Sociology Answers

 ways in which the church perpetuate culturally constructed gender inequalities and explain how these could be addressed.

You are walking down the street in your city or hometown. In looking around you, you can’t help noticing that half or more of the people you see are overweight. How do you explain your observation? If you were C. Wright Mills, how do you think you would explain it?

The church is a major social institution in Africa. Analyse four (4) ways in which the church perpetuate culturally constructed gender inequalities and explain how these could be addressed.

 Discuss four (4) ways in which social media could be used to perpetuate gender stereotypes in an African society. In what ways can these be addressed?

The social construction of race:

A. Encourage an understanding of race as biologically.

B. Entails an understanding of race as being socially constructed.

C. Emphasis historical, cultural and economic factors as well as the physical characteristics of people..

D. Encompasses the idea that people are assigned to different racial categories because of opinion and social experience.

Choose the correct combination below.

1.A,C&D.

2.A,B,&C.

3.A&B.

4.A&D

Citizenship education in the new SA after Apartheid is best described as:

A. Promoting participatory democracy.

B. Confined to matric student.

C. Promoting the necessary skills for active citizenship.

D. A waste of time.

Choose the correct combination below.

1.B& D.

2.B,C&D.

3.A& C.

4.A,B& D

A cosmopolitan view of citizenship and citizenship education seek to prepare SA learners to:

A. Act locally but think globally.

B. Become more like America.

C. Ignore global issues.

D. Focus on local problem.

Choose the correct combination below:

1. C.

2. A,C& D.

3. B,C & D.

4. A

Which of the following have contributed towards the development of new social pattern in society.

a. The development of technology.

b.traditinal values.

c. The growth of mass media.

d. Making predictions.

Choose the correct combination below.

1.A& B.

2.C & D.

3. A,B& C.

4.A & C

We can argue that the school:

A. Is a micro unit.

B.is where secondary socialization take place.

C.has a formal curriculum.

D . plays the same role as the family.

Choose the correct combination below.

1.A .

2. D.

3. A &B.

4. B & C

1.     a. Write about the contributions of Jane Addams, Émile Durkheim Harriet Martineau and

Karl Marx in Sociology in the field of Sociology.

b. Explain how their contributions helped shape the field of Sociology.