Soc 324 - Sociology of Sex and Gender 2 » 2019 » Quiz 4

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Question #1
Risman (2004) argues that individuals and institutions have a “recursive relationship” meaning:
A.   individuals do not have the ability to affect institutions.
B.   institutions and individuals shape each other.
C.   institutions do not have the ability to affect individuals.
D.   individuals must destroy institutions to change them.
Question #2
The age of first marriage for men and women in the United States has been _______________ over the last 50 years.
A.   steadily decreasing.
B.   steadily increasing.
C.   decreasing for men.
D.   decreasing for women.
Question #3
In the years before the Industrial Revolution in the US, men chose their marriage partners based on:
A.   how long they have lived in the United States.
B.   what they could bring to help sustain their family business or farm.
C.   sexual attraction.
D.   love.
Question #4
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.   child and slave labor.
C.   generous maternity leave policies.
D.   government investment in the expansion of the suburbs.
Question #5
According to Coontz (2016), the “traditional” marriage of the female homemaker and male breadwinner:
A.   is the norm across all cultures.
B.   was only the norm for a very short period of time in recent history.
C.   has been the norm since marriage was invented in the 1600s.
D.   is scientifically proven to be the best way to raise children.
Question #6
Hartley (2017) describes the everyday tasks of managing a household as:
A.   emotional labor.
B.   easy labor.
C.   wifely labor.
D.   patriarchal labor.
Question #7
One of the ways that Trystan works to expand the representations of the experiences of trans people is that he talks openly about:
A.   never feeling like he was in the “wrong body”.
B.   how pregnancy made him hate his body.
C.   wanting to be able to afford surgery.
D.   hating his body since he was a child.
Question #8
Heteronormativity refers to the set of ideas, norms, and practices that support:
A.   alternative forms of intimacy in marriage.
B.   heterosexuality and gender differentiation as the norm for sexual and family relationships.
C.   non-monogamous marriage and alternative family formation.
D.   homosexuality as the most common form of sexual and family relationships.
Question #9
According to the lesbian women in Nordqvist’s (2015) study, ______________ was the main reason they were able to re-establish a positive relationship with their parents who had negative reactions to them coming out.
A.   their partner having a baby
B.   getting legally married
C.   getting pregnant
D.   breaking up with their female partners
Question #10
Many of the grandparents in Nordqvist's study felt a connection to their grandchildren primarily because: 
A.   they were getting older and wiser.
B.   they were learning to be less homophobic.
C.   their daughter was the one who carried the baby and gave birth.
D.   they loved children in general.
Question #11
One of the justifications for California’s sterilization program in the 1960s was:
A.   to increase diversity in the state’s population.
B.   to decrease the white population.
C.   Nazi ideology.
D.   population control.
Question #12
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 women who were sterilized received a large cash settlement.
D.   the firing of the doctors who pushed sterilization on Mexican women.
Question #13
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 could not afford other types of birth control.
C.   she was afraid to tell her husband.
D.   other forms of birth control did not work for her.
Question #14
In terms of religious affiliation in the United States, men are more likely to identify as ___________ than women.
A.   Christian
B.   Buddhist
C.   Jewish
D.   Atheists
Question #15
The largest average gender gap in religiosity among Christians in the Pew Research Center study is for:
A.   rates of daily prayer.
B.   belief in hell.
C.   belief in heaven.
D.   rates of weekly church attendance.
Question #16
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 #17
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.   going to Haiti on mission trips.
B.   bringing Christianity to secular spaces .
C.   giving all their money to the church.
D.   becoming ordained pastors.
Question #18
The Christian men in the McDowell’s (2017) study “love on” non-believers primarily by:
A.   making friends with them at hardcore punk shows.
B.   tricking them into getting baptized.
C.   bringing them to their church service on Sundays.
D.   including male and female pastors.
Question #19
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 are forced to if they want to practice Islam.
D.   they don’t feel pressure to look a certain way.
Question #20
Many of the younger Muslim women in Droogsma’s (2007) article see the hijab as a conscious resistance to:  
A.   the male gaze.
B.   Christianity.
C.   feminism.
D.   their families.

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