Week 4

Question 1

What is Sex

Answer 1

A determination made through the application of socially agreed upon biolgoical criteria for classifying persons as females and males based on biological characteristics of our body.

Question 2

What is gender

Answer 2

collection of characterisitcs including personality traits, interests, behaviours and appearance factors that uclturally and socially define a person as feminine or masculine

Question 3

What is essentialism

Answer 3

the idea that gender diferences stem from qualities that resident in or possesed by women and men

Question 4

What are radical feminists

Answer 4

assume that gender inequality is a function of mens control of womens reproduction and sexuality

Question 5

What are features of biological families

Answer 5

Womens biological capacity to reproduce made them dependent on men for their survival
children take a long time to become independent compared to the young of other species
often women are dependent on men to earn a living
Once they have children they turn into mothers and are devoted to protect them

Question 6

What was firestones solution to freeing women from their biology

Answer 6

to free women from tryanny of their reproductive biologu; natural reproduction must be replaced by the use of new reproductive technologies, arguing that the reason women are oppresed is because they can have childre, so they must get rid of it

Question 7

What does mcmulling argue about radical feminism

Answer 7

that it focuses exclusively on the social relations of reproductions, but in their focus they tend to focus narrowly on being pregnant giving birth and having new babies.

Question 8

What is heteronormative ideology

Answer 8

the belief that heterosexuality is the dominant sexual orienttion in our society and the LGBTQ is abnromal expression

Question 9

What do socialist feminists argue

Answer 9

argue that the relations of capital and therefore class relations are pivotal for understanding womens womens oppression

Question 10

According to marxists feminists what role does family play

Answer 10

provides workers the nurturing environment for sustaining them
family reproduces the labour nexessary for making commodities and maintaining capitalist enterprises, making babies to enter the workfroce.
helps sustain dominant ideology

Question 11

How does family subsidize capital

Answer 11

through the provision of unpaid labour. its only because of unpaid labour done at home that people can afford to live.

Question 12

What are dual system theorists

Answer 12

these theorists suggest that patriarchy and capitalism are two distinct systems that intersect in relations to the oppression of women

Question 13

What is patriarchy

Answer 13

a system of social structures and practices in which men dominate, oppress and exploit women

Question 14

What is the social relations of distribution

Answer 14

the relations of distribution are sequences of linked actions through which people share the necessities of survival

Question 15

What holds together personal relations of distribution?

Answer 15

emotional bonds, usually between blood relatives and are dependent on the wage

Question 16

what are marital relations of distribution?

Answer 16

the central component od distribution for married women who do not work for pay and are thus dependent on their husband for their wage

Question 17

what is state relations of distributio?

Answer 17

based on laws and governmental policies that have historically been developed in gendered ways.

Question 18

For acker what shaped class?

Answer 18

the culiminated of the gendered relations.

Question 19

What does acker argue to understand intersection between gender and class

Answer 19

scholars must understand that each mutually constitutes the other. in other words the experience of being a man or a woman is fundamentally shaped by her or his social class, but class experience is also fudnamentlaly shaped by ones gender

Question 20

Sex category is achieved through what

Answer 20

application of the sex criteria but in everyday life, categorization is established and sustained by the socially required identifacory display that proclaim ones membership in or the other category

Question 21

Gender is the activity of managing….

Answer 21

situated conducts in light of normative conceptions of attitudes and activites appropriate for ones sex category. gender activities emerge from and bolster claims to membership in a sex category.

Question 22

Who developed SI

Answer 22

Erving Goffman

Question 23

How does SI view social reality

Answer 23

reality as a product of the meaning making of individuals during interaction with others

Question 24

What do West and Zimmerman argue about Gender inequality

Answer 24

argue that gender inequality is realzed and socially constructed through our daily activities in interactions with others

Question 25

What does Doing gender involve and mean

Answer 25

involves a complex of socially guided perceptual interactional and micropolitical activities that cast particular pursuits as expressions of masculine and feminine natures.. gender is an emergent feature of social situations:both as an outcome of and a rationale for various social arrangements as a means of legitimating one of the most

Question 26

Social prestige and power are awarded to individuals on the basis of

Answer 26

their priviliged or less priviliged sex cateogry status, so stakes are high in the performance of gender