Quiz one Flashcards
The claim that sex marks a distinction between physically and generally discrete categories of people- males and females- is know as: A. Sexual Dimorphism B. Biosocial Perspective C. Historical Perspective D. Sexual categorization
A. Sexual dimorphism
The Biosocial approach says that most of what we consider to be gender is socially constructed, but limited by biological truth in terms of male and female bodies
True or False
True
The principle that states: "if people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences." is know as the \_\_\_\_\_ principle A. Ryle B. Weber C. Marxian D. Thomas
D. Thomas
The assigned reading on the Nacirema was meant to illustrate which of the following concepts?
A. gender polarization
B. Androcentrism
C. Ethnocentrism
D. Medicalization of deviance
C. ethnocentrism
"It is culture that dictates how we see sex" would align well with what theoretical perspective? A. Biosocial B. Social Constructivist C. Historical essentialist D. Biological Essentialist
B. Social Constructivist
According to Bem’s arictle, The Lenses of Gender, Which of the following is included in the lends of androcetrism?
A. males are seen as superior to females
B. the interests or qualities of females are seen as deviant if they differ from those of males.
C. Males are considered to be the norm
D. all of the above
E. only A and B
D. all of the above
While there are many differences in gender norms, all societies accept as fact that there are only two biologically distinct sex categories
True or False
False
Biological essentialism refers to the division of all males, and females, masculine and feminine into opposite categories
True or False
False
Which of the following perspectives would be most likely to say that sex and gender are things that society has made and how we see them change over time? A. essentialists B. Biosocialists C. Constructionists D. Gynocentrists
C. Constructionist
