Institutions are interrelated sets of normative elements—norms, values, and role expectations—that have been devised and passed on through generations so that society's perpetually unfinished business can be attended to
a. true
b. false
a
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Which of the following statements is true in the context of gender and family life?
A. Mothers are four times more likely to do home repairs and maintenance than fathers. B. Women do more housework than they used to. C. There are gender differences in parenting tasks. D. Mothers tend to do more of the enjoyable child care tasks than fathers. E. Fathers do most of the daily tasks like picking children up from school or day care and feeding, bathing, and putting them to bed than mothers.
Maggie has many social statuses, including mother, wife, daughter, high school principal, and softball player. She often feels she cannot meet all of the responsibilities in her life. For example, last week she had to miss a softball game because she needed to work late and also missed her son's school play. Maggie is experiencing which of the following?
A. homophily B. role conflict C. intersubjectivity D. role strain
Advances in electronics, miniaturization, digitalization, and software programming give people devices that can collect, access, store, transmit, analyze, and manipulate data and other information in nanoseconds. This advance relates best to
a. McDonaldization. b. urbanization. c. global interdependence. d. the information explosion.
Jokes that rely on stereotyping a group as stupid or inept are often repeated substituting different ethnic groups. This is an example of the concept of
A. cultural relativism. B. stereotype interchangeability. C. selective identity. D. universal applicability.