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.   individuals must destroy institutions to change them.
D.   institutions do not have the ability to affect individuals.
Question #2
The age of first marriage for men and women in the United States has been _______________ over the last 50 years.
A.   decreasing for women.
B.   steadily increasing.
C.   decreasing for men.
D.   steadily decreasing.
Question #3
In the years before the Industrial Revolution in the US, men chose their marriage partners based on:
A.   what they could bring to help sustain their family business or farm.
B.   love.
C.   sexual attraction.
D.   how long they have lived in the United States.
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.   child and slave labor.
B.   generous maternity leave policies.
C.   women being forced out of their jobs when men returned home from war.
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.   was only the norm for a very short period of time in recent history.
B.   is the norm across all cultures.
C.   is scientifically proven to be the best way to raise children.
D.   has been the norm since marriage was invented in the 1600s.
Question #6
Hartley (2017) describes the everyday tasks of managing a household as:
A.   easy labor.
B.   wifely labor.
C.   patriarchal labor.
D.   emotional 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.   wanting to be able to afford surgery.
B.   hating his body since he was a child.
C.   how pregnancy made him hate his body.
D.   never feeling like he was in the “wrong body”.
Question #8
Heteronormativity refers to the set of ideas, norms, and practices that support:
A.   homosexuality as the most common form of sexual and family relationships.
B.   alternative forms of intimacy in marriage.
C.   heterosexuality and gender differentiation as the norm for sexual and family relationships.
D.   non-monogamous marriage and alternative family formation.
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.   getting pregnant
B.   their partner having a baby
C.   getting legally married
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 loved children in general.
C.   their daughter was the one who carried the baby and gave birth.
D.   they were learning to be less homophobic.
Question #11
One of the justifications for California’s sterilization program in the 1960s was:
A.   population control.
B.   Nazi ideology.
C.   to increase diversity in the state’s population.
D.   to decrease the white population.
Question #12
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 #13
In her article, Mattoni (2017) wanted to get her tubes tied because she did not want to have children and:
A.   she could not afford other types of birth control.
B.   her husband was forcing her to.
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.   Jewish
C.   Buddhist
D.   Atheists
Question #15
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.   belief in heaven.
D.   rates of daily prayer.
Question #16
When looking at the rates of religiosity in developed nations, ___________has the largest gender gaps.  
A.   the U.K.
B.   the United States
C.   France
D.   Germany
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.   bringing Christianity to secular spaces .
B.   going to Haiti on mission trips.
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.   including male and female pastors.
C.   tricking them into getting baptized.
D.   bringing them to their church service on Sundays.
Question #19
The Muslim women in Droogsma’s (2007) article talked about all the following reasons they wear the veil EXCEPT:
A.   they are forced to if they want to practice Islam.
B.   it commands respect from men.
C.   it connects them with other Muslim women.
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.   their families.
B.   feminism.
C.   Christianity.
D.   the male gaze.

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