Explain the problems with self-reporting in determining what people spend their time on, and how sociologists have come up with better methods to study how heterosexual couples split their time between paid work, housework, and child care. What have they
found?
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
1. Self-reporting how we spend our time is extremely inaccurate. People either lie or have great difficulty accurately reporting how they have spent their time.
2. Time diary studies are much more effective. In this method, participants must record what they are doing at regular intervals throughout the day.
3. Through these studies, sociologists have found that, while women still do more child care and housework than men, men’s share of this work has been increasing since 1985 (and their time spent on paid work has been decreasing). Women’s paid work time has been increasing.
4. Women and men both are spending more time on child care.
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Which of the following statements regarding drugs and crime is true?
A. Jail or prison time alone has little effect on reducing drug addiction or on promoting recovery. B. The reason that crime is highly associated with the use of marijuana, barbiturates, and methamphetamine is because people who use these drugs can rarely support their habit on their own without resorting to crime. C. Research has shown that very few drug abusers have a criminal history except for those who use heroin. D. The crimes committed that are associated with drugs tend to be violent crimes such as murder or rape.
Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick testified that when at the Abu Ghraib Prison, "I questioned some of the things that I saw… such as leaving inmates in their cells with no clothes or in female underpants — and the answer I got was ,‘This is how military intelligence wants it done.'" The dynamics Frederick described best correspond with
a. Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority. b. Howard Becker's master status of deviant. c. Robert K. Merton's theory of structural strain. d. Edward Sutherland's theory of differential association.
The problems experienced by children of divorce seem to be mostly the result of:
a. poverty. b. their mothers working. c. not having both parents around all the time. d. being stigmatized.
What was the unit of analysis in this study?
a. Employment status b. Stable housing c. The child d. The single mother