inquizitive ch.9
What are the major agents of socialization that enforce gender roles?
Correct Answer(s) families schools peers the media Incorrect Answer(s) religion
Identify the college policies and aspects of campus life that contribute to a rape culture on campuses
Correct Answer(s) pushing parties from on-campus to off-campus locations hookup culture feeling pressure to participate in the party scene on campus creating policies that unintentionally engage in "victim blaming" Incorrect Answer(s) educating men in rape prevention
Identify the observed phenomena that call into question the biological binary male/female sex distinction.
Correct Answer(s) women athletes with unusually high levels of testosterone children born with ambiguous genitalia Incorrect Answer(s) men who are sexually attracted to other men women who enjoy, and are good at, hunting
Identify the examples of male privilege.
Male Privilege Men are allowed to take up more physical space wherever they go. Men are not expected to smile at all times. Men are less likely to be interrupted while speaking. Not Male Privilege Men have a higher drive for status. Men have lower anxiety.
By what grade in school are gender norms firmly established?
fifth
t or f:The men's liberation movement is made up of two factions: the men's rights movement and the pro-feminist men's movement.
true
Identify whether or not the following are examples of gendered microaggressions.
Gendered Microaggression(s) A man refuses to wash the dishes because he claims that it is "woman's work." A female physician wearing a stethoscope is mistaken for a nurse. A customer service agent calls a trans woman "sir" on the phone. Not Gendered Microaggression(s) A woman is assumed to be the principal of a school because she wears a pantsuit to work.
Identify each of the following as either a primary or secondary sex characteristic.
Primary Sex Characteristic(s) chromosomes estrogen prostate Secondary Sex Characteristic(s) facial hair breasts
Fill in the blanks to complete the statement about gender and bullying.
Sarah Miller (2016) found that bullying in the form of homophobic labeling and the spreading of sexual rumors helped reinforce traditional gender and sexuality norms in young women.
Identify the true and false statements about sexuality.
True The percentage of people who identify with each category of sexual orientation is controversial. Some suggest that sexuality is best understood as a fluid continuum. Slightly more women than men identify as bisexual. False Statement(s) About 8 percent of adults self-identify as gay or lesbian.
Identify the true and false statements about male and female earnings according to this graph.
True Statement(s) Between 1990 and 2010, the earnings of women increased more than the earnings of men. Between 1980 and 1990, the female-to-male earnings ratio increased about 10 percent. False Statement(s) Between 1973 and 2017, men's earnings have increased by 20 percent. Recessions have always led to decreases in the female-to-male earnings ratio.
Identify the true and false statements about the LGBTQ acronym.
True Statement(s) Many activists and organizations believe it should be even more inclusive, proposing a longer version—LGBTQIA. Sometimes "+" is added to the end to represent allies. False Statement(s) Sometimes "A" is added at the end, which stands for "Allies."
Your textbook describes the Vanatinai society in New Guinea as an example of what?
gender equality
In what year did the first states in the United States begin legalizing same-sex marriages?
2004
Place each groundbreaking television series about homosexual or transgender characters in order of air date, from earliest to latest.
Ellen Will & Grace Orange Is the New Black Queer Eye (Reboot)
Identify the true and false statements about gender and labor force participation.
True Statement(s) A higher percentage of men than women participate in the labor force. Since 1975, the percent of mothers in the labor force has been on the rise. Marriage seems to have opposite effects on women's and men's participation rates. False Statement(s) Occupational sex segregation, or the domination of certain professions by a single gender, has dramatically fallen in recent years.
Identify the true and false statements about feminism.
True Statement(s) Feminism is more than a social movement. Feminism can be divided into three waves. False Statement(s) The goals of feminism have always been the same. The second wave of feminism focused on diversity.
Match each statement about feminism to the wave it is associated.
first wave: Correct label:It was associated with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Correct label:Its main cause was the campaign to win the vote for women, or the suffrage movement. Correct label:Its key event was a convention held in Seneca Falls, New York. second wave: Its main causes were equal access to education and employment. :Its key event was the establishment of the National Organization for Women. It was associated with Betty Friedan. third wavePress Space to open Correct label:It introduced a focus on intersectionality. Correct label:Its main cause was globalization.
About how many babies out of 1,000 are born intersex?
17
Place each social theorist's work in the order in which it was published, from first to last.
Harold Garfinkel studied a trans woman named "Agnes." Zillah Eisenstein suggested the potential losses for men under a system without gender segregation. Catharine MacKinnon argued that gender and power are inextricably intertwined in our society.
Sociologist Arlie Rothchild has studied how two-parent households handle the division of labor for the many tasks of domestic life. In the context of her studies of gender norms and household labor, what does "second shift" refer to?
It refers to the after-work homemaking chores of a wage-earning wife.
