Midterm Study Guide 1

Question 0

Patterns of gender

Answer 0

~socially constructing gender
Ex. Media, expectations to follow
~Patterns:regularities in the way the world works
~gaining a deeper understanding of the world

Question 1

Gender Socialization/agents of socialization

Answer 1

~How we learn the values, expectations, and practices of the culture.
~people are NOT blank slates upon which rules are written
~soc is complex and interconnected process
~Agents:peers, teachers, parents, sports, institutions, etc.

Question 2

1. Trading power for patronage

2. Altercasting

Answer 2

1. Giving up power to be taken care of.

2. She is put in the role of being dependent instead of independent.

Question 3

1. Sex
2. Sex category
3. Gender

Answer 3

1. Socially agreed upon biological criteria for classifying persons as male and female.
2. The category males and females are put into based on identifying characteristics. Ex: transgendered
3. The activity managing situated conduct in light of membership in a sex category-the actions, behaviors, mannerisms, language, etc. appropriate for the sex category.

Question 4

1. Tranvestite
2. Transgender
3. Transsexual

Answer 4

1. A person (usually a man) dressing in clothes appropriate for opposite gender.
2. Persons self identity does not conform to societal gender parameters.
3. Person who feels emotionally and psychologically that they belong to the opposite sex.

Question 5

Separate and different approach

Answer 5

~Aka “race-sex” analogy
A. You add (+) race to category
B. Experience of gender will be the same/ you add gender

Question 6

Additive approach

Answer 6

Race add (+) gender to it or class

Question 7

Interaction approach

Answer 7

~aka “prismatic” or “intersectional interactions”

Question 8

1. Hegemonic masculinity

2. Emphasized femininity

Answer 8

1. Is the dominant way that men should be men

2. It is the way or standard a female should be a female or feminine

Question 9

Culture

Answer 9

~Ex. Technology, clothes (the way you dress), community, food, believes, language, religion, etc.
~everything that is created and shared by a group/believes and practices

Question 10

Ethnocentrism

Answer 10

~we “see what we believe” - we’re likely to misinterpret patterns that vary from our own experiences.

Question 11

Vanatinai

Answer 11

~egalitarian practices
~means of production:products of labor
~land commonly held
~male superiority lacking
~generosity valued 
~autonomy

Question 12

Gender transgressions

Answer 12

Displays of inappropriate gender behavior

Question 13

Gender ideology

Answer 13

~collective decision-making 
~mortuary feasts/marriages
~networks of deceased, the father, spouse
~conflict resolved 
~women leave/movement free

Question 14

1. Rape and culture

2. The U.S. And the Gerai

Answer 14

1. ~Rape tantamount to death 
    ~product of difference rooted in patriarchy 
    ~W/M have difference in bodies 
    ~rape act feminized women 
    ~western cultures sexed body image
2. ~gender, sex and procreation in Gerai 
    ~status of men
    ~no dichotomy 
    ~men brave-know law
    ~women persistent-enduring

Question 15

Ethnography

Answer 15

~integrates both “doing gender” and intersectional approaches

Question 16

Testosterone and aggression relationship

Answer 16

Correlation does NOT prove causation and aggressive behavior causes testosterone secretion to increase

Question 17

Gender bending and its effect

Answer 17

~Misatributtion:taken to be a female when your a male or vise versa
~consequences of misidentification

Question 18

Intersexed

Answer 18

~medical intervention not for health
~not a protection or elimination of stigma -maintains social order
~focus on personal troubles-not social issue
~deviance is created socially-judgments, beliefs, actions
~definition of “normal” culturally specific

Question 19

Individual approach to gender

Answer 19

~Socialization, internalization
~identity work
~construction of self

Question 20

Interactional approach to gender

Answer 20

~cultural expectations
~status expectations, cognitive bias, othering
~trading power for patronage
~alter casting

Question 21

Institutional Approach to gender

Answer 21

~organizational practices,
~legal regulations
~distribution of resources
~ideology

Question 22

Prismatic approach

Answer 22

~power explains interaction of influence

~the power of any single socially constructed identity is related to all other categories