Some people believe that women are better suited to be homemakers because they are naturally more caring and emotional than men. What perspective is being expressed in this statement?

Which of the following is an example of a microaggression?

What do functionalists generally believe to be true about gender?

What two complementary roles did the functionalist Talcott Parsons identify within the family?

According to conflict theory, why are women’s contributions to family life devalued?

The perspective in sociology that is concerned with how gender is constructed and maintained in our everyday lives is known as:

What is one of the ways that “Agnes,” a transgender woman who was born with male genitalia and raised as a boy before undergoing sex-reassignment treatment, managed to pass as female in public?

In the 1940s and 1950s, Alfred Kinsey surveyed Americans to find out about their sexual behavior. His findings were important because they:

From an interactionist perspective, what is the most important way that schools socialize children into their gender identities?

In her ethnography of high school boys titled Dude, You’re a Fag, sociologist C. J. Pascoe found that boys often use homophobic slurs toward each other in an effort to define masculinity for themselves and other boys. This is an example of:

Which of the following health disorders occurs more often in women than in men?

How do the incomes of single fathers compare with those of single mothers?

Laura Miller’s 1997 study of gender harassment in the military found that:

Women are more likely than men to live in poverty, a situation often referred to as:

The second-wave feminist movement was associated with the issue of:

In the opening pages of The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan wrote about a problem that “lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women.” What was this problem?

Why might LGBTQ rights groups be predisposed to believe that homosexuality has a genetic origin?

What was the first network television show to feature a lesbian lead character?

In 2012, according to United Nations estimates, what percentage of human trafficking victims were exploited as sex slaves?

What term was used by nineteenth-century explorers and missionaries to describe Native Americans who were neither male nor female but somehow both?

The Intersex Society of North America recommends that “surgeries done to make the genitals look ‘more normal’ should not be performed until a child is mature enough to make an informed decision for herself or himself.” Usually, doctors would always try to involve a patient in his or her treatment, so why is this advice necessary?

In The Mismeasure of Women, social psychologist Carol Tavris argues that there is nothing “universal and nonvarying . . . in the natures of men and women.” If you agree with her, you would have to reject the concept of:

Margaret Mead, an American anthropologist, spent much of her career documenting the ways in which other cultures had gender roles that differed, sometimes radically, from those of twentieth-century America. Why does this matter?

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, replacing a housewife with paid laborers would cost at least $100,000 per year. How could this be interpreted according to conflict theory?

The indie rock musician Antony Hegarty has always identified as transgender but has never taken medical steps to change her sex. During one tour, she performed a live cover of “Crazy in Love,” originally recorded by the pop superstar Beyoncé. At the end of one performance of the song, she laughed and said, “Who says I’m not a teenage girl?” Although she might have been joking, her words suggest that:

A little girl notices that whenever both of her parents are in the car, her father is always driving. From this she deduces that women should be passive and men should be active. This process is called:

In the vast majority of commercials that advertise cleaning supplies, a woman is shown using the product. This shows that:

In the past, bank tellers were overwhelmingly male, but today they are mostly female. What could explain this shift?

Which of the following folk sayings expresses the idea of the “second shift” as sociologist Arlie Hochschild described it?

In The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan wrote: Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night—she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question—“Is this all?” What larger social issue does this passage suggest Friedan was worried about?