Explain how different cultures around the world view sexual behavior
What will be an ideal response?
Many people believe that there is a "natural" or "instinctive" expression of sexuality that people are aware of largely or completely without learning. Reflecting this belief, some people refer to variant sexual acts as "violations of nature." For many people in the United States, "natural" sex is sex between a man and a woman who are married. Sex—sex for pleasure and sex for procreation—is a principal concern of the Polynesian people on tiny Mangaia. They demonstrate that concern in the startling numbers of children born to unmarried parents, and in the statistics on frequency of orgasm and numbers of sexual partners. In Tahiti, young people are encouraged to masturbate. In the Truk Islands of the Pacific, sexual gratification is associated with pain and frustration, and sexual foreplay involves lovers inflicting pain on each other. Among most human groups, the female breasts are considered erotic, but this is not universal. Among the Mangaians, the breasts are not involved in foreplay and sexual arousal. Kissing is also a part of sexual expression in most human societies, but there are people among whom sexual intercourse occurs completely without kissing. The Siriono of Bolivia even find kissing to be a disgusting act.
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The examples of Genie and Isabelle show that
A) working class children learn different values than middle class children B) they learned their female sex roles through the media C) humans have little or no instinctive knowledge of language, facial expression, and other behaviors we take for granted D) they were born brain damaged
Qualitative research techniques are designed to obtain the subjective understanding, interpretation, and meaning of behavior
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Which of the following statements best reflects Sernau's lesson when discussing India?
A) The global economic engine represented by parts of India needs to be harnessed with a commitment to sustainable quality of life represented by Kerala. B) The poor parts of India need to build infrastructure to attract business and oppose unionization to keep wages low. C) Religious tolerance needs to reach the northern states of India to allow for the beef industry to help them become economically viable. D) The technological advances of India are improving the quality of life for all Indians and Western nations should be worried that war is inevitable.
Ethnicity is considered to be the composition and function of support systems
a. True b. False