Chapter 9

Question 1

Sex

Answer 1

the biological traits that societies use to categorize people, as either male or female

Question 2

Gender

Answer 2

cultural meaning attached to sex catergories

Question 3

Ann Oakley

Answer 3

british, one of the first to distinguish sex from gender

Question 4

Gender Role

Answer 4

behavious related to the sex we are assigned at birth

Question 5

Intersex

Answer 5

identifying as either male or female,

Question 6

transgender

Answer 6

lived identity does not confrom w/ the gender role associated w/ their assigned sex

Question 7

biological sex

Answer 7

male & female sex categories assigned at birth

Question 8

transsexual

Answer 8

desires to be the opposite sex

Question 9

Gender

Answer 9

refers to the roles & characteristics societ assigns men/women

Question 10

Cisgender

Answer 10

someone who feels affinity with the constructed sex category assigned at birth

Question 11

two-spirit people

Answer 11

those who identifiy with ones of the gender roles beyond male/female

Question 12

Essentialist feminism

Answer 12

men - competition/opposition to other

women - view world in terms of unity

Question 13

3 critisims of essetial. feminism

Answer 13

1. universalization - all women are alike
2. confuses natural instincts
3. encourages seein women as a lower

Question 14

liberal feminsim

Answer 14

seeks to secure equal rights for women in all phases of public life (equal pay)

Question 15

post-modern feminism

Answer 15

no natural base for indentities based on gender, ethnicity or race
opposes essentialism femisinsim

Question 16

Hegemonic Masculinity

Answer 16

practices that normalize & naturalize men’s dominance and womens subordination

Question 17

Subordinate Masculinity

Answer 17

practices that could threaten the legitimacy of hegemonic masculinity

Question 18

Marginalized Masculinity

Answer 18

adaptation of masculinities to issues such as race/class

Question 19

Complicit Masculinity

Answer 19

practices that do not embody Men above women but benefit from them

Question 20

homosexual

Answer 20

sexually attracted to same sex

Question 21

lesbian

Answer 21

sexually attracted to other women

Question 22

bisexual

Answer 22

sexually attracted to both sexes

Question 23

social stratification

Answer 23

describes a society as though it is divided into a series of layers

Question 24

strata

Answer 24

units of analysis in research where equal samples are drawn from each stratum of population

Question 25

quintile

Answer 25

segment, stratum representing each of the five different groups of population

Question 26

neoliberalism

Answer 26

dominat ideoplogy that views the individual as a more or less independent player on the sociological scene

Question 27

counter ideology

Answer 27

critiqu of a dominant ideology