Global Gender Issues Final
Gender - correct answer-socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities and attributes that a
given society considers appropriate for men and women/ boy and girl
Sex - correct answer-Biological/physiological characteristics that define men and women
Patriarchy - correct answer-father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced
through male line
Feminism - correct answer-approach dedicated/committed to breaking down the structures
that keep woman lower in status/power
Ethnocentrism - correct answer-the tendency for people to place their own culture at the
center of the world and to think that it is superior to others
Body Ritual Among Nacirema - correct answer-**American** Most would hate to live among
the Nacirema but really story explained the american lifestyle
Globalization - correct answer-the increased flow of trade, people, investment, technology,
culture, and ideas among cultures (blending and mixing cultural values)
Micro - correct answer-local
Macro - correct answer-Worldwide
Sympathy - correct answer-the feeling that you care about and are sorry about someone
else's trouble, grief, misfortune, etc.
Empathy - correct answer-the feeling that you understand and share another person's
experiences and emotions, the ability to share someone else's feelings
Masculinities - correct answer-socially constructed multiple definitions of manhood.
Masculinity means different things to different groups of men at different times. Experiences
depend on class, race, ethnicity, age, and region of the country. For example: what it means
to be an older black, gay man, in Cleveland is different from what it means to a young white
heterosexual farm boy in Iowa.
Public Patriarchy - correct answer-institutional arrangements of a society, the predominance
of males in all power positions within the economy and policy, both locally and nationally as
well as the "gendering" of those institutions themselves
Domestic Patriarchy - correct answer-emotional and familial arrangements in a society, the
ways in which men's power in the public arena is reproduced at the level of private life
Gender - correct answer-socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities and attributes that a
given society considers appropriate for men and women/ boy and girl
Sex - correct answer-Biological/physiological characteristics that define men and women
Patriarchy - correct answer-father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced
through male line
Feminism - correct answer-approach dedicated/committed to breaking down the structures
that keep woman lower in status/power
Ethnocentrism - correct answer-the tendency for people to place their own culture at the
center of the world and to think that it is superior to others
Body Ritual Among Nacirema - correct answer-**American** Most would hate to live among
the Nacirema but really story explained the american lifestyle
Globalization - correct answer-the increased flow of trade, people, investment, technology,
culture, and ideas among cultures (blending and mixing cultural values)
Micro - correct answer-local
Macro - correct answer-Worldwide
Sympathy - correct answer-the feeling that you care about and are sorry about someone
else's trouble, grief, misfortune, etc.
Empathy - correct answer-the feeling that you understand and share another person's
experiences and emotions, the ability to share someone else's feelings
Masculinities - correct answer-socially constructed multiple definitions of manhood.
Masculinity means different things to different groups of men at different times. Experiences
depend on class, race, ethnicity, age, and region of the country. For example: what it means
to be an older black, gay man, in Cleveland is different from what it means to a young white
heterosexual farm boy in Iowa.
Public Patriarchy - correct answer-institutional arrangements of a society, the predominance
of males in all power positions within the economy and policy, both locally and nationally as
well as the "gendering" of those institutions themselves
Domestic Patriarchy - correct answer-emotional and familial arrangements in a society, the
ways in which men's power in the public arena is reproduced at the level of private life
