Marie is a preschool teacher. Ninety-three percent of her colleagues are female. This stark imbalance in gender ratio is an example of _____.?
A. sexual orientation
B. gender expression
C. individual discrimination
D. occupational sex segregation
E. gender pay gap
Answer: D. occupational sex segregation
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Joe, a lower-class male, steals some tires, gets caught, and goes to jail. Which of the following statements would best represent a conflict theorist's response?
a. Joe was more likely to go to jail than Jim, an upper-class executive who was caught knowing his company was selling unsafe tires. b. Joe has been met with the negative sanctions necessary to help maintain the social order and keep society running smoothly. c. Joe could not help stealing the tires because he has a genetic defect that prevents him from knowing when he is doing something wrong. d. Joe should not have stolen the tires.
"Child minders," who work in state-funded daycare centers, are found in __________
a. France b. Italy c. Japan d. Switzerland
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Structural functionalists are interested in socialization of children because their focus is on how family creates social order. 2. The feminist theory focuses on the family as being based on a patriarchal structure, in which men have the power and control. 3. The overload model, as it pertains to family troubles, focuses on how family members now need to take on roles that used to be provided for by the public sphere. 4. According to Kimmel, the most common person to commit child abuse is the father or father surrogate. 5. Women are six times more likely to be assaulted by a person with whom they are intimate than by a stranger.
In the early twentieth century, _____ were passed that allowed all public facilities in the South to be segregated, under the principle of separate but equal.
A. emancipation proclamations B. Black Codes C. Jim Crow laws D. sharecropper fairness laws