Question 1

Distinction is a foundation concept for an understanding of the sociology of gender because

Accepted Answer

A)  without distinguishing men from women, there would be no basis for gender difference or inequality. 
B)  empowering women is about achievement and distinguishing oneself from others. 
C)  there are two, distinct sexes and that difference is gender. 
D)  gender inequality is distinctively different and operates on different principles than other types of inequality. 
A)  without distinguishing men from women, there would be no basis for gender difference or inequality. 
B)  empowering women is about achievement and distinguishing oneself from others. 
C)  there are two, distinct sexes and that difference is gender. 
D)  gender inequality is distinctively different and operates on different principles than other types of inequality. A

Question 2

Which of the following descriptions best conveys the meaning of the term gender binary?

Accepted Answer

A)  a system with two and only two separate and distinct parts 
B)  the idea that there are only two types of people-male-bodied people and female-bodied people 
C)  the idea that there are two types of people-male-bodied people who are masculine and female-bodied people who are feminine 
D)  a system with masculine and feminine persons 
A)  a system with two and only two separate and distinct parts 
B)  the idea that there are only two types of people-male-bodied people and female-bodied people 
C)  the idea that there are two types of people-male-bodied people who are masculine and female-bodied people who are feminine 
D)  a system with masculine and feminine persons C

Question 3

What percentage of the population are estimated to be intersexed or transsexual?

Accepted Answer

A)  10 percent 
B)  0.2 percent 
C)  95 percent 
D)  1 percent 
A)  10 percent 
B)  0.2 percent 
C)  95 percent 
D)  1 percent D

Question 4

Which of the following concepts describes the capacity to assume that we are unique by reconciling our own complex identity with what is known about men and women?

Accepted Answer

A)  gender binary 
B)  gender ideology 
C)  the personal exception theory of gender 
D)  gender identity 
A)  gender binary 
B)  gender ideology 
C)  the personal exception theory of gender 
D)  gender identity

Question 5

What does it mean to say that gender is a social construct? What biological evidence led scholars to conclude that gender is a social construct? How about cultural or historical evidence? Is there anything in your own life that could be used as evidence that gender is a social construct?

Accepted Answer

To say that gender is a social construct

Question 6

What does it mean to say that we use gender ideologies to organize our worlds?

Accepted Answer

When we say that we use gender ideologie

Question 7

Describing people as male-bodied or female-bodied helps capture the fact that:

Accepted Answer

A)  there are biological differences in primary and secondary sexual characteristics 
B)  we connect to being male or female to symbols of masculinity and femininity. 
C)  the shape of our body may not extend to how a person feels or acts. 
D)  we naturalize and justify inequality. 
A)  there are biological differences in primary and secondary sexual characteristics 
B)  we connect to being male or female to symbols of masculinity and femininity. 
C)  the shape of our body may not extend to how a person feels or acts. 
D)  we naturalize and justify inequality.

Question 8

In the Dominican Republic, a rare genetic condition made male children appear to be female until puberty, at which time what had been thought to be a clitoris grew into a penis and their testes suddenly descended from their abdomen. What happened then?

Accepted Answer

A)  These children would keep their feminine identities and cover their genitals for the rest of their lives. 
B)  These children would be women but remain sexually inactive for the rest of their lives. 
C)  These children would grow with the stigma of having abnormal bodies. 
D)  These children would adopt masculine identities and live as men the rest of their lives. 
A)  These children would keep their feminine identities and cover their genitals for the rest of their lives. 
B)  These children would be women but remain sexually inactive for the rest of their lives. 
C)  These children would grow with the stigma of having abnormal bodies. 
D)  These children would adopt masculine identities and live as men the rest of their lives.

Question 9

Which one of the following statements is NOT about gender binary glasses?

Accepted Answer

A)  They allow us to separate everything we see into masculine and feminine categories. 
B)  They provide us with cultural competence. 
C)  They exaggerate biological reality. 
D)  They help us interact with others in a meaningful way. 
A)  They allow us to separate everything we see into masculine and feminine categories. 
B)  They provide us with cultural competence. 
C)  They exaggerate biological reality. 
D)  They help us interact with others in a meaningful way.

Question 10

What does the Implicit Association Test (IAT) demonstrate?

Accepted Answer

A)  That men and women have different brains. 
B)  That we unconsciously associate feminine things with one another  and masculine things with one another . 
C)  That our gender binary glasses help us to remember things better. 
D)  That our brain is not well-suited to register the gender binary. 
A)  That men and women have different brains. 
B)  That we unconsciously associate feminine things with one another  and masculine things with one another . 
C)  That our gender binary glasses help us to remember things better. 
D)  That our brain is not well-suited to register the gender binary.

