Chapter 6 Practice Quiz

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. What is gender?

A social concept divided into the main categories of male or female correct incorrect

A biological identity referring to social patterns we associate with male and female correct incorrect

A biological identity divided into the main categories of male or female correct incorrect

A social concept referring to the social patterns we associate with male and female correct incorrect

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. Who is an intersex individual?

An individual born with both male and female sexual organs correct incorrect

An individual born between two different sets of parents correct incorrect

An individual born with an intermittent sexuality correct incorrect

An individual born with no sexual organs correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is true according to Messner's theory about the costs of masculinity?

Masculinity is defined by internal success and satisfaction. correct incorrect

Men are expected to show little emotion and to be aggressive. correct incorrect

Men are encouraged to explore a broad range of interests and art forms. correct incorrect

Men who work as a nurse or daycare provider have their masculinity affirmed. correct incorrect

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Who wrote the ground-breaking work Gender Trouble?

Arlie Hochschild correct incorrect

Mary Weber correct incorrect

Karl Marx correct incorrect

Judith Butler correct incorrect

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. What is Hochschild's term for explaining how women in dual-earner households do most of the housework known as?

The feminization of poverty correct incorrect

Gendered double standards correct incorrect

Double shift correct incorrect

Second shift correct incorrect

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. Which of the following occurs when a particular job, professional, or industry becomes dominated by or predominantly associated with women?

Gender equality correct incorrect

Sex ratio correct incorrect

Feminization correct incorrect

Equal division of labour correct incorrect

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. Third-wave feminism is predominantly concerned with which of the following?

Reproductive rights correct incorrect

Economic rights correct incorrect

The cultural arena correct incorrect

Political rights correct incorrect

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. Which term refers to the study of how various dimensions of inequality can combine?

Diverse inequality correct incorrect

Combined discrimination correct incorrect

Additive disadvantage correct incorrect

Intersectionality correct incorrect

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. Which term refers to a set of negative attitudes and beliefs about individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning?

Discrimination correct incorrect

Sexual labeling correct incorrect

Homophobia correct incorrect

Heteronormativity correct incorrect

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. Which term refers to social institutions, practices, and norms that support an automatic assumption that other people are or should be heterosexual?

Discrimination correct incorrect

Sexual labeling correct incorrect

Homophobia correct incorrect

Heteronormativity correct incorrect

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. While sex and race are rooted in perceived biological differences, gender and ethnicity are rooted in social and cultural constructions and distinctions.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Gender exists along a continuum of masculinity and femininity.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Sex-based differences do not explain gender-based social disparities, such as that in income.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. It is illegal in Canada to choose not to identify with a particular sex or choose to raise children with such an identity.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Learning, understanding, and viewing one another as male and female are social processes.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. The double shift explains how men work outside the home for a wage and inside the home doing unpaid care work.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Research shows that having more women in government can be important for the types of policies put forward and for the general perceptions of women's role in society.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Feminist theory focuses on how gender inequality comes about in society and how men's and women's gender roles are created and recreated in society.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Intersexuality refers to the study of how various dimensions of inequality can combine.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Only women can be feminists.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect