SOC CH.8

What term refers to the invisible barriers women face when they enter more prestigious corporate worlds?

Which of the following would NOT be considered a "positive" trait or characteristic for a man within today's hegemonic masculinity?

The basic idea behind feminism is that women and men should be:

In the classroom, compared to girls, boys are:

T or F? In regard to female dominated jobs, sociologists have found that only men suffer an economic penalty when they work in jobs that employ mostly women.

An essentialist would argue all of the following for why women outnumber men in occupations that involve caring EXCEPT:

Which statement is NOT true about girls as compared to boys?

Alfred Kinsey's 1948 study, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, is important because:

In agrarian societies, people no longer have to move continually in search of food and they can acquire a surplus. Men gain control over the disposition of the surplus and the kinship system, and this control serves men's interests.

Opponents of gay and lesbian couplings claim that homosexuality is "unnatural" because they believe sex should only be about:

In Brazil, gender is determined by:

Prison rape is usually about power, and a man who commits a homosexual act within prison:

In comparison to boys, girls are more likely to:

Under the sex/gender system, men universally perform the kinds of tasks that:

Which theoretical perspective assumed that every society had certain structures that existed to fulfill some set of necessary functions?

Why do parents and surgeons push to assign a sex to a genitally ambiguous child?

Your text mentions several reasons why American teenagers are rapidly spreading STDs. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons?

Although female circumcision is a custom in some societies, a structural functionalist might argue that this practice exists because it:

What term best describes a behavior or attitude where a person's sex is the basis for prejudicial discrimination and where sex may matter more than a person's performance or merit?

Surgeons today recommend prompt surgery to make intersex children conform to an ideal of normal genitalia. About 90 percent of these surgeries:

T of F? At birth, male and female infants are distinguished by secondary sex characteristics: the genitalia used in the reproductive process

In the one-sex model, it was believed that both a man's and a woman's orgasm were required for conception. When the two-sex model gained momentum, women and men were viewed as radically different creatures, and the female orgasm became viewed as:

Similar to hegemonic masculinity, social problems that exist within a dominant group in a society tend to be:

While the notion of sex refers to biological characteristics, the concept of gender refers to:

The study of gender is basically the study of how two spheres shape each other. What are the two spheres?

T or F? In regard to male dominated jobs, sociologists have found that men benefit from an informal structure and practices that are often referred to as the "glass escalator" or "glass elevator"

What you do in the social world should be a direct result of who you are in the natural world. This statement refers to:

If we apply our sociological imaginations to sex, gender, and sexuality, we might argue that:

One of the key economic factors that continue to benefit men in work in a post-industrial is their biological advantages in terms of physical size and strength