Explain the three factors identified that may explain why working-class women in Miller and Carlson’s sample had such a hard time getting household chores divided they ways they wanted.
What will be an ideal response?
May include the following:
a. less assertive communication methods
b. working-class men tended to argue that housework was too difficult or not their responsibility
c. working-class women may be particularly strongly affected by conventional gender norms, especially regarding male privilege.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Compared with fathers in the past, men today are more likely to do all of the following EXCEPT:
a. routine child-care activities. b. play with their children. c. live apart from their children. d. participate in childbirth.
The lowest-cost method of administering a questionnaire is the
a. self-administered questionnaire. b. open-ended interview. c. unstructured interview. d. laboratory experiment.
Which of the following is the most accurate explanation of a functionalist view of poverty and inequality?
A. Poverty and inequality are necessary in order to keep members of different social class from marrying and having children with each other. B. Poverty and inequality ensure that people in lower classes will be able to produce more children for relatively wealthier people to rely on for laborers. C. Certain positions need higher levels of rewards because of the difficulty in acquiring the skills to perform them. D. Poverty and inequality mainly serve the interests of economic and political elites who collude in a system of generating barriers to entry into the labor market.