QUIZ: 8&9

Comte de Buffon's classification schemes assumed that anyone who differed from the following group was abnormal.

European

Which act formalized the exclusive definition of whiteness by imposing immigration restrictions based on a national origins quota system that limited the yearly number of immigrants from each country?

Immigration Act of 1924

John Gray's book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus was a number-one best seller for more than a decade. Which of the following is one of the reasons his book has been so popular?

People had never thought about the differences between men and women before reading the book.

Use Paula England's research to predict what incoming college students will find on campus.

a culture of hooking up

Samuel is a white Christian minister in 1830. Like most of his contemporaries, he believes in the biblical "curse of Ham." This means that when Samuel sees an African American, he sees:

a descendent of Ham, the original black man who was set apart as cursed.

Until 1973, the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association listed homosexuality as:

a mental disorder.

A sociologist studies the family dynamics of Marie, a transgender woman who was raised as a boy named Max. The sociologist notices Marie's father "deadnaming" her. What is he doing?

calling her "Max" even though she wants to be called "Marie"

Gender structures social relationships between people unequally. This is a statement that would be supported by which group?

feminists

Japanese internment camps resulted in:

greater wealth for white Americans.

It is 2013, and Isaac is an incoming college student. Sociological research surrounding the data presented in this chart would predict what outcome for Isaac? He will likely:

major in finance or engineering and ultimately out earn his female classmates.

Although women now outnumber men in terms of college enrollment, men still dominate which fields?

math and physics

Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith's proposal that skin color should be viewed as a product of climate and therefore not correlated to inner virtues (e.g., intelligence, character, personality) suggests that he felt:

people were all the same beneath their skin.

Janet Lever found that boys and girls played differently on the playground. In comparison to boys, girls tended to:

play more cooperative and people-based games.

In 1942, 120,000 Japanese Americans were sent by federal order to internment camps. Afterward, all Asian Americans (regardless of their country of origin and/or U.S. citizenship status) went from being a relatively unnoticed group to being singled out for discrimination. This is known as:

racialization

Which of the following situations provides an example of how the social categories of gender influence the biology of sex?

the decision to perform sex reassignment surgery on a male infant born with a micropenis (e.g., a phallus measuring less than 2 centimeters in length) and raise the baby as a female

The German Nazis identified Jews as a "race," and race was believed to be biological. Nonetheless, the Jews were forced to wear a yellow Star of David because:

there was no reliable physical indicator of this supposed "race."

According to Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People, white people:

typically just see themselves as "individuals."

During European colonialism, ethnocentrism classified whites as normal, and nonwhites as abnormal and inferior, to help justify:

unequal treatment and conquest.

Which of the following is one main reason why a Navajo person would identify as nadle? The person:

was born with ambiguous genitalia.

Euripedes is a fictional student of Aristotle. Following his teacher's line of thought, Euripedes proudly declares his commitment to civic association, that the true test of a person's worth is in what the individual does, not in personal characteristics. Euripedes fails to examine the fact that the principle of civic association excludes:

women