Compare and contrast love marriages and arranged marriages. How are the similar? How are they different? Did this reading change your perspective on arranged marriage? If so, how?
What will be an ideal response?
May include the following:
a. similar criteria (education, economic status, background), some differing (age, personal attraction, etc.)
b. love marriages are based on personal attributes, arranged marriages often on family attributes
c. similar levels of satisfaction
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In the post-bellum North, blacks newly arriving in Northern cities often ended up as strikebreakers because
a. Poverty gave them little choice b. Blacks were paid more money than the striking whites had been paid c. Blacks were opposed to unions based on religious beliefs d. Hispanics and Native Americans were not willing to do this kind of work
Laud was interested in what type of men engaged in anonymous homosexual sex in public places. He spent time in a public bathroom where men engaged in sex with other men, and he secretly observed the types of men who visited the bathroom. What kind of research was he conducting?
A. secondary data analysis B. content analysis C. intensive interviewing D. field research
The activities that individuals engage in to affirm that they understand what is expected of them as male or female it is called:
a. accessorizing gender. b. doing gender. c. labeling. d. domesticization of gender.
Which of the following is NOT a member of your primary group?
a. your sibling b. your boss c. your mother d. your father