlines the processes that must be followed for attending and participating at conferences. Discuss in detail the steps that generally lead to conference attendance and presentation.
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following is an example of past-in-present discrimination?
A. Three Black men were denied the opportunity to purchase a home in a White neighborhood. B. African Americans' lack of wealth due to housing discrimination makes the middle class a precarious position. C. White Americans deny the significance of slavery in shaping current inequalities. D. The police were called on a Black man due to assumptions that he was trespassing. E. White Americans often blame African Americans for their own subordination.