Test 1: quizzes 1-3 SOCY230

The practice of reading physical and social cues to determine whether someone is a woman or a man is known as

Gender attribution

The text refers to learning the process of “seeing gender”, which in this case means

Learning to see the invisible ways in which gender affects our lives

The idea that “ if people defined situations as real, they are real in their consequences” is known as the___ principle

Thomas

Analyzing the many ways in which gender is socially constructed in different societies around the world is an example what

Cross-cultural approach

The theory that analyzes have the interaction of race, gender, social class, sexuality, and other identities affects our lives is referred to as

Intersectionality

Which of the following are the two key sources of evidence that are commonly unused to support the social constructionist perspective

Historical and cross-cultural comparisons

The social meaning that is assigned to biological differences between males and females is known as

Gender

The biological differences between people we call males and females are known as

Sex

The statement “ our experiences with gender vary based on historical time period and place yet there are limitations to that experience based on the biological real reality of male and female bodies” would align best with which theoretical perspective?

Biosocial

The belief that there are two physically and genetically discreet categories of people-males and females- is defined as

Sexual dimorphism

Which of the following areas of evidence supports a strong, social constructionist approach?

Sex is categorized differently in various cultures

A doctor’s determination that a baby is a boy or a girl based on their genitalia is a process referred to as?

Gender assignment

The text discusses a study which found that orthodox. Jewish girls have developed stronger bone mass than boys because the girls are more physically active and not expected to spend as much time studying religious texts. This example demonstrates that?

Biological differences can be influenced by social reality

The common practice of surgically altering the genitalia of babies, born with ambiguous is genitalia to more closely resemble, male or female sex character characteristics suggests the prevalence of which of the following?

Sexual dimorphism

____ is the term used to describe people who have a wide variety of physical traits that lead to ambiguous sex categorization?

Intersex

Some intersex individuals develop hormones that give them secondary sex characteristics that are associated with a man or a woman, despite having ambiguous genitalia and sex organs. This fact demonstrates that ____?

Human variation does not fit neatly into sex categories

Advocate of which the theoretical perspective would make the following argument, “it is culture that dictates how we see sex”?

Social construction

Which of the following is an example of a social constructionist argument?

Social ideas about sex categories prevent society from seeing actual biological reality

Drawing upon the Thomas principle, the high rates of police violence against Black people supports the claim that ___?

Racist stereotypes are based on biological reality

The ancient Greek’s belief that the vagina and the penis were different variations of the same organ demonstrates the____model

one-sex

A set of statements and propositions that seek to explain or predict a particular aspect of social life is called a

Theory

Which of the following terms refers to the tendency of individuals to focus on information that validate their pre-existing beliefs

Confirmation bias

Which of the following describes the limitations of the perspective with which male sociologist study gender in the early years of the discipline?

They assumed the concepts they studied described everyone’s experiences

Which of the following terms is defined as the tendency to explain social behavior according to a personal issues while ignoring the impact of social structure and context on the individual?

Fundamental attribution error

Research that analyzes how a lack of gender, neutral bathrooms and schools impacts the educational experiences of transgender students exemplifies which sociological approach?

Institutional

Sex rule theory asserts that sex roles are built upon and reinforced by biological differences. This is an ____ approach to gender.

Individual

The theory of “doing gender”, which says that gender is a performance and we are constantly on stage is an ___ approach to gender

interactionist

Frank make sure to make sexual remarks about women when he is in the Mail locker room after practice because he wants to be clearly understood as a straight man Frank is participating in what social process?

Accountability

Which of the following is an example of an organization, opposing divisions along gender lines?

Using posters to show men in an aerobics class and women lifting weights

The exploration of how our dominant ideas about what it means to be a man influenced the behaviors of actual men in society is known as?

Hegemonic masculinity

The gendered-organizations approach assumes?

Organizations create gendered individuals

Assuming that a person wearing high heels is a woman is an example of?

Sex categorization

Structural functional sociologist Talcott Parsons argued that men tend to be____, or task, oriented, and women are____, or interaction oriented.

Instrumental; expressive

A set of expectations that are attached to a particular status or position in society is known as a?

Social role

Which wave of feminism is characterized by the growing strength of women of color many of whom questions the essentialist and universal assumptions often made about women?

Third

The movement that fought for giving women the right to vote is known as the ____ movement

Suffrage

In contrast, sociology psychology focuses on how

Institutions affect individuals

Sex difference research is concerned with how gender operates on a ____ level

Individual

Bradley sex different research has found evidence on which of the following?

Small differences in aptitude between sexes

Which of the following is a criticism of sex different research?

Sex difference research, reinforces gender inequality

Queer theory chases, it’s beginnings to intersections between the gay/lesbian rights movement, feminism, and ___

Postmodernism/postructuralism

Which of the following is a feature of queer theory as a general orientation?

It is distrustful of categories

Ward’s (2008) article on craigslist ads from men seeking sex with other women demonstrates which of the following?

The category of heterosexual is unstable

Which of the following is a concern of gender scholars who are interested in challenging, perspectives of gender arising from the global north?

In balances exist between the global north and south

An impact of colonialism on indigenous peoples was the loss of communal land to colonial authorities, one effect was that colonized peoples ____

Were subject to the gendered land cultivation of the colonists

Why is women’s work often unaccounted for an economic theories of development?

It is often part of the informal economy

The “Women in Development” perspective sought to

Integrate gender into the pre-existing development project

____ research is invested in identification rather than explanation

Descriptive

During the gay and lesbian rights movement, lesbian feminists argued that

Gay men benefit from systems of gender inequality