Sociology In Our Times 6th Edition By Diana Kendall – Test Bank

Chapter 11–Gender

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Young men and women are influenced by societal scripts that impose accepted parameters of being male or female. In other words, they live what kind of lives?
a. heterosexual lives
b. sexed lives
c. gendered lives
d. homosexual lives

ANS: C
MSC:

PTS: 1 REF: page 305 BLM: Remember

2. Who is disadvantaged by gender inequality?
a. girls
b. men
c. women
d. men and women

ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: page 305 BLM: Remember

3. Doug works out every day. He wears only muscle T-shirts and routinely can be seen drinking protein shakes. To a sociologist, what does Doug’s behaviour illustrate?
a. acting against the norms
b. obsession with fitness
c. doing gender
d. sexed lives

ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: page 329 BLM: Higher Order

4. Which statement accurately reflects women’s role with respect to work in and outside the home today?
a. Women’s employment status dramatically reduces their participation in domestic work.
b. Men’s participation in domestic work has enabled most women to spend more time working outside the home
c. Women and men equitably share domestic work, regardless of women’s employment status.
d. Regardless of their employment status, women continue to do the majority of unpaid domestic work.

ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: page 312 BLM: Remember

5. What term do sociologists use to refer to the biological and anatomical differences between females and males?
a. sex
b. gender
c. primary distinctions
d. secondary distinctions

ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: page 306 BLM: Remember

6. At birth, how are male and female infants distinguished?
a. gonads and fallopian tubes
b. primary sex characteristics
c. secondary sex characteristics
d. biological tendencies

ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: page 312 BLM: Remember

7. Amber believes that she was born with the body of a male. What term would a sociologist use to describe Amber?
a. hermaphrodite
b. transsexual
c. transvestite
d. homosexual

ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: page 329 BLM: Higher Order

8. What sociological concept defines the culturally and socially constructed differences between females and males?
a. gender
b. sex
c. primary sexual identifier
d. sexual identity

ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: page 306 BLM: Remember

9. People continually distinguish between males and females and evaluate them differentially. This best demonstrates the social importance of which of the following?
a. sex
b. gender
c. sex typing
d. culture

ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: page 306 BLM: Remember

10. Males are strong, dominant, independent, and invulnerable. What is this statement an example of?
a. sexual identity
b. gender identity
c. gender role
d. sex typing

ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: page 306 BLM: Higher Order