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.   whether they want to move to another state.
B.   their future height.
C.   whether or not they will look beautiful for handsome.
D.   their potential for future fertility.
Question #2
Adultification is the process whereby black children are:
A.   allowed to work at a younger age than the law usually allows.
B.   robbed of childhood innocence.
C.   not charged for crimes as adults until they turn 21.
D.   allowed to join the military earlier than age 18.
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.   more frequent use of contraception.
C.   higher rates of teen pregnancy.
D.   interactions with the criminal justice system for minor infractions.
Question #5
Thin, white, straight cisgender femininity is considered:
A.   pariah femininity.
B.   hegemonic femininity.
C.   contained femininity.
D.   subordinated femininity.
Question #6
The model minority myth is harmful because:
A.   Asian women are excluded from the modeling industry.
B.   it is an example of reverse racism.
C.   it ignores the meaningful differences between groups of Asian people in the United States.
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.   African American femininity.
B.   Vietnamese femininity.
C.   White femininity.
D.   Korean 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.   it makes it seem like Asian cultures are unable to change.
C.   Korean and Vietnamese men don’t know what their real personalities are like.
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.   excluding them socially.
B.   stalking them.
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.   the school forced them to take lesbian members following a discrimination lawsuit.
B.   they also included women from other "pariah" femininities
C.   heterosexual women were excluded from joining.
D.   of Title IX.
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.   part of a varsity sports team.
C.   high achievers in school.
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.   ethnicity
B.   education
C.   violence
D.   money
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.   a gender neutral approach is more politically correct.
C.   half of the school shootings in the US are perpetrated by girls.
D.   dominant groups rarely get questioned.
Question #14
According to Pascoe’s article, homophobic insults are central to _____________ among the high school boys in her study.
A.   sexuality
B.   education
C.   masculinity
D.   femininity

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