Exam 7: Gender Roles and Power in the Family

Social equality between the sexes is known as _____

Which of the following are accurate examples of the varied gender roles of American Indian women?

The author determined that emotion work is a gender issue that looks different for men and women.

It is commonly believed that gender roles are _____ behaviors rooted in the social context of the culture in which the person lives.

Family power outcomes are commonly studied by observational research that measures family members' assertive statements and their consequences.

The unequal division of emotion work affects men's marital satisfaction more than women's.

The _____ theory links gender-role development to the more general maturation of the thinking processes.

Gender identity is a sense of being male or female and what that means in today's society.

Who was the sociologist who introduced the modern family's "instrumental" and "expressive" roles?

The ability of an individual to change the behavior of other members in the social system is their _____.

In the traditional view,society required that men be _____ and women be _____.

Social learning and cognitive development theories were synthesized to describe the effect of positive labeling of gender-specific behaviors on a child's motivation to perform these behaviors.

American Indian culture is generally more male-centered than Mexican American or African American cultures,as evidenced by the prohibition against women in tribal government.

Although many egalitarian couples believe that housework should be shared equally between husbands and wives,in the U.S.,wives still bear almost all the responsibility for the housework.

Which of the following statements regarding gender role development is NOT supported by social learning theory?

Talcott Parsons's theory was criticized because it focused on the problems of traditional family structure and ignored its positive aspects.

Although most research relating to gender focuses on housework and care of children,there is a recent concept in families that considers:

Based on a national sample of married couples,the major role relationship issue they face is concern about unfair division of _____.

What term refers to how family demands affect work performance?

Our textbook authors posit that with respect to contemporary gender roles in the U.S.: