Liberty University Insitutions and Change Questions

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Detailed Short answers

1. Institutional inertia makes social change difficult and yet we see a lot of social change in gender relations in many different social institutions. How do you explain this apparent contradiction?

2. Based on this module’s readings, do you believe it’s possible to just be an individual in today’s society? Why or why not?

3. A friend of yours argues that it is important to respect ‘traditional’ marriage? Why is her statement meaningless in historical perspective?

4. What is sex for? Over the course of American history, people have had different ideas about what sex was for. Using American Indians, the Puritans and Victorians, young people of the 1920s and the 1950s, and Americans today, trace the shifting ideas about the purpose of sex and the cultural and institutional changes that led to those shifts.