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According to the text's discussion of the prime-time television portrayals of the working class:
 
  a. although they represent over two-third's of employed Americans, the working class of prime-time television is mostly invisible.
  b. television's construction of the working class is presented as a vastly different reality than that of the middle class.
  c. working-class characters have few starring roles; they are usually depicted as unsavory or as friends of the main characters.
  d. all of the above

Question 2

The expression __________ refers to how we build our gender identities throughout our lives, using cultural materials in our environments.
 
  Fill in the blank with correct word



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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

social construction of gender



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