Provide a review of gender stratification from a historical and contemporary perspective
What will be an ideal response?
The following are suggested areas for students to address in their essays:
Trace the gendered division of labor in the following societies:
* Preindustrial Societies—hunting and gathering, horticultural and
pastoral, and agrarian
* Industrial Societies
* Postindustrial Societies
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When this research method is used, many people can be included in a given study and results can be generalized to the population, but the information can be relatively superficial.
Research about self-concepts of the elderly show
a. elders adjust best if they realize that they are not the same person they were in earlier life. b. selfesteem inevitably declines as one’s body ages. c. identity development is based more on chronological time than particular events. d. elders are less likely to identify as old if they identify as being who they have always been.
Which of the following is an example of a status derived from families?
a. herding sheep b. being a daughter c. giving birth d. obeying parental authority
A person identifies as a woman even though she was assigned male at birth. Which of the following terms would best describe this individual?
A. cisgender B. transgender C. intersex D. androgynous