Question 11

According to a social constructionist approach to gender, which of the following statements is NOT true?

Accepted Answer

A)  Some societies have more than two genders; some even have five. 
B)  The gender binary is universal. 
C)  In some countries, feminine men are a third gender. 
D)  Genitals don't always determine one's gender. 
A)  Some societies have more than two genders; some even have five. 
B)  The gender binary is universal. 
C)  In some countries, feminine men are a third gender. 
D)  Genitals don't always determine one's gender.

Question 12

How does our associative memory work to make the gender binary seem more real than it is?

Accepted Answer

A)  We constantly overlook, forget, or misremember any exceptions to the gender binary. 
B)  We recall gender stereotypes during childhood only, but misremember experiences in later years. 
C)  We tend to better remember bodies that are stereotype-inconsistent with the gender binary. 
D)  All of the above. 
A)  We constantly overlook, forget, or misremember any exceptions to the gender binary. 
B)  We recall gender stereotypes during childhood only, but misremember experiences in later years. 
C)  We tend to better remember bodies that are stereotype-inconsistent with the gender binary. 
D)  All of the above.

Question 13

What is the personal exception theory of gender?

Accepted Answer

A)  that everyone has a gender, except for intersex persons 
B)  that we think gender stereotypes apply for everyone else but ourselves 
C)  the process by which something becomes a man or a woman 
D)  that everyone is gendered except when they deviate from gender norms 
A)  that everyone has a gender, except for intersex persons 
B)  that we think gender stereotypes apply for everyone else but ourselves 
C)  the process by which something becomes a man or a woman 
D)  that everyone is gendered except when they deviate from gender norms

Question 14

If bodies are functional, but don't fit into the gender binary, is that a problem? For who, and why?

Accepted Answer

The answer of If bodies are functional, but don't fit...

Question 15

Which one of the following examples demonstrates that gender ideologies vary considerably from culture to culture?

Accepted Answer

A)  In Albania, girls can live as boys and grow up to be socially recognized men. 
B)  In Afghanistan, families without sons pick a daughter to become a boy. This way the child "dressed up like a boy" can obtain an extensive education and/or support their family by working outside the home. 
C)  The Dutch do not teach children that men have "male" hormones and women have "female" hormones, but that hormone levels vary among men and among women and that these levels rise and fall in response to different situations and as people of both sexes age. 
D)  All of the above. 
A)  In Albania, girls can live as boys and grow up to be socially recognized men. 
B)  In Afghanistan, families without sons pick a daughter to become a boy. This way the child "dressed up like a boy" can obtain an extensive education and/or support their family by working outside the home. 
C)  The Dutch do not teach children that men have "male" hormones and women have "female" hormones, but that hormone levels vary among men and among women and that these levels rise and fall in response to different situations and as people of both sexes age. 
D)  All of the above.

Question 16

If the gender binary doesn't describe a large number of the people we know, where does the idea come from?

Accepted Answer

The answer of If the gender binary doesn't describe a...

Question 17

The word gender refers to

Accepted Answer

A)  biological differences in primary and secondary sexual characteristics. 
B)  the symbolism of masculinity and femininity that we connect to being male or female. 
C)  the fact that the shape of our body may not extend to how a person feels or acts. 
D)  the primary way we naturalize and justify inequality. 
A)  biological differences in primary and secondary sexual characteristics. 
B)  the symbolism of masculinity and femininity that we connect to being male or female. 
C)  the fact that the shape of our body may not extend to how a person feels or acts. 
D)  the primary way we naturalize and justify inequality.

Question 18

Which of the following is correct?

Accepted Answer

A)  Seventeenth century anatomists believed that females had the same bodies as males, only inverted, while today we know that female and male bodies are completely different. 
B)  Seventeenth century anatomists believed the female body was completely different than the male body. By contrast, we now know that some female and male genitalia develop from the same fetal tissue. 
C)  Seventeenth century anatomists believed that females were "men turned outside in"; however, today we know that female and male bodies are neither the same, nor absolute opposites. 
D)  Ninety-nine percent of the population who are either female or male have opposite bodies, but some individuals who are either intersexed or transsexuals display a combination of female and male characteristics. 
A)  Seventeenth century anatomists believed that females had the same bodies as males, only inverted, while today we know that female and male bodies are completely different. 
B)  Seventeenth century anatomists believed the female body was completely different than the male body. By contrast, we now know that some female and male genitalia develop from the same fetal tissue. 
C)  Seventeenth century anatomists believed that females were "men turned outside in"; however, today we know that female and male bodies are neither the same, nor absolute opposites. 
D)  Ninety-nine percent of the population who are either female or male have opposite bodies, but some individuals who are either intersexed or transsexuals display a combination of female and male characteristics.

