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Higher Education

Thinking About Sociology, Second Edition - Chapter 14

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Question 1:

What did Talcott Parsons turn to, to explain the different roles that men and women took within the family?
a) Politics
b) Biology
c) Culture
d) Religion

Question 2:

What did Newton claim that called into question the naturalness of the sex-role system?
a) Homosexuality
b) Drag
c) Biology
d) Animal behaviour

Question 3:

What term is used to describe the activity of managing one’s conduct in a way that is consistent with what is generally considered appropriate to one’s sex category?
a) Gender stereotyping
b) Doing gender
c) Non-reflexive disposition
d) Achieving gender

Question 4:

According to feminist scholars, gender is the product of which of the following?
a) Dogma
b) Social interactions
c) Biology
d) Religion

Question 5:

According to Judith Butler, all gender is created and sustained through which of the following?
a) Politics
b) Sexual practices
c) Consumerism
d) Performativity

Question 6:

According to sociologists, what perpetuates inequalities between men and women?
a) Biology
b) Individualism
c) Religion
d) Culture

Question 7:

Prior to 1915, what right did women did not have?
a) To work outside the home
b) To vote
c) To own property
d) To travel alone

Question 8:

What is one of the most time-consuming activities performed in the home?
a) Cooking
b) Cleaning
c) Laundry
d) Child care

Question 9:

In the close to 100 years since Canadian women gained the vote federally, only three have been elected to which position?
a) National party leader
b) Attorney general
c) Speaker of the house
d) Prime Minister

Question 10:

What was frequently cited by Gerson’s interviewees as the key ingredient of cohesive, egalitarian, and financially secure homes?
a) Polyandry
b) Serial monogamy
c) Gender flexibility
d) Stability

Question 11:

Durkeim discovered what he considered to be an anomaly between the suicide rates of men and women in most western European counties.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

Because of the work of feminist scholars, few sociologists by the early 1980s were likely to accept biological determinism as an explanation of gender differences.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

To put it simply, gender stereotypes imply inequality.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

Pilgeram’s work strongly suggests that gender is biologically determined.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

Being assigned to either male or female sex category does not naturally result in category-appropriate, gendered behaviour.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

A 2011 Bloomberg report estimated that, globally, women control about 30 per cent of customer spending.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Twice as many women over the age of 65 years than men are low income.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Compared to male university graduates, female graduates are less likely to be concentrated in traditional occupations.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Young women today continue to have less involvement in paid work and more involvement in unpaid domestic work, child care, and senior care than men of the same generation do.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

The proportion of Canadians choosing to live in common-law unions has decreased over the past 30 years.
a) True
b) False