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44 Cards in this Set
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We are likely to assume that parental duties are
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maternal duties
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__ refers to expectations regarding the proper behavior, attitudes, & activities of males & females
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gender role
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Expectations regarding the proper behavior, attitudes and activities of males and females is:
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gender roles
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6 year old Sally spanks her doll for misbehaving. This is an example of what kind of gender role?
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a feminine
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Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality is called:
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homophobia
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In most cases, the crucial agents of gender role socialization are
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parents
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What social institutions play an important role in gender role socialization in the US?
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other adults, older siblings, the mass media, and religious and educational institutions
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Research of kids books in the Us in the 1940s, 50s, & 60s indicated that female characters were portrayed as:
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helpless, passive, incompetent and in need of strong males
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__ & __ have found 5 aspects of male gender roles (antifeminine, success, aggressive, sexual, and self reliant)
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Robert Brannon; James Doyle
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List the 5 aspects by Robert & James
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1. Antifeminine - show no sissy stuff
2. Success - proves masculinity 3. Aggressive - use force with others 4. Sexual - initiate/control all sexual relations 5. Self Reliant - keep your cool |
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Males who do not conform to the socially constructed gender role face:
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criticism and humiliation from children when they are boys and adults as men.
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Margaret Mead said that gender roles are products of:
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physical environment, economy and political system
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Margaret Mead study in New Guinea, she discovered that gender roles for males and females are:
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reserved from our cultural conceptions of masculine & feminine
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Who studied Arapesh, the Mundgumor, and the Tchambuli and theorized that gender role behavior is determined by culture and transmitted through socialization
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Margaret Mead
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Talcott Parsons & Robert Bales did 3 things:
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1.Distinguished instrumentality/ expressiveness
2.conducted a cross cultural analysis on gender roles 3. said families benefit from traditional division of labor between men and women |
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__ is used by Talcott & Robert to refer to an emphasis on tasks, a focus on more distant goals, and a concern for external relationship between one's family and other social institutions
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instrimentality
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Jerry spends every day all week at the office. This is the ___ role in US society.
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Instrumentality
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The instrumental role is most likely performed by:
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men
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What role do men take in the family?
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men become anchored in the occupational world outside the home
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__ refers to concern for the maintenances of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family
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expressiveness
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Marsha, a new employee at a day care, is praised by her boss for being warm to the children. This is the __ role in the US society
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expressiveness
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What perspective is criticized because it does not explain why men should be assigned to the instrumental role and women to the expressive role
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functionalist
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What perspective would argue with Talcott & Robert's analysis of gender roles masks underlying power relations between men and women
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Functionalist
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__ perspective emphasizes that the relationship between women and men has been one of unequal power with men in the dominant position over women
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conflict (maybe feminist)
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__ perspective says that men may have become powerful; in preindustrial times because their size, physical strength, and freedom from childbearing duties allowed them to dominate women physically
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conflict (maybe feminist)
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Conflict theorists would view gender differences as:
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a reflection of the subjugation of one group (women) by another group (men).
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Using Marx's analysis of class conflict, conflict theorists argue that women are in a position comparable to that of the:
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workers or proletariat
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Using Marx's analysis of class conflict, conflict theorists argue that men are in a position comparable to that of the:
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bourgeoisie or capitalists
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One of the earliest documents written by a Us feminist was ___ by Mary W.
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a vindication of the Rights of Women
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A Vindication of the Rights of Women was published in 1972 and written by:
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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The Subjection of Women was published in 1869 and was written by:
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John Stuart Mills
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The Origin of Private Property, Family, and the State was published in 1884 and was written by:
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Friedrich Engles
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Friedrich Engels, a close friend of Karl Marx, argued that women's subjugation by men: with the rise of ____ during industrialization
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private property
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Feminist sociologists would argue that the discussion of women and society has been distorted by the exclusion of ___ from academic thought.
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Women
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The ___ perspective has influenced the creation of the feminist perspective the most
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Feminist
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Some radical feminist theorists view the oppression of women as ___ regardless of whether it is a capitalist, socialist, or communist society.
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Inevitable
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The early work of Jane Adams and Ida Wells was excluded from most academic thought because:
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they worked outside the discipline, focusing on what we would now call applied sociology and social work
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__ perspective argues that it is not possible to drastically change gender roles without dramatic revisions in a culture's social structure
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Conflict & feminist
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Researchers found that in conversations between males and females, ___ are more likely to interrupt ___ than vice versa
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Men; women
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Simple daily verbal exchanges between males and females are a battleground in the struggle for sexual equality, as women and girls try to get a word in edgewise in the midst of interruptions and verbal dominance by males. What perspective would focus on this issue?
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Interactionist
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Male dominance is a reflection of macro-level relationships. What perspective would address this issue?
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Interactionist
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Educators are concerned about the way girls are affected by verbal dominance of males in classroom settings. Which perspective would address this issue?
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Interactionist
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__ perspective emphasizes that patterns of male dominance in cross sex conversations are a battleground in the struggle for sexual equalitty
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Interactionist
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In 2006, __ women served as state governors
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