Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Social power is a type of power that involves decision making among intimate partners about their division of labor and their sense of entitlement.

2. Resource theory is a theory of power that suggests that the spouse with the most prestigious or highest-paying job can use that advantage to generate more power in the relationship, and thereby influence decision making.

3. A theory of power that suggests the partner with the least commitment to the relationship has the most power is known as the relative love and need theory.

4. “Doing gender” is a theory of power that suggests that we take power differentials among men and women for granted and continue to reproduce them.

5. Power operates in same-sex relationships as well as in heterosexual ones, although there are a few differences.


1. F
2. T
3. F
4. T
5. T

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