question archive What is the term for the biological characteristics distinguishing male and female? Gender Sex Sexual orientation Gender roles What is the term for the social, cultural and psychological characteristics linked to males and females, that define people as masculine and feminine? Gender Sex Sexual orientation Gender roles What is the term for the expected attitudes and behaviors a society associates with each sex? Sex Gender Sexual Orientation Gender roles What is the belief that one sex is innately superior to the other? Patriarchy Matriarchy Sexism gender domination If you were a functionalist, with which of the following statements would you DISAGREE? Functionalism does not demonstrate the functional utility of assigning tasks on the basis of gender
What is the term for the biological characteristics distinguishing male and female? Gender Sex Sexual orientation Gender roles What is the term for the social, cultural and psychological characteristics linked to males and females, that define people as masculine and feminine? Gender Sex Sexual orientation Gender roles What is the term for the expected attitudes and behaviors a society associates with each sex? Sex Gender Sexual Orientation Gender roles What is the belief that one sex is innately superior to the other? Patriarchy Matriarchy Sexism gender domination If you were a functionalist, with which of the following statements would you DISAGREE? Functionalism does not demonstrate the functional utility of assigning tasks on the basis of gender
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What is the term for the biological characteristics distinguishing male and female?
Gender
Sex
Sexual orientation
Gender roles
What is the term for the social, cultural and psychological characteristics linked to males and females, that define people as masculine and feminine?
Gender
Sex
Sexual orientation
Gender roles
What is the term for the expected attitudes and behaviors a society associates with each sex?
Sex
Gender
Sexual Orientation
Gender roles
What is the belief that one sex is innately superior to the other?
Patriarchy
Matriarchy
Sexism
gender domination
If you were a functionalist, with which of the following statements would you DISAGREE?
Functionalism does not demonstrate the functional utility of assigning
tasks on the basis of gender.
Separate gender roles for women and men are beneficial.
The family can be disrupted if there is too much overlap in
the complementary and specialized roles of the spouses.
Which of the following is TRUE, in terms of the conflict perspective on gender roles?
Capitalism reduces male domination, both inside and outside the home.
Men's economic advantage provides the basis for gender inequality both
inside and outside the home.
Only modern, not traditional, gender beliefs are viewed as sexist ideology.
Women are not emancipated, even when they take part in paid production.
Which branch of the feminist movement is based on the simple idea that all people are created equal and should not be denied equality of opportunity because of gender?
Liberal Feminism
Socialist Feminism
Radical Feminism
Multicultural Feminism
Which branch of the feminist movement believes that no woman is free until the conditions that oppress women worldwide are eliminated?
Liberal Feminism
Socialist Feminism
Radical Feminism
Multicultural Feminism
What is the term that refers to a situation where the majority of a particular occupation is made up of one gender, and it thus becomes a normative expectation?
gender-typing
gender discrimination
gender norming
genderism
The ____________ is the term that describes women's failure to rise to senior-level positions because of invisible and artificial barriers constructed by male management.
"glass escalator effect"
"glass ceiling"
"ceiling of upper management"
"transparent ceiling"
Which of the following scenarios applies to the concept of comparable worth?
Women should hold political offices in proportion to their numbers in the population.
A woman who performs a job comparable to a man's should be paid the same.
Whatever their occupations, working people contribute equally to an economy and should be comparably rewarded.
In capitalist societies, the market should determine payments for jobs.
What is the difference between race and ethnicity?
Ethnicity is a matter of biology, but race is not.
Race refers to the sharing of common parentage through many generations
Ethnicity is a matter of culture.
Race and ethnicity are interchangeable terms.
What is the term for a negative attitude toward an entire category of people?
Scapegoating
Racism
Prejudice
Stereotype
What is the term for a broad overgeneralization about a category of people that is applied to all members of the category?
Scapegoating
Racism
Prejudice
Stereotype
What is the term for treating individuals unequally and unjustly on the basis of their group memberships?
Scapegoating
Racism
Prejudice
Discrimination
What is the term for the extermination of all or most of the members of a minority group?
genocide
pluralism
eugenics
assimilation
Which of the following statements best describes the basic logic of interactionist theories of prejudice and discrimination?
Prejudice satisfies distinctive personality-level needs.
People learn prejudice and discrimination from those around them.
Prejudice and discrimination provide positive functions for some people.
Prejudice and discrimination help powerful groups maintain their advantages.
Slavery in the American South and apartheid in South Africa are historic examples of:
legal protection.
closed subjugation.
pluralism.
open subjugation
What is the term for the process by which minorities shed their differences and blend in with the dominant group?
segregation
pluralism
subjugation
assimilation
