In Determining Women's Class Position, Which Theorist Defended the Conventional

question 7

Multiple Choice

In determining women's class position, which theorist defended the conventional approach that all members of a family occupy the same class location based on the person with the fullest commitment to the labour market, usually the male?

• A) Erik Olin Wright
• B) John Goldthorpe
• C) Karl Marx
• D) Pierre Bourdieu

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

An educational method where behavior intensity is adjusted via rewards or penalties.

Generalization

The psychological process in which a response, learned from a specific stimulus, is elicited by similar stimuli, demonstrating the adaptive nature of learning.

Conditioned To Salivate

This term refers to a learned response where an individual or animal begins to salivate in anticipation of food, famously illustrated by Pavlov's experiments with dogs.

Classical Conditioning

A habituation process where two stimuli are repetitively paired; the reaction, initially triggered by the second stimulus, is at length triggered by the first stimulus alone.