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Who coined the phrase: The sociological imagination?

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Mills

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What is the social constructionist perspective of gender?

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

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It acknowledges difference and how power affects gender expression

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What factor plays a massive role in gender?

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The institution

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

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

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

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

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What is Sambo’s Theory of Oppression?

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

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That gender was about power and inequality

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What is power?

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Power is a relationship, one which is given to others

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What does life course perspective believe?

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

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What does the life course perspective believe about happiness?

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That it is U-shaped

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What did Goffman believe about gender?

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Why does our behavior change in the public sphere

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What is androcentrism?

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Seeing the world through the eyes of a man

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14
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How is gender impacted on a micro level?

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Through symbolic interactionism

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

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It ignores the role of power

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Who wrote the second sex?

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Beauvoir

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What did Beauvoir write?

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

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What did Beauvoir believe?

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

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What did Kimmel and Holler believe about Wave 1 feminism?

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Woman demanded recognition of their rights

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

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

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What impacted during Wave 2 feminism?

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Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex”

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What was questioned during the Wave 2 feminism?

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Whether men and women were really different

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What was Friedan’s ‘The feminine mystique?’

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How privileged women live vicariously through their husbands and children

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What did Radical Feminists believe?

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That the personal was political

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

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Friedan

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How did NOW impact feminism?

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Drew up bills for abortion and for equal rights

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What are things NOW didn’t include?

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Lesbian rights, rights for women of colour

28
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What did Crenshaw believe about intersectionality?

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

29
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What defined Wave 3 feminism?

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

30
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What did Butler believe about gender?

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That gender was performative, and this performance produces sexed bodies

31
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What are Chads and Stacys?

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

32
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How does society relate to queer theory?

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Society constructs what ‘gay’ is and who is and isn’t ‘gay’

33
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Does society influence gender or sex?

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Gender

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Who coined the phrases “Hegemonic masculinity” and “Emphasized femininity”?

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Connell

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What is Hegemonic masculinity?

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

36
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What is Emphasized femininity?

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Compliance to gender inequality and accommodating men

37
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Why was Connell’s work significant?

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Led to acknowledgement that there were different ways of doing masculinity

38
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Why did Men’s rights have an uneasy relationship with feminism?

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They were both on polar ends of the spectrum

39
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Why was Goldberg so popular among frustrated men?

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

40
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What are three themes which dominated men’s rights movements?

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

41
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Which gender tends to get policed more?

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Boys

42
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What did Hochschild say about housework and childcare?

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

43
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Who is more responsible for emotional work?

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Women

44
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What was the negative impact of daycare on children?

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There was no negative impacts on children

45
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What was the “tender years principle?”

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Custody of the child was automatically given to the mother

46
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What happened to fathers who were involved with their kids after a divorce?

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They were more likely to be absent later

47
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What did Wallerstein believe about divorce?

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That divorce had adverse side effects on the child

48
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What kind of behaviours did children with same-sex parents exhibit?

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

49
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Is divorce the cause of unhappiness?

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No

50
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Who coined ‘the second shift?’

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Hochschild

51
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What is the other side of the ‘feminization of poverty?’

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masculinization of irresponsibility

52
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Historically, how did indigenous people’s family structure differ from others?

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It was egalitarian, and included extended families and clan structures

53
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What kind of family structure did Iroquois people have?

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Matrilineal and matrilocal

54
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What was manhood?

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

55
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What is the demographic transition?

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High birthrates and mortality rates to slow birth and mortality rates

56
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What was accentuated during industrialization?

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The strict division of labour in society

57
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What is LICO?

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Low income cut-off

58
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How often do people get married in Canada?

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

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