Sociology In Modules 4th Edition By Schaefer – Test Bank

Overview

Chapter 11

Stratification by Gender and Sexuality

Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following terms refers to expectations regarding the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females?
   A.expressiveness
   B. gender roles
   C. gender schema
   D. instrumentality

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Blooms: Remember
Learning Objective: Explain the meaning of the phrase the social construction of gender.
Question Category: Definition
Topic: Gender roles

2. The expectation that women will be emotionally supportive is an example of
   A.a genetic trait.
   B. a gender role.
   C. homophobia.
   D. None of these answers is correct.

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Blooms: Understand
Learning Objective: Describe women’s and men’s gender roles and the process of gender-role socialization in the United States.
Question Category: Information
Topic: Gender roles

3. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality is called
   A.homophobia.
   B. gay fright.
   C. Ebonics.
   D. heterophobia.

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Blooms: Remember
Learning Objective: Describe women’s and men’s gender roles and the process of gender-role socialization in the United States.
Question Category: Definition
Topic: Gender roles

4. A man doing which of the following would be a violation of the male gender role?
   A.playing football
   B. getting into a fight
   C. joining a knitting circle
   D. spitting

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Blooms: Apply
Learning Objective: Describe women’s and men’s gender roles and the process of gender-role socialization in the United States.
Question Category: Application-Concept
Topic: Gender roles

5. Research on children’s books published in the U.S. in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s found that
   A.females were significantly overrepresented in central roles and illustrations.
   B. female characters were portrayed as passive and in need of strong males.
   C. females were portrayed as competent and generally equal to males.
   D. All of these answers are correct.

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Blooms: Remember
Learning Objective: Describe women’s and men’s gender roles and the process of gender-role socialization in the United States.
Question Category: Information
Topic: Gender roles

6. Among couples in which one person is a stay-at-home parent, ________ percent have the mother staying home, while ________ percent have the father staying home.
   A.40; 6
   B. 42; 24
   C. 54; 27
   D. 84; 16

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Blooms: Remember
Learning Objective: Describe women’s and men’s gender roles and the process of gender-role socialization in the United States.
Question Category: Information
Topic: Gender roles

7. When Ted consoles his sister about a difficult romantic breakup, works a day shift as a construction worker, and sings nursery rhymes to his young daughter so that she may fall asleep, he is portraying
   A.expressiveness.
   B. multiple masculinities.
   C. instrumentality.
   D. gender expectations.

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Blooms: Apply
Learning Objective: Describe women’s and men’s gender roles and the process of gender-role socialization in the United States.
Question Category: Application-Concept
Topic: Gender roles

8. Which sociologist discussed the concept of and coined the term for multiple masculinities?
   A.Arlie Hochschild
   B. R. W. Connell
   C. Margaret Mead
   D. Robert Merton

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Blooms: Remember
Learning Objective: Describe women’s and men’s gender roles and the process of gender-role socialization in the United States.
Question Category: Sociologists
Topic: Gender roles

9. The idea that men play a variety of gender roles, including a nurturing-caring role and an effeminate-gay role, in addition to their traditional gender role of dominating women, is referred to as
   A.multidimensional males.
   B. multiple masculinities.
   C. multifaceted men.
   D. None of these answers is correct.

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Blooms: Remember
Learning Objective: Describe women’s and men’s gender roles and the process of gender-role socialization in the United States.
Question Category: Information
Topic: Gender roles

10. Functionalists view gender roles in which of the following ways?
    A.Gender roles assist in keeping women oppressed within the family structure.
    B. Gender roles have a bias toward male power.
    C. Gender roles are necessary to keep the family in balance.
    D. All of these answers are correct.

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Blooms: Understand
Learning Objective: Analyze the functionalist, conflict, feminist, and interactionist explanations of gender stratification.
Question Category: Information
Topic: Sociological perspectives