Role & Status

A. Authority figures
B. Retired in isolation
C. Honored but restrained
D. None of these

A. functionalism
B. symbolic interactionism
C. psychoanalysis
D. cognitive theory

A. achieved status
B. ascribed status
C. master status
D. status set

A. middle-range function
B. consumption function
C. latent function
D. structural function

A. schools prepare children work by teaching them to be obedient
B. teachers and parents tend to have similar attitudes to learning
C. children who write lots of letters develop a better grasp of language
D. boys’ and girls’ educational achievements have recently become similar

A. mothers who are living in poverty cannot afford to give their children the resources that other children enjoy
B. children deprived of an early secure attachment to their mother are prone to suffer physically intellectually and socially in later life
C. mothering is a socially constructed activity identified in the narratives of new mothers
D. deprivation is something children inherit usually through their mothers’ side

A. the group of structural theories of society that he was reacting against
B. the overall impression of ourselves that we try to give off to others
C. a significant figure in early childhood who teaches us the general values of society
D. an image of how people in the wider society might perceive our behavior

A. taking a stand on the issues neglected by feminism
B. studying society from the perspective of women
C. the recognition of difference and diversity in women’s lives
D. a tendency to ignore the gendered nature of knowledge

A. Achieved through effort
B. Ascribed to use by society
C. Both a and b
D. None of these

A. Role playing
B. Role sets
C. Role adjustment
D. None of these