Role acquisition, or the process of assuming a role, consists of two primary parts:

Agenda-setting is the process by which the media

A) establish the course of a political argument. B) tell people what to think. C) arrange political stories in a particular order for broadcast. D) tell people what to think about.

When parents who seek to promote traditional gendered behaviors in their children reward tomboys for wearing frilly dresses or punish effeminate boys for playing with Barbies, they are assuming which theory of gender?

A) Biological theory B) Psychodynamic theory C) Social learning theory D) Symbolic interaction theory