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Ch. 3 " Gender Development: The Socialization process"
Concepts:
Cognitive identity theory, gender identity, androgyny, self, stereotype, social control,
gender socialization, agents of socialization, gender identity, subcultures
Questions:
I. Which social factors impact gender socialization?
culture, social class race

2. Regardless of race, among which group: African Americans, Latino subcultures, White
Americans, or Middle-class, female gender roles tend to be more deferential and
subordinate?
latino subcultures

3. Which theory of socialization asserts that once children learn gender identity, they
make choices based on that identity?
cognitive theory

4. On what is socialization into gender roles based, according to social learning
perspective?
reward and punishment
modeling and intimidation
differential reinforcement

5. What is the most significant agent of socialization?
family

6. Which gender characteristics are toys reinforcing?
girls- stress concern of appearance
boy toys- encourage physical activity and competativeness

7. Is mother or father more likely emotionally supportive?
Mother

8. T/F Son preference in some Asian countries is associated with neglect of female
infants and girls, higher rates of abortion of female fetuses than
male, and female infanticide.
True

9. Who pioneered gender research in the area of androgyny?
Sandra Bem


Sociology of. Gender Roles
Soc-341
Study Guide
Ch.1 "The Sociology of Gender: Theoretical perspectives and Feminist Framework"
Concepts:
Status, status set, ascribed status, achieved status, roles, expressive and instrumental
roles, norms, patriarchy, anomie, stereotype, androcentrism, sex, gender, sexual
orientation, social construction of reality, sexism, theory, theoretical paradigms:
functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, and feminist theory
Questions:
1. T/F Contemporary conflict theory was developed in response to critiques that social
change does not have to include a revolution .
True

2. T/F The idea that men as a group conspire to keep women in subordinate positions is a
critique associated with structural functional theory?
True

3. Who is the father of conflict theory?
Karl Marx

4. Which theory explains that social interaction is a dynamic process in which people
continually modify their behavior based on their perceptions?
symbolic interactionalism

5. Which theory can be categorized as a feminist?
Theory that used to challenge status quote that is disadvantage to women

6. In what way is the feminist perspective compatible with conflict theory?
both perspectives agree that biological constraints are the main reason for female
subordination

7. What are the different branches of Feminism?
liberal,cultural, socialist, radical, contemporary radical feminism

8. Which feminist perspective based on the professional and middle-class women ?
liberal feminism

9. Which branch of Feminism emphasizes a need for the elimination of capitalism to end
the oppression of women?
socialist feminism

10.Which branch of feminism have emerged during the civil rights and anti-Vietnam
War movements?
radical feminism

11.T/F Jokes about the appearance and sexuality of feminists are an example of a
backlash to feminism.
TRUE


Ch. 2 "Gender Development: Biology, Sexuality, and Health"
Concepts:
Essentialism, transsexuals, transgendered, anorexia nervosa, heterosexual, double
standard, hermaphrodite, intersexed, morbidity rate, mortality rate, sexual dimorphism,
sexual scripts, sociobiology
Questions:
1. How is masculinity and femininity determined according to Margaret Mead research?
its cultural rather than biological

2. T/F The XX chromosomal configuration is associated with a superior immune system
for females.
True
3. When is an infant-father bonding measures as high as mother-infant bonding?
within the first week of the birth through repeated exposure to the infant

4. Since when did the rate of sexual activity among teens significantly start to decline?
1990s

5. Which country has th...


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