Match each term to the correct definition.
belief in the superiority of cisgender persons and identities cisgenderism Correct label: cisgenderism belief in the superiority of heterosexuality and heterosexuals heterosexism Correct label: heterosexism fear of or discrimination toward gay, lesbian, and bisexual people homophobia Correct label: homophobia fear of or discrimination toward transgender or other gender-nonconforming people transphobia Correct label: transphobia
Which term is used to describe a person whose chromosomes or sex characteristics are neither exclusively male nor exclusively female?
intersex
Women increasingly outnumber men in college and made up the majority of college graduates by the mid-____. By 2017, women earned ___percent of bachelor's degrees. For LGBTQ individuals, education may be a tougher road than for non-LGBTQ individuals. The 2015 National School Climate Survey found that almost ___percent of LGBTQ students reported being verbally harassed, while -___percent reported being physically harassed.
1990s, 57, 85, 35
Match each theoretical perspective to the corresponding approach to gender inequality.
Because of the traditional division of labor in families, males have had more access to resources and privileges and have sought to maintain their dominance: conflict theory Sex determines which roles men and women are best suited to perform: structural functionalism Gender is learned through the process of socialization; gender inequalities are reproduced through interactions with family, peers, schools, and the media: symbolic interactionism
Match each term to the corresponding example.
Car advertisements usually feature men who are heterosexual, economically successful, and physically fit: hegemonic masculinity A woman is paid less than her male co-worker for the same job: discrimination In 2014, Elliot Rodger wrote a 140-page manifesto linking himself to the incel movement, before killing six people and injuring fourteen more in Isla Vista, California (near the University of California, Santa Barbara), and then killing himself: toxic masculinity
Identify the following statements as applying to either boys or girls in school.
Boys They receive more attention and instructional time and are more likely to be called on in class. They are posed with more challenging questions or tasks and are given more praise for the quality of their work. Girls They tend to earn higher grades in elementary school. They are typically credited for hard work rather than intellectual ability.
In Silicon Valley, sexism is alive and well, as evidenced by a 3,300-word manifesto circulated by a male engineer in August 2017. Written in response to Google's recent efforts to increase diversity among its heavily white and heavily male workforce, the internal memo argued that the unequal representation of women in tech roles is due to supposed biological differences between men and women
Silicon Valley, 2017, google, biological
Identify the true and false statements about queer theory.
True Statement(s) For much of the twentieth century, "queer" was a pejorative term. Queer theory rejects any notion of a binary sexuality system. "Queer" encompasses a wide range of gender and sexual diversity. False Statement(s) Queer theorists accept Kinsey's categorization as the true way to classify sexuality.
Identify the true and false statements about Talcott Parsons's ideas of complementary gender roles.
True Statement(s) The instrumental role is being task oriented, a "breadwinner," and an authority figure. The expressive role is providing emotional support and nurturing. Parsons suggests gender segregation serves to uphold the traditional family and its social functions. False Statement(s) The social rewards for filling complementary gender roles are equal.
Which of the following statements about health are true for men, and which are true for women, in the United States?
True for Men This group is less likely to suffer from depression. This group is more likely to commit suicide in their early twenties. True for Women Over the past several decades, the rate of new lung cancer cases for this group has increased. This group has a longer life expectancy. Over half of the American population belongs to this group.
Match each term about gender to its definition.
a term used when gender identity and/or expression aligns with the sex assigned at birth: cisgender an individual's self-definition or sense of gender: gender identity a term used when gender identity and/or expression is different from the sex assigned at birth: transgender an individual's behavioral manifestations of gender: gender expression a term used when gender identity and/or expression differs from societal expectations about gender roles: gender nonconforming
Our society recognizes different sexual orientations based on a _______gender system. The normative and dominant category of sexuality is __________; the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior found that about 4 percent of all adults identify as __________-while 3 percent of men and 4 percent of women identify as ________. The idea that sexual orientation can have a wide spectrum, posited by _______ _____-, has not gained widespread acceptance.
binary, heterosexuality, homosexual, bisexual, Alfred Kinsey
Place each occupation in order from highest to lowest percentage of women in that occupation.
dental hygienist, librarian, waiter, physician and surgeon, lawyer, computer programmer, firefighter
Consider the following scenario. Alice came to the realization that she is attracted to other girls her age. Now that she's started her sophomore year in high school, she wants to ask out girls without being afraid of the consequences. She tests her friends' acceptance of these feelings first by mentioning a hypothetical friend at another high school who just came out as a lesbian. Alice's friends overwhelmingly believe that homosexuality is wrong and that anyone who is not heterosexual is a deviant. What concept do the opinions of Alice's friends exemplify?
heteronormativity
Sociologist Talcott Parsons identified two complementary social gender roles in the family. The _________role is the position of the family member who provides material support and is often an authority figure. The ________role is the position of the family member who provides emotional support and nurturing. These roles may be complementary, but the social rewards for filling them are far from equal. The ________view does not explain very well why gender relations are characterized by such inequality
instrumental, expressive, functionalist
Sex refers to an individual's membership in one of two categories—male or female—that are based on biological factors. Gender reflects our notions about what is appropriately __________________-. There is significant debate about gender—_________suggest that notions of gender are socially determined and ______see gender as immutable.
masculine or feminine, constructionists, essentialists
Place each statistic about gender and family in order from highest to lowest percentage.
percent of men who report never having been married percent of women who report never having been married percent of custodial parents who live below the poverty level percent of women who are widowed percent of men who are widowed