SOC 202 STUDY QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
According to Katz, "heterosexuality is understood as the ____ against which homosexuality is
defined as deviant"
-deviance
-hegemonic
-norm
-homosexuality - ✔✔Norm
According to Adrienne Rich, "objectivity is determined by ____ subjectivity"
-female
-male
-gender
-celebrity - ✔✔Male
In Girls, Marnie is continually agitating with her boyfriend, Charlie. In terms of our lecture on
gender and masculinity, Charlie appears ____ and thisaddravated his girlfriend
-too feminine
-queer
-homosexual
-effeminate - ✔✔too feminine
The hipster of the late 90s and early 2000s is social identity construction reflective of _____
-heteronormative
-normativity
-Postmodernism
-Neoliberalism - ✔✔Neoliberalism
, In terms of ideology, heteronormativity, gender and idealism, as well as the entertainment and
economy of popular culture, the enduring popularity of ___ is due to their being safe, sanitized
and continually topical
-Christmas movies
-Nostalgia films
-black cinema
-hood films - ✔✔Christmas movies
A consumerist market segmentation rooted in pop culture and consisting of young, urban,
white and middle-class men defined as narcissistic and preoccupied with their "looks" came to
be identified as _____ in the ______
-Pastiche/1990
-Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism /1991
-Capitalism /1991
-Metrosecuality / 1990s - ✔✔Metrosecuality / 1990s
Which of the following does Lyotard not list as a characteristic of postmodernism
-A moving on from the traumas of the past
-pleasurable male gaze consuming a female body on display
-patriarchal unconscious that positions women as objects of the male gaze
-Operating from a counter-hegemonic perspective - ✔✔A moving on from the traumas of
the past
According to François Truffaut, the central role of the ____ is to "transform a film into
something personal, an expression of his own personality"
- auteur
-hegemony
-simulacrum
ANSWERS
According to Katz, "heterosexuality is understood as the ____ against which homosexuality is
defined as deviant"
-deviance
-hegemonic
-norm
-homosexuality - ✔✔Norm
According to Adrienne Rich, "objectivity is determined by ____ subjectivity"
-female
-male
-gender
-celebrity - ✔✔Male
In Girls, Marnie is continually agitating with her boyfriend, Charlie. In terms of our lecture on
gender and masculinity, Charlie appears ____ and thisaddravated his girlfriend
-too feminine
-queer
-homosexual
-effeminate - ✔✔too feminine
The hipster of the late 90s and early 2000s is social identity construction reflective of _____
-heteronormative
-normativity
-Postmodernism
-Neoliberalism - ✔✔Neoliberalism
, In terms of ideology, heteronormativity, gender and idealism, as well as the entertainment and
economy of popular culture, the enduring popularity of ___ is due to their being safe, sanitized
and continually topical
-Christmas movies
-Nostalgia films
-black cinema
-hood films - ✔✔Christmas movies
A consumerist market segmentation rooted in pop culture and consisting of young, urban,
white and middle-class men defined as narcissistic and preoccupied with their "looks" came to
be identified as _____ in the ______
-Pastiche/1990
-Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism /1991
-Capitalism /1991
-Metrosecuality / 1990s - ✔✔Metrosecuality / 1990s
Which of the following does Lyotard not list as a characteristic of postmodernism
-A moving on from the traumas of the past
-pleasurable male gaze consuming a female body on display
-patriarchal unconscious that positions women as objects of the male gaze
-Operating from a counter-hegemonic perspective - ✔✔A moving on from the traumas of
the past
According to François Truffaut, the central role of the ____ is to "transform a film into
something personal, an expression of his own personality"
- auteur
-hegemony
-simulacrum
