Week 10 – Flashcard Answers
Flashcard maker : Patrick Turner
The study of gender is basically the study of how two spheres shape eachother.What are the two spheres?
Nature and nurture
Gender structures social relationships between people unequally. This statement would be supported by which group?
Feminists
Hegemonic masculinity can best be described as
The dominant, privileged, and often invisible category of men at any point in history.
Although a binary sex system imposes order in the world and helps us make sense of a complicated mass of populations, it also…
limits our ability to accept difference
Which theory might argue that it is beneficial for society as a whole wen men and women stick to their normal roles?
Parson’s sex role theory
According to Robert Merton, middle range theories are useful because they
connect our day to day experiences to larger social forces
When token men enter feminized jobs, they enjoy a quicker rise to leadership positions. This is referred to as:
Glass escalator
Similar to hegemonic masculinity, social problems that exist within a dominant group in a society tend to be:
Invisible because it is regarded as the norm
The basic idea behind feminism is that men and women should be:
accorded equal opportunities and respect
What term refers to desire, sexual preference, sexual identity, and behavior?
Sexuality
What argument do Reskin and Roos use to support the reason women end up in lower paid jobs?
These jobs aren’t attractive to men
According to Judith Lorber, differences between the sexes are not easy to explain because gender isn’t natural but rather:
A social institution
Under the sex/gender system, men universally perform the kind of tasks that:
are accorded higher value than those done by women
Alfred Kinsey’s 1948 study “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” is important because:
It viewed sexuality as falling on a continuum, thus challenging the psychiatric claim of homosexuality as abnormal.
What did Parsons call the theory that states the nuclear family is the ideal arrangement in modern society because it fulfills the function of reproducing workers?
Sex role theory
If we apply our sociological imaginations to sex, gender, and sexuality, we might argue that:
Although biological differences exist between men and women, what we make of those differences is socially constructed and has changed through time and place.
What did Elizabeth Grosz say about the relationship between sex and gender?
They’re two sides of the same coin and thus inseperable.
While the notion of sex refers to biological differences, the concept of gender refers to:
Social characteristics
Term referring to invisible barriers women face when they enter more prestigious corporate worlds:
glass cieling
Which female group was left out of the early liberal feminism stating gender intersects with race, class, nationality, and religion?
Black feminists
Which theoretical perspective assumed that every society had certain structures that existed to fulfill some set of necessary functions?
Structural functionalism
