Exam 3: Empowerment and Human Diversity

The social construction of gender looks at the structure of the gendered social order as a whole and at the processes that construct and maintain it.

Cinco de Mayo is celebrated as the day:

In the context of themes that provide successful conditions for women's empowerment within a group setting, which of the following accurately describes validation?

Only women can be feminists.

When infants are born with an ambiguous or unclear gender, should they be assigned to one gender or the other? At that time, should they be physically altered to more closely resemble the assigned gender?

_____ involves the idea that in a perfect world all citizens would have identical rights, protection, opportunities, obligations, and social benefits, regardless of their backgrounds and membership in diverse groups.

Define resiliency, and explain the two dimensions involved.

A ______ is a fixed mental picture of a member of some specified group based on some attribute or attributes that reflect an overly simplified view of that group, without consideration or appreciation of individual differences.

The Intersex Society of North America is a group of lesbian and gay people who maintain that they make up 10% of the U.S. population.

The two dimensions of resiliency are age factors and predictive factors.

The book of Islamic scriptures is called the Torah.

_____ are members of a group of people who, because of physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment, and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination.

Non-Asian women of color are less likely to be poor than white women.

_____ is a collective term that refers to the major groups of African, Latino, Asian Americans, and First Nations Peoples who have been distinguished from the dominant society by complexion.

Social class is defined as the relatively coherent system of ideas about human nature, institutional arrangements, and social processes that indicate how a government should be run and what principles that government should support.

The Ten Percent Society is an organization that is comprised of Muslim women.

Cite and contrast the terms spirituality and religion.

Which of the following is a primary underlying principle of the strengths perspective articulated by Saleebey?

One of the primary underlying principles of Saleebey's strengths perspective is that every environment is full of resources.

The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) (2008c) recommends all of the following regarding how intersex children and their families should be treated except: