Author Question: What is meant by the term crude divorce rate? What will be an ideal ... (Read 31 times)

stevenposner · **on:** Jun 18, 2018

What is meant by the term crude divorce rate?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Dr. Moffat is a fictional sociologist who specializes in the study of parenting. Dr. Moffat's most well-known book looks at how parents participate in children's education.

Dr. Moffat argues that parents are more likely to push children harder if they are male, and to encourage male children to pursue harder and eventually more high-paying fields like math and science. He argues that the pay differences that we find between men and women generally, and men and women within the same field, can be traced back to these tendencies in parenting. Dr. Moffat's work most closely falls into which of the theoretical frameworks mentioned by your text?
A. symbolic interactionist
B. conflict theory
C. family systems theory
D. ecological theory