Chapter 11

Question 1

Gender

Answer 1

Personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being female or male

Question 2

Gender stratification

Answer 2

The unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women

Question 3

Matriarchy

Answer 3

A form of social organization in which females dominate males

Question 4

Patriarchy

Answer 4

A form of social organization in which males dominate females

Question 5

Sexism

Answer 5

The belief that one sex is innately superior to the other

Question 6

Institutional sexism

Answer 6

Found throughout the economy

Question 7

The term ____\ refers to the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women

Answer 7

Gender stratification

Question 8

Margaret Meads and George Murdocks international studies cited in the text show that some societies around the world define _____ very differently

Answer 8

Masculinity and femininity

Question 9

Which of the following is an example of institutional sexism

Answer 9

Working women earn less than working men

Question 10

According to George Murdocks research in a preindustrial community, which of the following jobs would most often fall to a woman

Answer 10

Cooking

Question 11

What did anthropologist Margaret mead find in her study of three different societies in New Guinea

Answer 11

The three societies defined feminist and masculinity in different ways

Question 12

Gender roles

Answer 12

Attitudes and activities that a society links to each sex

Question 13

According to Carol Gillian, boys have a sense of rightness that involves

Answer 13

Playing by the rules

Question 14

By about _____ years of age, most children being to think of themselves in terms of gender, in most cases as being girls or boys

Answer 14

Three

Question 15

Which of the following products most often targets women in advertising

Answer 15

Diet products

Question 16

The term “gender roles” refers to

Answer 16

Attitudes and activities that a society links to each sex

Question 17

If strangers are told that a baby is a boy how are they likely to treat the child

Answer 17

Aggressively with physical activity such as spinning and bouncing

Question 18

Minority

Answer 18

Any category do people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates

Question 19

Sexual harassment

Answer 19

Comments, gestures, or physical contacts of a sexual nature that are deliberate, repeated, and unwelcome

Question 20

One factor that has led to an increase in the share of women in the US workforce over the last century is

Answer 20

A decline in the size do the typical familh

Question 21

The United Kingdom and Australia are among the countries that have adopted _______ policies to remove the historical double standard at work

Answer 21

Comparable worth

Question 22

What does the metaphor “glass ceiling” mean in relation to women’s jobs

Answer 22

It represents hard to see but real gender based obstacles to promotion

Question 23

As time goes on the increasing _____ helps increase the number of women in high paying professions

Answer 23

Educational achievements of women

Question 24

Which of the following f scenarios is an example of quid pro quo sexual harassment

Answer 24

A boss threatens to fire his assistant if she stops having sex with him

Question 25

Intersection theory

Answer 25

Analysis of the interplay of race class and gender which often results in multiple dimensions of disadvantage

Question 26

Talcott Parsons s characterized masculine behavior as ____ and feminine behavior as ____

Answer 26

Instrumental; expressive

Question 27

A community divides responsibilities between men and women as a means to organize social life and to unite families. Which gender theory does this pattern illustrate

Answer 27

Structural functional theory

Question 28

Research guided by symbolic interaction theory has found that in interactions between women and men and men tend to initiate the interaction and women who typically have less power are expected to be

Answer 28

Deferential to men

Question 29

According to Fredrick Engels and the development of capitalism has what effect on the relations between women and men

Answer 29

Capitalism gives men increasing power over women

Question 30

Which of the following statements is a correct expression of intersection theory

Answer 30

Race, class, and gender combine in various ways resulting in multiple dimensions of disadvantage

Question 31

Feminists propose an ____ by which all individuals can develop all human traits

Answer 31

Reintegration of humanity

Question 32

Support for feminism is strongest among which categories of the US population

Answer 32

Women, those with more education, those who identify with the democratic party

Question 33

One point on which most feminists agree is the importance of

Answer 33

Eliminating gender stratification

Question 34

Which category or categories of feminists believe that it is womankind’s responsibility to work together to ensure the success of women through collective effort

Answer 34

Radical and socialist feminists

Question 35

Looking back over the last century it is correct to conclude that change with regard to gender has been

Answer 35

Great and remarkable

Question 36

Which concept refers to society placing men and women at different social levels

Answer 36

Gender stratification

Question 37

In general women come closest to men I. Terms of social standing in which of the following categories of nations

Answer 37

High income nations

Question 38

Which of the following statements about gender is correct

Answer 38

Gender affects self image and social life in many important ways

Question 39

In 1900 just 20 percent of women were in the paid labor force in the us. Today the share is about what percent

Answer 39

58

Question 40

Gender shapes the college courses that students choose. Which of the following college courses is most likely to have a larger share of men than women

Answer 40

Computer science

Question 41

Which do the following statements about gender in advertising is correct

Answer 41

Ads present women in ways that suggest they have less power than men and seek men’s attention

Question 42

Which do the following statements about us women with young children is correct

Answer 42

The share of women in the paid workforce has been increasing and women with older children are especially likely to be working for income

Question 43

Which do the following women is at the greatest risk of violence

Answer 43

Violet who lives with her husband and three young children. Both she and her husband work to support their family but they are challenged by the fact that together they earn less than 30,000 a year

Question 44

Which of the following situations illustrates what the text describes as a woman’s second shift

Answer 44

Anna comes home from work at an Amazon distribution center and does cooking and housework until it’s time for bed

Question 45

Fridrich Engels developed a theory of gender stratification that is associated with which sociological approach

Answer 45

Social conflict theory

Question 46

In which of the following jobs do we find about 99 percent of the workers are women

Answer 46

Preschool teacher

Question 47

Sociologists characterize most of the places we go and activities we engage in as ____ meaning that they are defined as masculine or feminine

Answer 47

Gendered

Question 48

Only one version of feminism ____ accepts the basic order of society as it is

Answer 48

Liberal

Question 49

A community do people of all genders maintains distinct sexual identities but share housework, child care responsibilities and all other work in the community equally. These social arrangements illustrate which of the following

Answer 49

Socialist feminism

Question 50

In the us for every dollar earned by men women earn how much

Answer 50

83 cents

Question 51

What is the form of social organization in which females dominate males?

Answer 51

Matriarchy

Question 52

The factor which accounts for the greatest share of the difference in the earnings of working women and men in the United States is ________

Answer 52

the type of work men and women do.

Question 53

Which type of feminism accepts the basic organization of U.S. society, but seeks to give women the same rights and opportunities as men?

Answer 53

Liberal feminism

Question 54

In about what percentage of rapes and attempted rapes on college campuses does the woman know her attacker?

Answer 54

90 percent

Question 55

In the United States in 2017, women in the labor force working full time earned __________ to every dollar men earned.

Answer 55

about 80 cents

Question 56

Structural-functional analysis points out that industrialization encourages ________

Answer 56

growing gender equality

Question 57

In the United States, women gained the right to vote in 1820.

Answer 57

False

Question 58

In the United States today, women working for income is the rule rather than the exception.

Answer 58

True

Question 59

Since very few societies have existed without patriarchy, we must conclude that patriarchy is inevitable.

Answer 59

False

Question 60

Patriarchy provides advantages, but not disadvantages, to males.

Answer 60

False

Question 61

In the United States, administrative support jobs and service jobs have a high concentration of women.

Answer 61

True

Question 62

Today in the United States, only about 10 percent of women with young children work for income.

Answer 62

False