Term 3 Exam 2.0 Flashcards
(8 cards)
What are the technological developments most associated with the Information Revolution?
The microchip
Other options include the jet airplane, spreadsheets and email, and container ships.
With what issue is first-wave feminism most strongly associated?
Women’s suffrage
Other options include women’s education and equality in the classroom, equal opportunity for women in the workplace, and women’s reproductive rights.
What theoretical perspective considers the broader social effects of the division of labor between men and women in the household?
Conflict theory
Other options include symbolic interactionism, queer theory, and structural functionalism.
At what age do babies become aware of their own gender?
By age two.
Other options include when they begin attending school, at six weeks of age, and when they start walking.
What is an advantage of school vouchers often cited by supporters?
Vouchers give parents more choices in their children’s education.
Other options include providing more funding for public schools, better pay for teachers, and creating more specialized schools.
What is the most consistent factor involved in forming relationships and selecting mates?
The tendency to choose mates who are similar in class, race, ethnicity, and age.
Other options include personal chemistry, unique individual characteristics, and the desire for a radically different background.
What are the two complementary roles identified by functionalist Talcott Parsons within the family?
Instrumental and expressive
Other options include conflicting and conciliatory, interactionist and non-interactionist, and biological and social.
What is the unpaid labor inside the home expected of women after working at paid labor called?
The second shift
Other options include expressive tasks, the work of families, and gender socialization.
