Picking your nose in public may lead to some disapproving looks or comments like “you’re gross.”  They represent social control through the use of formal sanctions for offensive behavior. 

Social control refers to the different ways that certain behavior is encouraged and perpetuated. Which of the answers below is considered an informal type of social control?

We learn from labeling theory that no human behavior is naturally good or bad because it is always relative to societal reaction to it.

In pre-industrial societies men tended to hunt and women took care of domestic or home responsibilities.  These gender roles were partially created in response to demands such as pregnancy that left women at home nursing.  During this period of time these gender roles were effective at maintaining order in the family.  Later, changes in economy led to changes in gender roles such as women being required to work outside the home too, and kept the family balanced.  This scenario represents which theoretical framework?

________ focuses on mismatches between anatomical sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, not just division into male/female or homosexual/heterosexual. 

A college student represents an ascribed status.

What is the primary difference between a subculture and counterculture?

________ views culture as being created and maintained by the ways people interact and in how individuals interpret each other’s actions.

Gender refers to physical or physiological differences between males and females. 

Heterosexism is an ideology and a set of institutional practices that privilege “straight” people and heterosexuality over other sexual orientations.