Chapter 5-6

Question 1

Who coined the phrase: The sociological imagination?

Answer 1

Mills

Question 2

What is the social constructionist perspective of gender?

Answer 2

• Gender varies from culture to culture
• Defintions vary in anyone culture over time
• Gender varies over the course of one’s life
• Race, gender, class etc. impact gender

Question 3

Why do Kimmel and Holler agree that the social constructionist approach best represents gender?

Answer 3

It acknowledges difference and how power affects gender expression

Question 4

What factor plays a massive role in gender?

Answer 4

The institution

Question 5

Why is sex-role theory not effective when it comes to explaining gender?

Answer 5

Minimizes the importance of gender, dramatizes the gap between genders, does not incorporate change

Question 6

What do Kimmel and Holler believe about sex-role theory?

Answer 6

Used race and gender to blame the victims – victims internalize the values of an oppressive system

Question 7

What is Sambo’s Theory of Oppression?

Question 8

What do Kimmel and Holler believe about gender in relation to power?

Answer 8

That gender was about power and inequality

Question 9

What is power?

Answer 9

Power is a relationship, one which is given to others

Question 10

What does life course perspective believe?

Answer 10

Gender happens throughout our lives, sexual peaks and mid-life crisis

Question 11

What does the life course perspective believe about happiness?

Answer 11

That it is U-shaped

Question 12

What did Goffman believe about gender?

Answer 12

Why does our behavior change in the public sphere

Question 13

What is androcentrism?

Answer 13

Seeing the world through the eyes of a man

Question 14

How is gender impacted on a micro level?

Answer 14

Through symbolic interactionism

Question 15

Why is sex-role theory not effective when explaining gender?

Answer 15

It ignores the role of power

Question 16

Who wrote the second sex?

Answer 16

Beauvoir

Question 17

What did Beauvoir write?

Answer 17

“One is not born a woman, rather, one becomes a woman.”

Question 18

What did Beauvoir believe?

Answer 18

Believed that gender had very to do with sex itself, rather, it is dependent on the way we are socialized by society

Question 19

What did Kimmel and Holler believe about Wave 1 feminism?

Answer 19

Woman demanded recognition of their rights

Question 20

Many women who partook in Wave 1 feminism were essentialists, what is an essentialist?

Answer 20

Tend to portray women in a better light, believed that men and women were different when it came to behavior

Question 21

What impacted during Wave 2 feminism?

Answer 21

Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex”

Question 22

What was questioned during the Wave 2 feminism?

Answer 22

Whether men and women were really different

Question 23

What was Friedan’s ‘The feminine mystique?’

Answer 23

How privileged women live vicariously through their husbands and children

Question 24

What did Radical Feminists believe?

Answer 24

That the personal was political

Question 25

Which thinker was involved in the creation of The National Organization for Women? (NOW)

Answer 25

Friedan

Question 26

How did NOW impact feminism?

Answer 26

Drew up bills for abortion and for equal rights

Question 27

What are things NOW didn't include?

Answer 27

Lesbian rights, rights for women of colour

Question 28

What did Crenshaw believe about intersectionality?

Answer 28

That black women raced two forms of discrimination in racism and sexism

Question 29

What defined Wave 3 feminism?

Answer 29

Opposed the idea of a universal female subject -- impossible to create a form of feminism fit for all women

Question 30

What did Butler believe about gender?

Answer 30

That gender was performative, and this performance produces sexed bodies

Question 31

What are Chads and Stacys?

Answer 31

Chads are men who are successful with women while Stacys are people who reject incels

Question 32

How does society relate to queer theory?

Answer 32

Society constructs what 'gay' is and who is and isn't 'gay'

Question 33

Does society influence gender or sex?

Answer 33

Gender

Question 34

Who coined the phrases "Hegemonic masculinity" and "Emphasized femininity"?

Answer 34

Connell

Question 35

What is Hegemonic masculinity?

Answer 35

The dominant form of masculinity, whereas other forms are seen as inferior

Question 36

What is Emphasized femininity?

Answer 36

Compliance to gender inequality and accommodating men

Question 37

Why was Connell's work significant?

Answer 37

Led to acknowledgement that there were different ways of doing masculinity

Question 38

Why did Men's rights have an uneasy relationship with feminism?

Answer 38

They were both on polar ends of the spectrum

Question 39

Why was Goldberg so popular among frustrated men?

Answer 39

His words resonated with a group of men who were also frustrated by the way women treated them

Question 40

What are three themes which dominated men's rights movements?

Answer 40

All domestic violence allegations were false, joint custody should be lessened (same with child support), women were perpetrators of domestic abuse

Question 41

Which gender tends to get policed more?

Answer 41

Boys

Question 42

What did Hochschild say about housework and childcare?

Answer 42

Many women preform double shifts: one at work and one at home

Question 43

Who is more responsible for emotional work?

Answer 43

Women

Question 44

What was the negative impact of daycare on children?

Answer 44

There was no negative impacts on children

Question 45

What was the "tender years principle?"

Answer 45

Custody of the child was automatically given to the mother

Question 46

What happened to fathers who were involved with their kids after a divorce?

Answer 46

They were more likely to be absent later

Question 47

What did Wallerstein believe about divorce?

Answer 47

That divorce had adverse side effects on the child

Question 48

What kind of behaviours did children with same-sex parents exhibit?

Answer 48

Children were more gender egalitarian, and daughters were more assertive and confident

Question 49

Is divorce the cause of unhappiness?

Answer 49

No

Question 50

Who coined 'the second shift?'

Answer 50

Hochschild

Question 51

What is the other side of the 'feminization of poverty?'

Answer 51

masculinization of irresponsibility

Question 52

Historically, how did indigenous people's family structure differ from others?

Answer 52

It was egalitarian, and included extended families and clan structures

Question 53

What kind of family structure did Iroquois people have?

Answer 53

Matrilineal and matrilocal

Question 54

What was manhood?

Answer 54

A landowner, the head of a household, and someone who participates in community and political life

Question 55

What is the demographic transition?

Answer 55

High birthrates and mortality rates to slow birth and mortality rates

Question 56

What was accentuated during industrialization?

Answer 56

The strict division of labour in society

Question 57

What is LICO?

Answer 57

Low income cut-off

Question 58

How often do people get married in Canada?

Answer 58

Less than half of people get married, most are only common-law partners