Soc 324 - Sociology of Sex and Gender 2 » Summer 2020 » Quiz 4

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Question #1
A structural theory of human behavior argues that:
A.   people do not actually have individual-choice
B.   institutions shape people and people shape institutions.
C.   people are powerless to change institutions.
D.   all institutions are gender-neutral.
Question #2
The fact that there are no truancy laws for college students is an example of what structural characteristic of higher education?
A.   constituted by individuals
B.   distinct norms and practices
C.   subject to change
D.   internalized as identities and selves
Question #3
Risman (2004) argues that individuals and institutions have a “recursive relationship” meaning:
A.   individuals do not have the ability to affect institutions.
B.   institutions do not have the ability to affect individuals.
C.   institutions and individuals shape each other.
D.   individuals must destroy institutions to change them.
Question #4
The age of first marriage for men and women in the United States has been _______________ over the last 50 years.
A.   decreasing for men.
B.   steadily increasing.
C.   steadily decreasing.
D.   decreasing for women.
Question #5
Coontz argues that middle-class American women were able to spend more time raising their children during the mid-1800s due in large part to:
A.   women being forced out of their jobs when men returned home from war.
B.   generous maternity leave policies.
C.   child and slave labor.
D.   government investment in the expansion of the suburbs.
Question #6
According to data from CDC, _____________ are the least likely to be married when compared to men and women of other racial and ethnic groups.
A.   Hispanic women
B.   Black women
C.   Black men
D.   white men
Question #7
According to Coontz (2016), the “traditional” marriage of the female homemaker and male breadwinner:
A.   has been the norm since marriage was invented in the 1600s.
B.   is the norm across all cultures.
C.   was only the norm for a very short period of time in recent history.
D.   is scientifically proven to be the best way to raise children.
Question #8
According to recent data, heterosexual women in the US currently spend about _____________ hours of housework compared to their male partners.
A.   two times fewer
B.   the same amount of
C.   five times more
D.   two times more
Question #9
_____________ spend the least amount of time on childcare per day.
A.   Gay fathers
B.   Straight fathers
C.   Lesbian mothers
D.   Working mothers
Question #10
Hartley (2017) describes the everyday tasks of managing a household as:
A.   patriarchal labor.
B.   wifely labor.
C.   emotional labor.
D.   easy labor.
Question #11
Heteronormativity refers to the set of ideas, norms, and practices that support:
A.   alternative forms of intimacy in marriage.
B.   non-monogamous marriage and alternative family formation.
C.   heterosexuality and gender differentiation as the norm for sexual and family relationships.
D.   homosexuality as the most common form of sexual and family relationships.
Question #12
One of the ways that Trystan from the Accidental Gay Parents podcast works to expand the representations of the experiences of trans people is that he talks openly about:
A.   how pregnancy made him hate his body.
B.   hating his body since he was a child.
C.   wanting to be able to afford surgery.
D.   never feeling like he was in the “wrong body”.
Question #13
The case of Buck v. Bell _______________ in the United States.
A.   legalized voluntary sterilization
B.   legalized involuntary sterilization
C.   made it illegal to sterilize people without their consent.
D.   made it illegal to sterilize people during childbirth.
Question #14
One of the justifications for California’s sterilization program in the 1960s was:
A.   Nazi ideology.
B.   to decrease the white population.
C.   population control.
D.   to increase diversity in the state’s population.
Question #15
One of the most important outcomes of the Madrigal v Quilligan case was:
A.   the requirement that consent forms for sterilization be offered in multiple languages.
B.   the women who were sterilized received a large cash settlement.
C.   jail time for the doctors who pushed sterilization on Mexican women.
D.   the firing of the doctors who pushed sterilization on Mexican women.
Question #16
Chicana women redefined the reproductive rights movement to include the right to:
A.   abortion.
B.   sterilization.
C.   choose the size of your family.
D.   contraception.
Question #17
In her article, Mattoni (2017) wanted to get her tubes tied because she did not want to have children and:
A.   her husband was forcing her to.
B.   she was afraid to tell her husband.
C.   other forms of birth control did not work for her.
D.   she could not afford other types of birth control.
Question #18
In terms of religious affiliation in the United States, men are more likely to identify as ___________ than women.
A.   Buddhist
B.   Atheists
C.   Christian
D.   Jewish
Question #19
The largest average gender gap in religiosity among Christians in the Pew Research Center study is for:
A.   rates of weekly church attendance.
B.   belief in heaven
C.   belief in hell.
D.   rates of daily prayer.
Question #20
When looking at the rates of religiosity in developed nations, ___________has the largest gender gaps.
A.   France
B.   the U.K.
C.   Germany
D.   the United States
Question #21
The Christian Hardcore men in McDowell’s (2017) study argue that they are doing the grueling work that “Sunday Christians” aren’t willing to do by:
A.   bringing Christianity to secular spaces .
B.   giving all their money to the church.
C.   becoming ordained pastors.
D.   going to Haiti on mission trips.
Question #22
The Christian men in the McDowell’s (2017) study “love on” non-believers primarily by:
A.   including male and female pastors.
B.   bringing them to their church service on Sundays.
C.   tricking them into getting baptized.
D.   making friends with them at hardcore punk shows.
Question #23
The Muslim women in Droogsma’s (2007) article talked about all the following reasons they wear the veil EXCEPT:
A.   it connects them with other Muslim women
B.   it commands respect from men.
C.   they don’t feel pressure to look a certain way.
D.   they are forced to if they want to practice Islam.
Question #24
Many of the younger Muslim women in Droogsma’s (2007) article see the hijab as a conscious resistance to:
A.   their families.
B.   feminism.
C.   Christianity.
D.   the male gaze.

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