CMN 396 STUDY GUIDE WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTION
Dominant forms of knowledge are constructed from experiences of power -
ANSWER education
communication
interconnectedness embedded in historical domination and subordination -
ANSWER power
economic exploitation
Race, Class & Gender as a Matrix of Domination (Anderson & Collins, 2016) -
ANSWER social structures as having interlocking levels of domination that
stem from societal configuration of race, class, gender
Difference Framework - ANSWER RCG as separate entities and having unique
individual experiences
Matrix Framework - ANSWER posits that there is an interrelationship among
RCG that occurs in addition to their unique experiences
Is Gender, Race, & Class permanent or fixed? - ANSWER no, socially
constructed
change throughout history
not biological
historically which has the greatest weight of the three? - ANSWER class, bc of
the social and economical place in society
,Is there one universal gender oppression that is experienced by all women
regardless of their race-ethnicity or class? - ANSWER no
race is often involved in involved for decisions work such as - ANSWER
Placement
Labor & recruitment
Organizational Power - ANSWER Power organized by men over women
Human Capital - ANSWER status attainment theory
Ex:women can not be successful
Organizational Dynamics - ANSWER glass ceiling
Gender segregation - ANSWER men occupying best paying/ most prestigious
jobs
Gendered Organizations - ANSWER assumptions about gender and gendered
characteristics of workers
The minority status - ANSWER women in organizations provides a barrier for
women in predominantly male occupations.
3 types of work - ANSWER forced work
market work
non-market work
forced work - ANSWER performed under compulsion & provides little or no
pay (sweatshop, child labor, prisoners, chain gangs)
market work - ANSWER paid work
, people perform for themselves & others (paycheck work for a boss)
non-market - ANSWER not paid people perform for themselves & others.
More for themselves than others
Sex - ANSWER term of classification based on human biology (ex.
chromosomes and reproductive organs)
Gender - ANSWER represents a classification that social actors construct that
typically exaggerates the difference between females and males
Sex Differentiation - ANSWER classifying people into categories based on sex
Opposite Sex - ANSWER reveals how society construes males and females as
not just different but diametrically opposed
Sex-Gender Hierarchy - ANSWER generally favors males over females
Gender Differentiation - ANSWER defined as the social processes that create
and exaggerate biological differences.
Distinguishes activities, interests, and places as either male or female.
Social Construction Gender - ANSWER the process of converting males and
females who are vastly more similar than different in biological terms. (e.g.,
masculinity vs. feminitity)
Sex Segregation - ANSWER The concentration of men and women in
different types of work
Discrimination - ANSWER treating people unequally because of personal
characteristics that are not related to their performance
Sexual Harassment - ANSWER is a form of discrimination under Title VII
COMPLETE SOLUTION
Dominant forms of knowledge are constructed from experiences of power -
ANSWER education
communication
interconnectedness embedded in historical domination and subordination -
ANSWER power
economic exploitation
Race, Class & Gender as a Matrix of Domination (Anderson & Collins, 2016) -
ANSWER social structures as having interlocking levels of domination that
stem from societal configuration of race, class, gender
Difference Framework - ANSWER RCG as separate entities and having unique
individual experiences
Matrix Framework - ANSWER posits that there is an interrelationship among
RCG that occurs in addition to their unique experiences
Is Gender, Race, & Class permanent or fixed? - ANSWER no, socially
constructed
change throughout history
not biological
historically which has the greatest weight of the three? - ANSWER class, bc of
the social and economical place in society
,Is there one universal gender oppression that is experienced by all women
regardless of their race-ethnicity or class? - ANSWER no
race is often involved in involved for decisions work such as - ANSWER
Placement
Labor & recruitment
Organizational Power - ANSWER Power organized by men over women
Human Capital - ANSWER status attainment theory
Ex:women can not be successful
Organizational Dynamics - ANSWER glass ceiling
Gender segregation - ANSWER men occupying best paying/ most prestigious
jobs
Gendered Organizations - ANSWER assumptions about gender and gendered
characteristics of workers
The minority status - ANSWER women in organizations provides a barrier for
women in predominantly male occupations.
3 types of work - ANSWER forced work
market work
non-market work
forced work - ANSWER performed under compulsion & provides little or no
pay (sweatshop, child labor, prisoners, chain gangs)
market work - ANSWER paid work
, people perform for themselves & others (paycheck work for a boss)
non-market - ANSWER not paid people perform for themselves & others.
More for themselves than others
Sex - ANSWER term of classification based on human biology (ex.
chromosomes and reproductive organs)
Gender - ANSWER represents a classification that social actors construct that
typically exaggerates the difference between females and males
Sex Differentiation - ANSWER classifying people into categories based on sex
Opposite Sex - ANSWER reveals how society construes males and females as
not just different but diametrically opposed
Sex-Gender Hierarchy - ANSWER generally favors males over females
Gender Differentiation - ANSWER defined as the social processes that create
and exaggerate biological differences.
Distinguishes activities, interests, and places as either male or female.
Social Construction Gender - ANSWER the process of converting males and
females who are vastly more similar than different in biological terms. (e.g.,
masculinity vs. feminitity)
Sex Segregation - ANSWER The concentration of men and women in
different types of work
Discrimination - ANSWER treating people unequally because of personal
characteristics that are not related to their performance
Sexual Harassment - ANSWER is a form of discrimination under Title VII
