Gender ________ Are Cognitive Systems for Interpreting Gender-Related Activities

question 28

Multiple Choice

Gender ________ are cognitive systems for interpreting gender-related activities.

• A) concepts
• B) maps
• C) representations
• D) schemas

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Definitions:

Talcott Parsons

An American sociologist known for developing a general theoretical framework for the social sciences and for his theories concerning social action, the system, and functionalism.

Robert Merton

An American sociologist known for his theories of social structure, anomie, and for developing the concept of self-fulfilling prophecy.

Middle-range Theories

Theories that operate between the minor but necessary working hypotheses that evolve in abundance during day-to-day research and the all-inclusive systematic efforts to develop a unified theory that will explain all the observed phenomena.

Marxian Theories

A set of socio-economic ideas that analyze the effects of capitalism on labor, productivity, and economic development.