Term 3 Exam Flashcards
(101 cards)
What are the technological developments most associated with the Information Revolution?
The microchip
Other options include the jet airplane, spreadsheets and email, and container ships.
With what issue is first-wave feminism most strongly associated?
Women’s suffrage
Other options include women’s education and equality in the classroom, equal opportunity for women in the workplace, and women’s reproductive rights.
What theoretical perspective considers the broader social effects of the division of labor between men and women in the household?
Conflict theory
Other options include symbolic interactionism, queer theory, and structural functionalism.
At what age do babies become aware of their own gender?
By age two.
Other options include when they begin attending school, at six weeks of age, and when they start walking.
What is an advantage of school vouchers often cited by supporters?
Vouchers give parents more choices in their children’s education.
Other options include providing more funding for public schools, better pay for teachers, and creating more specialized schools.
What is the most consistent factor involved in forming relationships and selecting mates?
The tendency to choose mates who are similar in class, race, ethnicity, and age.
Other options include personal chemistry, unique individual characteristics, and the desire for a radically different background.
What are the two complementary roles identified by functionalist Talcott Parsons within the family?
Instrumental and expressive
Other options include conflicting and conciliatory, interactionist and non-interactionist, and biological and social.
What is the unpaid labor inside the home expected of women after working at paid labor called?
The second shift
Other options include expressive tasks, the work of families, and gender socialization.
Patriarchy can be defined as a society
in which men dominate women.
Today, who do average Americans think of when they think of their families?
A brother and sister
Which of the following is an example of how teachers treat boys and girls differently in a classroom setting?
Boys are more likely than girls to be punished for misbehaving.
Which of the following terms is used for a person who states a voting rights, either temporarily or permanently?
Disenfranchised.
According to Max Weber, what did Protestant values contribute to?
The rise of capitalism.
What was a macro-level social change that resulted in innovations in farming such as mechanized, seeds spreaders, and new techniques of crop rotation ?
Agricultural Revolution.
What is an example of a primary sex characteristic?
Reproductive organs.
What is it called when media uses gender-inappropriate names or pronouns for transgender people?
A microaggression.
Family friends who are referred to as ‘Aunt’ or ‘Uncle’ are examples of
c. fictive kin.
Which of the following groups argues that men suffer discrimination due to feminism?
b. the men’s rights movement.
What is the meaning of propinquity?
d. It is the tendency to partner with people who live close by.
A society that separates church and state is a(n)
a. secular society.
A benefit of telecommuting is that
c. businesses see increased productivity and workers take fewer sick days.
What is one common reason why victims of domestic abuse stay in abusive relationships?
c. They do not have the resources to get away.
Which of the following is a strategy that some middle- and upper-class women have used to balance the demands of work and home?
a. hiring other women to do domestic work.
Who does the family influence as an agent of socialization?
b. everyone.
