Chapter 3

Question 1

Feminist Theory

Answer 1

a theory that analyzes the status of women and men in society to use that knowledge to better women’s lives.

Question 2

Sexual orientation

Answer 2

refers to an individual’s pattern of physical and emotional arousal toward another person.

Question 3

Sexual behavior

Answer 3

sexual contacts or actions

Question 4

Sexual identity

Answer 4

the way people present their sexual preferences

Question 5

Ethnocentrism

Answer 5

an orientation that holds ones own culture, ethnic, or racial group as superior to others

Question 6

Stratification

Answer 6

structured inequality of entire categories of people who have unequal access to social rewards

Question 7

Pluralism

Answer 7

a society in which diverse members maintain their traditions while cooperatively working together and seeing other’s traits as valuable.

Question 8

Gender identity

Answer 8

usually conforms to anatomic sex in both heterosexual and homosexual individuals

Question 9

Gender fluidity

Answer 9

when gender expression shifts between masculine and feminine