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 are powerless to change institutions.
B.   institutions shape people and people shape institutions.
C.   people do not actually have individual-choice
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.   distinct norms and practices
B.   internalized as identities and selves
C.   constituted by individuals
D.   subject to change
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.   individuals must destroy institutions to change them.
D.   institutions and individuals shape each other.
Question #4
The age of first marriage for men and women in the United States has been _______________ over the last 50 years.
A.   steadily decreasing.
B.   decreasing for men.
C.   decreasing for women.
D.   steadily increasing.
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.   generous maternity leave policies.
B.   government investment in the expansion of the suburbs.
C.   child and slave labor.
D.   women being forced out of their jobs when men returned home from war.
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.   Black women
B.   white men
C.   Hispanic women
D.   Black men
Question #7
According to Coontz (2016), the “traditional” marriage of the female homemaker and male breadwinner:
A.   is scientifically proven to be the best way to raise children.
B.   has been the norm since marriage was invented in the 1600s.
C.   is the norm across all cultures.
D.   was only the norm for a very short period of time in recent history.
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 more
B.   five times more
C.   the same amount of
D.   two times fewer
Question #9
_____________ spend the least amount of time on childcare per day.
A.   Lesbian mothers
B.   Working mothers
C.   Gay fathers
D.   Straight fathers
Question #10
Hartley (2017) describes the everyday tasks of managing a household as:
A.   wifely labor.
B.   emotional labor.
C.   patriarchal labor.
D.   easy labor.
Question #11
Heteronormativity refers to the set of ideas, norms, and practices that support:
A.   heterosexuality and gender differentiation as the norm for sexual and family relationships.
B.   homosexuality as the most common form of sexual and family relationships.
C.   non-monogamous marriage and alternative family formation.
D.   alternative forms of intimacy in marriage.
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.   hating his body since he was a child.
B.   how pregnancy made him hate his body.
C.   never feeling like he was in the “wrong body”.
D.   wanting to be able to afford surgery.
Question #13
The case of Buck v. Bell _______________ in the United States.
A.   made it illegal to sterilize people without their consent.
B.   legalized involuntary sterilization
C.   made it illegal to sterilize people during childbirth.
D.   legalized voluntary sterilization
Question #14
One of the justifications for California’s sterilization program in the 1960s was:
A.   to increase diversity in the state’s population.
B.   population control.
C.   to decrease the white population.
D.   Nazi ideology.
Question #15
One of the most important outcomes of the Madrigal v Quilligan case was:
A.   jail time for the doctors who pushed sterilization on Mexican women.
B.   the requirement that consent forms for sterilization be offered in multiple languages.
C.   the firing of the doctors who pushed sterilization on Mexican women.
D.   the women who were sterilized received a large cash settlement.
Question #16
Chicana women redefined the reproductive rights movement to include the right to:
A.   choose the size of your family.
B.   abortion.
C.   sterilization.
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.   she was afraid to tell her husband.
B.   she could not afford other types of birth control.
C.   her husband was forcing her to.
D.   other forms of birth control did not work for her.
Question #18
In terms of religious affiliation in the United States, men are more likely to identify as ___________ than women.
A.   Christian
B.   Jewish
C.   Buddhist
D.   Atheists
Question #19
The largest average gender gap in religiosity among Christians in the Pew Research Center study is for:
A.   belief in hell.
B.   rates of weekly church attendance.
C.   rates of daily prayer.
D.   belief in heaven
Question #20
When looking at the rates of religiosity in developed nations, ___________has the largest gender gaps.
A.   the U.K.
B.   France
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.   becoming ordained pastors.
B.   going to Haiti on mission trips.
C.   giving all their money to the church.
D.   bringing Christianity to secular spaces .
Question #22
The Christian men in the McDowell’s (2017) study “love on” non-believers primarily by:
A.   bringing them to their church service on Sundays.
B.   tricking them into getting baptized.
C.   including male and female pastors.
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 commands respect from men.
B.   they don’t feel pressure to look a certain way.
C.   it connects them with other Muslim women
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.   the male gaze.
C.   feminism.
D.   Christianity.

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