Question 19

The logic behind the gender binary neither accounts for the 1 percent whose biological markers aren't clearly in the male/female category, nor the 99 percent who are actively working to improve the fit of their bodies into the binary. What are the implications of this conclusion?

Accepted Answer

The implications of this conclusion are

Question 20

Which of the following statements expresses the personal exception theory of gender?

Accepted Answer

A)  "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" (title of a 1983 Cyndi Lauper song) 
B)  Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (title of a 1992 book by John Gray) 
C)  "What Does a Woman Want?" (Sigmund Freud: Life and Work, 1953) 
D)  Not That Kind of Girl (title of a 2014 book by Lena Dunham) 
A)  "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" (title of a 1983 Cyndi Lauper song) 
B)  Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (title of a 1992 book by John Gray) 
C)  "What Does a Woman Want?" (Sigmund Freud: Life and Work, 1953) 
D)  Not That Kind of Girl (title of a 2014 book by Lena Dunham)

Distinction is a foundation concept for an understanding of the sociology of gender because

Which of the following descriptions best conveys the meaning of the term gender binary?

What percentage of the population are estimated to be intersexed or transsexual?

Which of the following concepts describes the capacity to assume that we are unique by reconciling our own complex identity with what is known about men and women?

What does it mean to say that gender is a social construct? What biological evidence led scholars to conclude that gender is a social construct? How about cultural or historical evidence? Is there anything in your own life that could be used as evidence that gender is a social construct?

What does it mean to say that we use gender ideologies to organize our worlds?

Describing people as male-bodied or female-bodied helps capture the fact that:

In the Dominican Republic, a rare genetic condition made male children appear to be female until puberty, at which time what had been thought to be a clitoris grew into a penis and their testes suddenly descended from their abdomen. What happened then?

Which one of the following statements is NOT about gender binary glasses?

What does the Implicit Association Test (IAT) demonstrate?

According to a social constructionist approach to gender, which of the following statements is NOT true?

How does our associative memory work to make the gender binary seem more real than it is?

What is the personal exception theory of gender?

If bodies are functional, but don't fit into the gender binary, is that a problem? For who, and why?

Which one of the following examples demonstrates that gender ideologies vary considerably from culture to culture?

If the gender binary doesn't describe a large number of the people we know, where does the idea come from?

The word gender refers to

Which of the following is correct?

The logic behind the gender binary neither accounts for the 1 percent whose biological markers aren't clearly in the male/female category, nor the 99 percent who are actively working to improve the fit of their bodies into the binary. What are the implications of this conclusion?

Which of the following statements expresses the personal exception theory of gender?

Bodies

Performance

Intersections

Inequality, Men and Masculinities

Inequality: Women and Femininities

Institutions

Change

Sexualities

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Work

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Exam 2: Ideas

Distinction is a foundation concept for an understanding of the sociology of gender because

Which of the following descriptions best conveys the meaning of the term gender binary?

What percentage of the population are estimated to be intersexed or transsexual?

Which of the following concepts describes the capacity to assume that we are unique by reconciling our own complex identity with what is known about men and women?

What does it mean to say that gender is a social construct? What biological evidence led scholars to conclude that gender is a social construct? How about cultural or historical evidence? Is there anything in your own life that could be used as evidence that gender is a social construct?

What does it mean to say that we use gender ideologies to organize our worlds?

Describing people as male-bodied or female-bodied helps capture the fact that:

In the Dominican Republic, a rare genetic condition made male children appear to be female until puberty, at which time what had been thought to be a clitoris grew into a penis and their testes suddenly descended from their abdomen. What happened then?

Which one of the following statements is NOT about gender binary glasses?

What does the Implicit Association Test (IAT) demonstrate?

According to a social constructionist approach to gender, which of the following statements is NOT true?

How does our associative memory work to make the gender binary seem more real than it is?

What is the personal exception theory of gender?

If bodies are functional, but don't fit into the gender binary, is that a problem? For who, and why?

Which one of the following examples demonstrates that gender ideologies vary considerably from culture to culture?

If the gender binary doesn't describe a large number of the people we know, where does the idea come from?

The word gender refers to

Which of the following is correct?

The logic behind the gender binary neither accounts for the 1 percent whose biological markers aren't clearly in the male/female category, nor the 99 percent who are actively working to improve the fit of their bodies into the binary. What are the implications of this conclusion?

Which of the following statements expresses the personal exception theory of gender?

Bodies

Performance

Intersections

Inequality, Men and Masculinities

Inequality: Women and Femininities

Institutions

Change

Sexualities

Families

Work

Politics

Filters