Multiple Choice Questions

In Brazil, gender is determined by:
  • nature and nurture
  • social characteristics.
  • sexual practice.
  • smoke cigarettes.
Under the sex/gender system, men universally perform the kinds of tasks that:
  • emotional sensitivity
  • nature and nurture
  • require more strength.
  • social characteristics.
The study of gender is basically the study of how two spheres shape each other. What are the two spheres?
  • nature and nurture
  • glass ceiling
  • biological determinism.
  • reproduction.
Prison rape is usually about power, and a man who commits a homosexual act within prison:
  • Infant females are at greater risk of death.
  • invisible because it is regarded as the norm.
  • does not necessarily view himself as a homosexual.
  • social discomfort and fear of difference
Why do parents and surgeons push to assign a sex to a genitally ambiguous child?
  • Infant females are at greater risk of death.
  • social characteristics.
  • social discomfort and fear of difference
  • does not necessarily view himself as a homosexual.
Surgeons today recommend prompt surgery to make intersex children conform to an ideal of normal genitalia. About 90 percent of these surgeries:
  • invisible because it is regarded as the norm.
  • Teens believe if they don't climax they will not get an STD.
  • reassign an ambiguous male anatomy into a female one.
  • does not necessarily view himself as a homosexual.
What term best describes a behavior or attitude where a person's sex is the basis for prejudicial discrimination and where sex may matter more than a person's performance or merit?
  • glass ceiling
  • sexism
  • False
  • structural functionalism
What you do in the social world should be a direct result of who you are in the natural world. This statement refers to:
  • biological determinism.
  • emotional sensitivity
  • nature and nurture
  • social characteristics.
What term refers to the invisible barriers women face when they enter more prestigious corporate worlds?
  • social characteristics.
  • reproduction.
  • glass ceiling
  • nature and nurture
One of the key economic factors that continue to benefit men in work in a post-industrial is their biological advantages in terms of physical size and strength
  • True
  • False
In the one-sex model, it was believed that both a man's and a woman's orgasm were required for conception. When the two-sex model gained momentum, women and men were viewed as radically different creatures, and the female orgasm became viewed as:
  • True
  • unnecessary
  • glass ceiling
  • False
Opponents of gay and lesbian couplings claim that homosexuality is "unnatural" because they believe sex should only be about:
  • reproduction.
  • glass ceiling
  • emotional sensitivity
  • nature and nurture
In agrarian societies, people no longer have to move continually in search of food and they can acquire a surplus. Men gain control over the disposition of the surplus and the kinship system, and this control serves men's interests.
  • True
  • False
T of F? At birth, male and female infants are distinguished by secondary sex characteristics: the genitalia used in the reproductive process
  • True
  • False
An essentialist would argue all of the following for why women outnumber men in occupations that involve caring EXCEPT:
  • reassign an ambiguous male anatomy into a female one.
  • Teens believe if they don't climax they will not get an STD.
  • gender establishes different cultures and expectations for men and women.
  • does not necessarily view himself as a homosexual.
Which theoretical perspective assumed that every society had certain structures that existed to fulfill some set of necessary functions?
  • social characteristics.
  • structural functionalism
  • emotional sensitivity
  • sexism
Similar to hegemonic masculinity, social problems that exist within a dominant group in a society tend to be:
  • Teens believe if they don't climax they will not get an STD.
  • reassign an ambiguous male anatomy into a female one.
  • does not necessarily view himself as a homosexual.
  • invisible because it is regarded as the norm.
If we apply our sociological imaginations to sex, gender, and sexuality, we might argue that:
  • gender establishes different cultures and expectations for men and women.
  • does not necessarily view himself as a homosexual.
  • although biological differences exist between men and women, what we make of those differences is socially constructed and has changed through time and place.
  • it viewed sexuality as falling on a continuum, thus challenging the psychiatric claim of homosexuality as "abnormal."
T or F? In regard to female dominated jobs, sociologists have found that only men suffer an economic penalty when they work in jobs that employ mostly women.
  • True
  • False
The basic idea behind feminism is that women and men should be:
  • social discomfort and fear of difference
  • more likely to interrupt (and to get away with it).
  • Infant females are at greater risk of death.
  • accorded equal opportunities and respect.
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