Question 1

According to the text,how do liberals and conservatives feel about sex-segregated sports teams?

Accepted Answer

A) Conservatives support sex-segregated sports teams while liberals are opposed to them. 
B) Conservatives are opposed to sex-segregated sports teams while liberals support them. 
C) Both conservatives and liberals tend to support sex-segregated sports teams. 
D) Both conservatives and liberals tend to oppose sex-segregated sports teams. 
A) Conservatives support sex-segregated sports teams while liberals are opposed to them. 
B) Conservatives are opposed to sex-segregated sports teams while liberals support them. 
C) Both conservatives and liberals tend to support sex-segregated sports teams. 
D) Both conservatives and liberals tend to oppose sex-segregated sports teams.

Question 2

What purpose do sex-segregated sports serve?

Accepted Answer

A) They challenge the hierarchical gender binary. 
B) They protect women from the idea that they are inferior athletes. 
C) They protect men from losing face. 
D) They help justify equal pay for female athletes. 
A) They challenge the hierarchical gender binary. 
B) They protect women from the idea that they are inferior athletes. 
C) They protect men from losing face. 
D) They help justify equal pay for female athletes.

Question 3

What is common to elementary schools,bathrooms,and bodybuilding?

Accepted Answer

A) They are governed more by gender policies than gender norms. 
B) They contribute toward diluting the matrix of domination. 
C) They affirm gender difference. 
D) They protect the idea that women are equal to men. 
A) They are governed more by gender policies than gender norms. 
B) They contribute toward diluting the matrix of domination. 
C) They affirm gender difference. 
D) They protect the idea that women are equal to men.

Question 4

The failure of efforts to install gender-neutral bathrooms in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University illustrates

Accepted Answer

A) the importance of winning support from transgender faculty staff members. 
B) that gender-neutral bathrooms aren't a feasible option. 
C) that changing institutions requires widespread support. 
D) the impact of discriminatory behavior by the building commissioner. 
A) the importance of winning support from transgender faculty staff members. 
B) that gender-neutral bathrooms aren't a feasible option. 
C) that changing institutions requires widespread support. 
D) the impact of discriminatory behavior by the building commissioner.

Question 5

Institutions are

Accepted Answer

A) organized arenas of production,such as a factory or a stadium,that facilitate a socially desired outcome. 
B) companies organized bureaucratically to make money by producing and selling a product. 
C) social organizations,like Congress or a city's police force,that aim to govern the people. 
D) persistent patterns of social interaction aimed at meeting the needs of a society that can't easily be met by individuals alone. 
A) organized arenas of production,such as a factory or a stadium,that facilitate a socially desired outcome. 
B) companies organized bureaucratically to make money by producing and selling a product. 
C) social organizations,like Congress or a city's police force,that aim to govern the people. 
D) persistent patterns of social interaction aimed at meeting the needs of a society that can't easily be met by individuals alone.

Question 6

Do you believe it's possible to just be an individual in today's society? Why or why not?

Accepted Answer

Students should recognize afte

Question 7

Victorian gender ideology held that women were

Accepted Answer

A) in need of medical attention rather than restrooms to cure feminine maladies. 
B) more fragile than men and less suited to working for pay. 
C) in a position to withstand more physical strain than men so long as they were in the home. 
D) more loyal to their work than men in a factory. 
A) in need of medical attention rather than restrooms to cure feminine maladies. 
B) more fragile than men and less suited to working for pay. 
C) in a position to withstand more physical strain than men so long as they were in the home. 
D) more loyal to their work than men in a factory.

Question 8

A study of pay in professional golfing concluded that the primary rationale for vast differences in prize money was

Accepted Answer

A) institutional regulations. 
B) gender. 
C) differences in skill. 
D) gender subordination. 
A) institutional regulations. 
B) gender. 
C) differences in skill. 
D) gender subordination.

Question 9

Sanitation,which involves the provision of toilets and the elimination of personal waste,is an institution because

Accepted Answer

A) it involves a hierarchy of employees who are promoted according to a bureaucratic scaffolding. 
B) the details of how we manage sanitation are dictated by the federal government. 
C) it is found,in one form or another,throughout the world. 
D) it solves a social problem that cannot easily be fixed by individuals working alone. 
A) it involves a hierarchy of employees who are promoted according to a bureaucratic scaffolding. 
B) the details of how we manage sanitation are dictated by the federal government. 
C) it is found,in one form or another,throughout the world. 
D) it solves a social problem that cannot easily be fixed by individuals working alone.

Question 10

What is gender salience? Give some examples of how the salience of gender in bathroom facilities varies.In light of these observations,what conclusions can we draw about what purpose sex-segregated bathrooms serve?

Accepted Answer

Gender salience refers to how the import

Question 11

Sex-segregated bathrooms serve __________ function(s).

Accepted Answer

A) biological 
B) social 
C) social and biological 
D) no 
A) biological 
B) social 
C) social and biological 
D) no

According to the text,how do liberals and conservatives feel about sex-segregated sports teams?

What purpose do sex-segregated sports serve?

What is common to elementary schools,bathrooms,and bodybuilding?

The failure of efforts to install gender-neutral bathrooms in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University illustrates

Institutions are

Do you believe it's possible to just be an individual in today's society? Why or why not?

Victorian gender ideology held that women were

A study of pay in professional golfing concluded that the primary rationale for vast differences in prize money was

Sanitation,which involves the provision of toilets and the elimination of personal waste,is an institution because

What is gender salience? Give some examples of how the salience of gender in bathroom facilities varies.In light of these observations,what conclusions can we draw about what purpose sex-segregated bathrooms serve?

Sex-segregated bathrooms serve __________ function(s).

Ideas

Bodies

Performances

Intersections

Inequality: Men and Masculinities

Inequality: Women and Femininities

Change

Sexualities

Families

Work

Politics

Filters

Exam 7: Institutions

According to the text,how do liberals and conservatives feel about sex-segregated sports teams?

What purpose do sex-segregated sports serve?

What is common to elementary schools,bathrooms,and bodybuilding?

The failure of efforts to install gender-neutral bathrooms in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University illustrates

Institutions are

Do you believe it's possible to just be an individual in today's society? Why or why not?

Victorian gender ideology held that women were

A study of pay in professional golfing concluded that the primary rationale for vast differences in prize money was

Sanitation,which involves the provision of toilets and the elimination of personal waste,is an institution because

What is gender salience? Give some examples of how the salience of gender in bathroom facilities varies.In light of these observations,what conclusions can we draw about what purpose sex-segregated bathrooms serve?

Sex-segregated bathrooms serve __________ function(s).

Ideas

Bodies

Performances

Intersections

Inequality: Men and Masculinities

Inequality: Women and Femininities

Change

Sexualities

Families

Work

Politics

Filters