Soc 324 - Sociology of Sex Gender » 2019 » Quiz 2

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Question #1
One of the major decisions trans adolescents have to make when thinking about starting cross-sex hormones is:
A.   their potential for future fertility.
B.   whether they want to move to another state.
C.   whether or not they will look beautiful for handsome.
D.   their future height.
Question #2
Adultification is the process whereby black children are:
A.   not charged for crimes as adults until they turn 21.
B.   allowed to join the military earlier than age 18.
C.   robbed of childhood innocence.
D.   allowed to work at a younger age than the law usually allows.
Question #3
In Phillip Goff’s experiment, he found that police officers in his study:
A.   underestimated the age of black boys by 4.5 years.
B.   overestimated the age of white boys by 4.5 years.
C.   overestimated the age of black boys by 4.5 years.
D.   had the same estimates for the ages of black and white boys.
Question #4
In their study, Epstein, Blake and Gonzalez theorize that the adultification of black girls potentially contributes to:
A.   more girls working full-time jobs during school.
B.   higher rates of teen pregnancy.
C.   more frequent use of contraception.
D.   interactions with the criminal justice system for minor infractions.
Question #5
Thin, white, straight cisgender femininity is considered:
A.   pariah femininity.
B.   subordinated femininity.
C.   contained femininity.
D.   hegemonic femininity.
Question #6
The model minority myth is harmful because:
A.   Asian women are excluded from the modeling industry.
B.   it ignores the meaningful differences between groups of Asian people in the United States.
C.   it is an example of reverse racism.
D.   it results in the exclusion of Asian children from mainstream schools.
Question #7
In Pyke and Johnson’s study, a group of Asian women in the study associated independence, assertiveness, and confidence with:
A.   White femininity.
B.   Korean femininity.
C.   Vietnamese femininity.
D.   African American femininity.
Question #8
Pyke and Johnson argued that one of the downsides of Asian women changing their gender presentations when they are with their family is that:
A.   they usually end up marrying outside their culture.
B.   Korean and Vietnamese men don’t know what their real personalities are like.
C.   it makes it seem like Asian cultures are unable to change.
D.   they identify end up identifying as White and not Korean or Vietnamese.
Question #9
Generally, women in Stone and Gorga’s study discriminated against lesbians by:
A.   stalking them.
B.   excluding them socially.
C.   physically fighting them.
D.   verbally attacking them.
Question #10
Although the other sororities in Stone and Gorga’s article had lesbian members, the Delta sorority was marked as the “lesbian sorority” because:
A.   they also included women from other "pariah" femininities
B.   heterosexual women were excluded from joining.
C.   of Title IX.
D.   the school forced them to take lesbian members following a discrimination lawsuit.
Question #11
 Two women dating in the same sorority was more acceptable in Stone and Gorga’s study if the women were:
A.   seen as "hot" to heterosexual men
B.   high achievers in school.
C.   part of a varsity sports team.
D.   part of a couple where one woman was butch and the other was femme.
Question #12
 According to the video “Tough Guise,” ____________ is the primary way boys and men establish masculine credibility.
A.   violence
B.   money
C.   education
D.   ethnicity
Question #13
Jackson Katz argues in “Tough Guise” that the media can get away with framing men’s violence as a problem with “youth” or “violence against women” because:
A.   women commit domestic violence against men at similar rates.
B.   dominant groups rarely get questioned.
C.   half of the school shootings in the US are perpetrated by girls.
D.   a gender neutral approach is more politically correct.
Question #14
According to Pascoe’s article, homophobic insults are central to _____________ among the high school boys in her study.
A.   masculinity
B.   education
C.   femininity
D.   sexuality

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