Sociologists Who Examine the Ways Gender Is Constructed and Maintained

question 59

Multiple Choice

Sociologists who examine the ways gender is constructed and maintained in our everyday lives tend to come from which school of social theory?

• A) essentialism
• B) symbolic interactionism
• C) structural functionalism
• D) conflict theory
• E) feminism

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