Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

Question

1. According to Crawley, Foley, and Shehan, social constructionism suggests that the differences between women and men that we identify as significant (i.e., femininity and masculinity) are products of the social world, not nature.
2. Wendell argues that disability, unlike many other social constructs, has the advantage of being quantifiable and can be defined in biomedical terms.
3. The availability and distribution of basic resources such as water, food, clothing, and shelter have major effects on disability, since much disabling physical damage results directly from malnutrition and indirectly from diseases that attack and do more lasting harm to the malnourished and those weakened by exposure, according to Wendell.
4. Lerner asserts that many other theorists have been misguided by focusing too much on social class when writing about inequality relating to gender.
5. Lerner argues that classes were formed and maintained by gendered marriage arrangements and inheritance practices.

Answer 1

1. True
2. False
3. True
4. False
5. True