ch 12 age & gender discrimination

Question 1

prejudice/discrimination against the elderly; reflects uneasiness about growing old

Answer 1

ageism (Robert Butler)

Question 2

society/aging individual should mutually sever relationships

Answer 2

disengagement theory 
(functionalist - everything meets a need)

Question 3

emphasizes importance of passing on social roles to ensure social stability

Answer 3

disengagement theory
(functionalist - everything meets a need)

Question 4

aging person withdraws as approach of death forces them to drop most social roles

Answer 4

disengagement theory
(functionalist - everything meets a need)

Question 5

society withdraws from elderly placing them in retirement homes

Answer 5

disengagement theory 
(functionalist - everything meets a need)

Question 6

implies society should help elderly withdraw from social roles so society can function

Answer 6

disengagement theory
(functionalist - everything meets a need)

Question 7

elderly who remain ACTIVE will be most well-adjusted

Answer 7

activity theory 
(interactionist)

Question 8

believe elderly have need for social interaction

Answer 8

activity theory
(interactionist)

Question 9

see withdrawal as harmful for both elderly and society

Answer 9

activity theory
(interactionist)

Question 10

focus on contributions of elderly to maintain society

Answer 10

activity theory
(interactionist)

Question 11

disagrees with both activity and disengagement theory

Answer 11

conflict theory of age

Question 12

other perspectives ignore impact of social class in lives of elderly

Answer 12

conflict theory of age

Question 13

privileged position of upper class provides better opportunity and less dependency in old age

Answer 13

conflict theory of age

Question 14

low status of elderly seen in prejudice and discrimination against them

Answer 14

conflict theory of age

Question 15

in the U.S. women earn $0.81 for every $1.00 a man earns for full time jobs

Answer 15

gender stratification

Question 16

women work a full day at a job, then do most of the domestic chores when they get home

Answer 16

second shift

Arlie Hochschild

Question 17

relationship of the number of men to women

Answer 17

sex ratio

Question 18

usually expressed as a ratio of the number of men per 100 women ex. 107 men to 100 women or 1.07 sex ratio

Answer 18

sex ratio

Question 19

-geographic mobility
-female infanticide
-health and diet
-differential life expectancy (women live longer than men)
are all causes of…

Answer 19

sex ratios

Question 20

study Guttentag & Secord Theory

Answer 20

now

Question 21

______ is equal to their inability to achieve their goals outside of the relationship

Answer 21

the power dependency of a person

Question 22

capacity of each member of a dyad to impose their will on the other; supply-demand power

Answer 22

dyadic power

Question 23

the gender with excess supply will be more dependent on the scarce gender

Answer 23

dyadic power

Question 24

the dependent members of the dyad seek to improve their bargaining position

Answer 24

structural power

Question 25

try to shape social structures to serve their own interests

Answer 25

structural power

Question 26

gender with greater numbers will try to utilize structural power to offset their disadvantages of dyadic power

Answer 26

structural power

Question 27

brides should be virgins

Answer 27

more men

Question 28

wives must be faithful

Answer 28

more men

Question 29

women should devote themselves to being a wife and mother

Answer 29

more men

Question 30

women defined as unsuited for positions of power and authority

Answer 30

more men

Question 31

these norms are socialized from birth and internalized by both genders

Answer 31

more men

Question 32

usually begin from long history of excess males, a male biased society

Answer 32

fewer men (low sex ratio)

Question 33

generates "sexual revolution" for women (structural power)

Answer 33

fewer men (low sex ratio)

Question 34

organize into women's movement

Answer 34

fewer men (low sex ratio)

Question 35

less gender inequality

Answer 35

fewer men (low sex ratio)

Question 36

girls and boys given similiar education

Answer 36

fewer men (low sex ratio)

Question 37

men reluctant to marry, premarital sex increases (dyadic power)

Answer 37

fewer men (low sex ratio)

Question 38

marriage unstable

Answer 38

fewer men (low sex ratio)

Question 39

liberal values

Answer 39

fewer men (low sex ratio)

Question 40

women are more into the workplace

Answer 40

fewer men (low sex ratio)

Question 41

women are slender

Answer 41

fewer men (low sex ratio)

Question 42

women lack power, rights

Answer 42

more men (high sex ratio)

Question 43

women are seen as property, highly prized and romanticized

Answer 43

more men (high sex ratio)

Question 44

women isolated by protective sexual norms

Answer 44

more men (high sex ratio)

Question 45

sexual "double standard" (greater approval of extramarital sex for men)

Answer 45

more men (high sex ratio)

Question 46

highly visible presence of "disreputable" roles (prostitutes)

Answer 46

more men (high sex ratio)

Question 47

marriage stable, revered (structural power)

Answer 47

more men (high sex ratio)

Question 48

conservative values

Answer 48

more men (high sex ratio)

Question 49

women stay home (structural power)

Answer 49

more men (high sex ratio)

Question 50

men grow more facial hair

Answer 50

more men (high sex ratio)

Question 51

women are curvaceous ex. Kim K

Answer 51

more men (high sex ratio)

Question 52

are there more men or women in society today?

Answer 52

more men (high sex ratio)