
accorded equal opportunities and respectĪlthough female circumcision is a custom in some societies, a structural functionalist might argue that this practice exists because it:Ĭ. The basic idea behind feminism is that women and men should be:Ĭ. John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (1992), takes the position that the different temperaments, emotions, and languages of males and females are rooted in: Many people believe sex to be an either-or situation (either male or female), but sociologists believe natural sex is: Why do parents and surgeons push to assign a sex to a genitally ambiguous child?ĭ.

reassign an ambiguous male anatomy into a female one. Surgeons today recommend prompt surgery to make intersex children conform to an ideal of normal genitalia. The David Reimer story showed that Money's claims were: John Money claimed that a genetic male could be raised successfully as a girl. The study of gender is basically the study of how two spheres shape each other. a major structure organizing our day-to-day experiences. Judith Lorber believes that gender is a social institution because it is:Ĭ. While the notion of sex refers to biological characteristics, the concept of gender refers to: analyzing whether vegetarians are less depressed than nonvegetarians by comparing the depression levels of vegetarians and nonvegetarians. All of the following are examples of this technique EXCEPT:ĭ. are relatively stable characteristics of an individual.Ī statistical technique called "individual fixed effects" compares an outcome across time as some factor changes.

Race, birth order, generational cohort, sex, and parental wealth are key sociological variables that are said to resist fixed effects because they:ī. comparing a particular outcome across time as some factor changes A statistical technique called "individual fixed effects" is sometimes used in the social sciences.
