Exam 4: Our Gendered Identities

Studying 'play' as part of the socialization process of children is a particularly important concept in which theoretical perspective?

Give an example of male dominance in the family, religion, and politics.

The text observes that, regarding gender attitudes and behaviors, this is an ambivalent time.

In Kimmel's typology of camps within the men's movement, which group emerged in the 1990s and tends not to focus on patriarchy as problematic?

Black men and women generally reject egalitarian relationships.

A survey conducted by the Public Education Network found that 31 percent of boys in grades 7-12 felt that teachers do not listen to them, compared to __________ percent for girls.

Media images often convey gender expectations. These images are called ____________.

Differences among women or among men (within-group variation) are usually greater than the differences between men and women (between-group variation).

WOverall, gender schema theorists see gender schema as __________ traditional stereotypes.

Suppose a researcher is observing the differences between men and women. This illustrates __________ variation.

The process by which society influences members to internalize attitudes and expectations is called __________.

Briefly explain how traditional gender roles have been stressful for men and women.

Many contemporary biologists have relinquished biologically deterministic models in their thinking about gender and family.

Journalist Peggy Orenstein observed students in two California middle schools and found that

WConfidence, assertiveness, and ambition can be classified as __________ character traits.

An emerging female expectation is the "satisfied single": a woman (either heterosexual or lesbian, usually employed, and perhaps a parent) who is quite happy

__________ refers to the degree to which an individual sees herself or himself as feminine or masculine, based on society's definitions of appropriate gender roles.

There are several societies on record where women dominate men.

The text points out that school-age boys have a greater incidence of all but which of the following problems?

WSome bureaucratic forms now include a check box for "____________" as well as those for "male" and "female," suggesting the beginning of societal accommodation to a more complex sex/gender system.