Practice Questions Flashcards
The principle that states: “If people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences” is known as the:
Thomas principle or theorem
Reading cues, such as physical cues, in order to decide someone’s gender is known as?
Gender Attribution
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
Which of the following are the two key sources of evidence that are commonly used to support the social constructionist perspective?
Historical and cross cultural comparisons
A set of statements and propositions that seek to explain or predict a particular aspect of social life is called a:
Theory
Our tendency to look for information that confirms our pre-existing beliefs while ignoring information that contracts those beliefs is known as:
Confirmation Bias
The National Organization for Women (NOW) focused on passing gender discrimination legislation during the ______ wave of feminism.
2nd
A set of expectations that are attached to a particular status or position in society is known as:
Social Role
A set of expectations that are attached to a particular sex category are known as:
Sex Role
In contrast to sociology, psychology focuses on how ______.
individual processes affect behavior
Broadly, sex difference research has found evidence of which of the following?
small difference in aptitude between sexes
Queer theory traces its beginnings to the intersections between the gay/lesbian rights movement, feminism and ______.
postmodernism/poststructuralism
Which of the following was a central focus of the gay rights movement?
Removing the categorization of homosexuality as a mental illness from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
Which of the following is a concern of gender scholars who are interested in challenging perspectives of gender arising from the global North?
Power imbalances exist between the global North and the global South.
The process through which individuals learn the gender norms of their society and come to develop an internal gender identity is known as ______.
Gender Socialization
When an individual develops an internalized understanding of how they personally relate to expectations around femininity or masculinity, they are developing
Gender Identity
How do intersex children inform our understanding of gender socialization?
Intersex children challenge prevailing understandings of sex categorization.
Which of the following terms refers to the people, groups, and institutions that impact the socialization of individuals?
Agents
Our dominant ideas about what it means to be a man and the influence of these ideas over the behaviors of men is known as which of the following?
hegemonic masculinity
Which wave of feminism is characterized by the growing strength of women of color, many of whom questioned the essentialist and universal assumptions often made about women
Third
Kinseys theory of sexuality is best characterized by?
A continumm
Define continumm: more fluid
Research on the variations in math and science of test scores on boys and girls is and example of which kind of research?
Sex difference research
The movement that fought for giving women the right to vote is known as the ____?
Suffrage Movement
Affiliated with first wave feminism
