Module 5 Quiz

Consider this description of a level of analysis: This level examines how groups, communities and organizations structure social life. This level might look at how churches shape gender expectations for women, how schools teach students to become girls and boys, or how workplace policies make gender transition and recognition either easier or harder for trans and gender nonconforming workers. Which level does this definition describe?

Meso

According to social theorists, a powerful way to understand the influencing effects of power and difference on social phenomena, including how it affects oneself and one's multiple identities, is to situate one's experiences within multiple levels of analysis. What are the different levels of analysis?

Micro (individual), Meso (group), Macro (structural), Global correct

Gender expression is a term used to talk about how we present our gender. Which of the following is not a social institution that shapes our gender expression?

Psychologists

True or False? Power refers to processes of privileging, normalizing, and valuing certain identities over others, and access to and through various social institutions.

True

True or False? Feminism is considered a single school of thought with key theories believed to apply equally to all groups.

False

True or False? Misogyny refers to a system in which power, social control, material wealth, and social status accumulate to men over women, granting men privileges, entitlements, expectations, and greater rewards and benefits.

False

Which term refers to how one identifies one's own gender, including gender expression and identifying terms like pronouns?

Gender identity

Consider this description of a level of analysis: This level is focused on transnational production, trade, and migration, global capitalism, and transnational trade and law bodies (such as the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, the World Trade Organization). This level includes larger transnational forces that bear upon our personal lives but that we often ignore or fail to see. Which level does this definition describe?

Global

Consider this description of a level of analysis: This level examines government policies, programs, and institutions, as well as ideologies and categories of identity. This level includes national power structures as well as cultural ideas about different groups of people according to race, class, gender, and sexuality spread through various national institutions, such as media, education and policy. Which level does this definition describe?

Macro

Consider this statement: Gender is _________ produced. Which word is the least appropriate in this sentence?

economically