Week 10 example #85203

26 November 2023
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The study of gender is basically the study of how two spheres shape eachother.What are the two spheres?
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Nature and nurture
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Gender structures social relationships between people unequally. This statement would be supported by which group?
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Feminists
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Hegemonic masculinity can best be described as
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The dominant, privileged, and often invisible category of men at any point in history.
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Although a binary sex system imposes order in the world and helps us make sense of a complicated mass of populations, it also...
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limits our ability to accept difference
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Which theory might argue that it is beneficial for society as a whole wen men and women stick to their normal roles?
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Parson's sex role theory
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According to Robert Merton, middle range theories are useful because they
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connect our day to day experiences to larger social forces
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When token men enter feminized jobs, they enjoy a quicker rise to leadership positions. This is referred to as:
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Glass escalator
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Similar to hegemonic masculinity, social problems that exist within a dominant group in a society tend to be:
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Invisible because it is regarded as the norm
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The basic idea behind feminism is that men and women should be:
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accorded equal opportunities and respect
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What term refers to desire, sexual preference, sexual identity, and behavior?
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Sexuality
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What argument do Reskin and Roos use to support the reason women end up in lower paid jobs?
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These jobs aren't attractive to men
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According to Judith Lorber, differences between the sexes are not easy to explain because gender isn't natural but rather:
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A social institution
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Under the sex/gender system, men universally perform the kind of tasks that:
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are accorded higher value than those done by women
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Alfred Kinsey's 1948 study "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" is important because:
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It viewed sexuality as falling on a continuum, thus challenging the psychiatric claim of homosexuality as abnormal.
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What did Parsons call the theory that states the nuclear family is the ideal arrangement in modern society because it fulfills the function of reproducing workers?
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Sex role theory
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If we apply our sociological imaginations to sex, gender, and sexuality, we might argue that:
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Although biological differences exist between men and women, what we make of those differences is socially constructed and has changed through time and place.
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What did Elizabeth Grosz say about the relationship between sex and gender?
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They're two sides of the same coin and thus inseperable.
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While the notion of sex refers to biological differences, the concept of gender refers to:
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Social characteristics
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Term referring to invisible barriers women face when they enter more prestigious corporate worlds:
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glass cieling
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Which female group was left out of the early liberal feminism stating gender intersects with race, class, nationality, and religion?
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Black feminists
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Which theoretical perspective assumed that every society had certain structures that existed to fulfill some set of necessary functions?
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Structural functionalism