Soc 103 - Exam #2 Questions With
Correct Answers
Article 21 "Sex and Gender through the Prism of Difference" - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-What is the prism of difference? | | | | |
| - Have to look at a person as a whole to understand them
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Describe the framework of early women's studies. How did it limit the
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study of gender?
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| - Differences between men and women not among men and women
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| - Focuses on certain groups of women → not all women
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| - Missing the experiences of "other" women
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Explain the voices of "other" women.
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- Women of color or any woman that isn't a white, upper middle class
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woman
How is this related to social imagination?
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| - Look at broader and more specific views
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Article 20 "A Dream Deferred" - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Institutionalized
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racism
Harder for undocumented students to go to college
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| - Trouble in college
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,Dream act |
| - Problematic
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Gender Roles - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Expectations regarding the
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proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females
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Gender socialization - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the process by which men
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and women learn the expectations and identities associated with
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gender in society | |
Gender Inequality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The difference in the status,
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power and prestige that women and men have in society
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Traditional Division of Labor in the Household - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--
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In the past, the differences between men and women were seen as
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strictly biological |
- However, biological predispositions are strongly affected by social
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influences and culture | |
- Preindustrial America
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- Industrial America
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- Advocated for family wage
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, Preindustrial America - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-men and women worked
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alongside each other in the home
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Industrial America - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-men worked away from
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home, and women worked in the home
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| - home production
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Advocated for family wage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-husband would be
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paid more than usual so wife could work at home
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Women's labor force increase - reasons - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--
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Decreased family size | |
| - Less energy needed to maintain and take care of children
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- Technological changes
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| - Vacuums, laundry machines, refrigerators
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- New consumer products
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- Changes in economy
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| - More service jobs
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- Increase divorce rate
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| - Woman became financially independent
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- Changing ideas about gender
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| - More socially acceptable for women to work
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Correct Answers
Article 21 "Sex and Gender through the Prism of Difference" - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-What is the prism of difference? | | | | |
| - Have to look at a person as a whole to understand them
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Describe the framework of early women's studies. How did it limit the
| | | | | | | | | | | |
study of gender?
| |
| - Differences between men and women not among men and women
| | | | | | | | | |
| - Focuses on certain groups of women → not all women
| | | | | | | | | |
| - Missing the experiences of "other" women
| | | | | |
Explain the voices of "other" women.
| | | | |
- Women of color or any woman that isn't a white, upper middle class
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
woman
How is this related to social imagination?
| | | | | |
| - Look at broader and more specific views
| | | | | | |
Article 20 "A Dream Deferred" - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Institutionalized
| | | | | | | |
racism
Harder for undocumented students to go to college
| | | | | | |
| - Trouble in college
| | |
,Dream act |
| - Problematic
|
Gender Roles - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Expectations regarding the
| | | | | | |
proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females
| | | | | | | |
Gender socialization - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the process by which men
| | | | | | | |
and women learn the expectations and identities associated with
| | | | | | | | | |
gender in society | |
Gender Inequality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The difference in the status,
| | | | | | | | |
power and prestige that women and men have in society
| | | | | | | | |
Traditional Division of Labor in the Household - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--
| | | | | | | | | |
In the past, the differences between men and women were seen as
| | | | | | | | | | | |
strictly biological |
- However, biological predispositions are strongly affected by social
| | | | | | | | |
influences and culture | |
- Preindustrial America
| |
- Industrial America
| |
- Advocated for family wage
| | | |
, Preindustrial America - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-men and women worked
| | | | | | |
alongside each other in the home
| | | | | |
Industrial America - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-men worked away from
| | | | | | | |
home, and women worked in the home
| | | | | |
| - home production
| |
Advocated for family wage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-husband would be
| | | | | | | | |
paid more than usual so wife could work at home
| | | | | | | | |
Women's labor force increase - reasons - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--
| | | | | | | | |
Decreased family size | |
| - Less energy needed to maintain and take care of children
| | | | | | | | | |
- Technological changes
| |
| - Vacuums, laundry machines, refrigerators
| | | |
- New consumer products
| | |
- Changes in economy
| | |
| - More service jobs
| | |
- Increase divorce rate
| | |
| - Woman became financially independent
| | | |
- Changing ideas about gender
| | | |
| - More socially acceptable for women to work
| | | | | | |
