Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The majority of young women seek a relationship in which both partners share work and home responsibilities, saying they would rather forgo a relationship than be in an unequal one.
2. According to Lamont, women in her study were more likely to explain men and women’s courtship behavior in terms of innate, biological tendencies.
3. More than two-thirds of the women in Lamont’s study said that they insisted on paying half of their first dates with men.
4. Almost all of the women in Lamont’s study described their ideal relationship as one in which partners shared breadwinning, housework, and child care relatively equally.
1. True
2. False
3. False
4. True
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A) They were less swayed by advertising than urban customers. B) They had less money to spend than urban customers. C) They had less interest in material goods than urban customers. D) They had less access to stores than urban customers. E) They were much more frugal than urban customers.
All of the following were results of European colonialism in Africa except
A. the spread of Islam. B. a native wage scale that was inferior to that of the Europeans. C. the restriction of Africans to unskilled or semi-skilled jobs. D. little opportunity for the native population to obtain professional or managerial positions. E. a mixed heritage of imperialism.
“Controlling images” are:
a. stereotypes that denigrate and objectify certain groups and justify their subordination. b. culturally established sets of behaviors that we have learned to associate with members of a particular gender. c. also known as “hegemonic femininities.” d. not a part of the social construction of categories of difference.
During World War II, the labor force of the United States
A. was forced to contend with a large labor surplus. B. saw both 16 million people leave civilian labor for the armed forces and the supply of civilian labor decline by 25 percent. C. None of these answers is correct. D. saw the supply of civilian labor decline by 25 percent. E. saw more than 16 million people leave civilian labor for the armed forces.