Suppose that you are reading an article in a professional journal about gender differences in some social behavior. You are reading the methods section and have not yet reached the results section. You are most likely to expect a large gender difference in which of the following situations?
a. when behavior is tallied by a trained observer
b. when participants do not need to have special skills
c. when work roles are made especially prominent
d. when other people are present
Question 2
According to the social constructionist approach to gender,
a. each person in a culture constructs a completely different version of the reality that he or she experiences.
b. social behavior can best be understood in terms of essentialism, so that all women are fairly similar in their social characteristics.
c. all cultures share many basic concepts about gender, and these concepts can best be explained in terms of the principles of evolution.
d. language is an important mechanism for categorizing our social experiences and creating our individual realities.
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