Exam 11: Families and Intimate Relationships

During adolescence, adults are more effective agents of gender socialization than peers.

Some people may be genetically of one sex but have a gender identity of the other. These people are termed______________ , in which the sex-related structure of the brain that defines gender identity is opposite from the physical sex organs of the person's body.

Gender socialization in sports generally results in______________ .

Define sex; explain the difference between primary sex characteristics and secondary sex characteristics for both males and females.

The term______________ refers to all the ideas regarding masculine and feminine attributes that are held to be valid in a society.

Which of these countries was the last to offer legal recognition of gay and lesbian marital relationships?

Each of the following is an example of a secondary sex characteristic in men except:

Explain the current understanding that sex is not always as clear-cut as generally assumed. Define the concept of intersex.

A(n) ______________is one in which factory or mechanized production has replaced agriculture as the major form of economic activity.

In a definitive study of sexuality in the mid-1990s, researchers at the University of Chicago established three criteria for identifying people as homosexual or bisexual. Which of the following is not one of the criteria they identified?

Discuss the decline in women's status in agricultural and industrial societies.

The pay gap between men and women is the smallest for ______________.

A person's earnings depend a great deal on where the person is located in the occupational structure of the labor market.

______________is the term for the division of jobs into categories with distinct working conditions, which contributes to women having separate and unequal jobs.

Hijra, xanith, and berdache are all examples of a(n) ______________.

"Women's roles as nurturers and caregivers are even more pronounced in contemporary industrialized societies. This division of family labor ensures that important societal tasks will be fulfilled. It also provides for family members." This statement is consistent with the ______________.

______________in the United States created a gap between the nonpaid work performed by women at home and the paid work that was increasingly performed by men and unmarried girls.

In contemporary societies, women's child-care responsibilities have ______________on their participation in careers and professions.

Men and women can both be victims of sexism.

In most hunting and gathering societies,_______________ .