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| Which of the following is the best example of a gender stereotype? | Women tend to be overly emotional, while men tend to be levelheaded. Women are typically shorter than men. Men do not live as long as women. Men hold more high-earning, leadership jobs than women. |
| Which of the following is the best example of the role peers play as an agent of socialization for school-aged children? | Peers tend to reinforce gender roles by criticizing and marginalizing those who behave outside of their assigned roles. Children can act however they wish around their peers because children are unaware of gender roles. Peers serve as a support system for children who wish to act outside of their assigned gender roles. None of these |
| To which theoretical perspective does the following statement most likely apply: Women continue to assume the responsibility in the household along with a paid occupation because it keeps the household running smoothly, i.e., at a state of balance? | Functionalism Conflict theory Feminist theory Symbolic interactionism |
| Only women are affected by gender stratification. | False True |
| According to the symbolic interactionist perspective, we “do gender”: | all of the time, in everything we do during half of our activities only when they apply to our biological sex only if we are actively following gender roles |
| Misogyny is: | the hatred of or, aversion to, or prejudice against women A certain kind if spa treatment One’s biological sex How we know our gender roles |
| Which of the following factors can affect the pay gap? | all of these having children lower education level being married |
| The idea that gender inequality comes from the division of labor fits with which Sociological theory? | Functionalism Symbolic Interactionism Conflict Theory Feminist Theory |
| Prior to the 19th Amendment being ratified, women were not considered a legal person on their own. | True False |
| In the 115th Congress of the United States, what percentage of the elected officials were women? | 21.2% 10.5% 30.4% 50% |
