Exam 11: Sex,gender,and Sexuality

Explain the conflict perspective on gender stratification.

At puberty,an increased production of hormones results in the development of______________,the physical traits (other than reproductive organs)that identify an individual's sex.

Which of the following statements does NOT apply to most hunting and gathering societies?

The text points out that gender-appropriate behavior is:

______________ is how a person perceives and feels about his or her body;it also includes an awareness of social conditions in society that contribute to this self-knowledge.

As industrialization progressed and food became more plentiful in the late nineteenth century,middle-class women started to become preoccupied with______________.

Sexism is interwoven with______________-a hierarchical system of social organization in which cultural,political,and economic structures are controlled by men.

______________ is the subordination of one sex,usually female,based on the assumed superiority of the other sex.

A gendered experience,______________is the process of deliberately cultivating an increase in the mass and strength of the skeletal muscles by means of lifting and pushing weights.

Body consciousness is how a person perceives and feels about his or her body;it also includes an awareness of social conditions in society that contribute to this self-knowledge.

The biological and anatomical differences between females and males refer to:

______________ refers to the concentration of women and men in different occupations,jobs,and places of work.

Across cultures,girls are preferred to boys,especially when the number of children that parents can have is limited by law or economic conditions.

Summarize the social significance of gender.Address eating problems and bodybuilding as part of your analysis.

Describe how we learn gender-appropriate behavior through the socialization process.

The U.S.Census Bureau points out that,in 2010,______________percent of all secretaries in the United States were women and______________percent of all engineers in the United States were men.

A study by sociologist Anthony J.Cortese found that women-regardless of what they were doing in a particular ad-were frequently shown in advertising as being:

Outline the process of gender socialization and identify specific ways in which the media contribute to the process.

The social significance of gender stereotypes is illustrated by eating problems.With bulimia,a person has lost body weight due to a compulsive fear of becoming fat.

Discuss the gendered division of paid work and explain its relationship to the issue of pay equity or comparable worth.