Provide meanings of gender are arbitrary.
What will be an ideal response?
a. Different cultures have drastically different conceptions of masculinity and femininity.
b. Body ideals for men and women change by time, culture, and geographic location.
c. Some cultures consider gender to be changeable across the lifespan, and some recognize more than two genders.
d. The meaning of gender can even change over time in a single culture or social group.
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Which of the following is an example of social structure?
A) a student reading a sociology textbook B) a social worker watching a panel discussion on television C) a homeless man sleeping on a sidewalk heating grate D) a driver signaling a right turn with his directional signals
Men who are intimate terrorists:
A) are rare; women are much more likely to be intimate terrorists. B) have very few commonalities; each tends to be very different from the next in terms of previous experience with conflict or attitudes toward women. C) tend to abuse their partners but no one else. D) often give clues to their tendency toward violence early in their relationships.
Ralf Dahrendorf wrote "It is immeasurably difficult to trace the path on which a person…encounters other people just like himself, and at a certain point says ‘Let us join hands, friends, so that no-one will push us off one by one.'" Dahrendorf was writing about the forces that lead to
a. globalization-from-above. c. globalization-from-below. b. social movements. d. awareness of objective deprivation.
A nominal measure can only have five categories
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false