Feminism 100 passed Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Sociology in Modules 6 th ed by Schaefer Test Bank Sociology in Modules, (Schaefer) Chapter 01 Understanding Sociology 1) The awareness that allows people to comprehend the link between their immediate, personal social settings and the remote, impersonal social world is called A) the sociological imagination. B) anthropology. C) a theory. D) verstehen. 2) Trying to understand why your roommate prefers a certain genre of music, over others, is an example of using one's A) cultura...

01 Student: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. According to Timmerman, sociologists are concerned with the study of: 
A. similarities between social evolution and the evolution of viruses.
B. how important individuals shape the society in which ordinary people live.
C. what people do as members of a group or while interacting with one another.
D. what people do today and how it can be used to predict future social trends.   2. The s...

What is colorism? - differential treatment based on skin tone that generally manifests itself as a preference for lighter colored skin -a prejudice that continues to exist not only among blacks but also among many POC and whites What does it mean to say someone/something is exoticized? - viewed as exotic, foreign, or unusual in an interesting way -women outside the racial norm have been exoticized in 2 ways: grotesquely sexual or sexually inviting and seductively mysterious Objectificatio...

Origins and developments -- Feminist ideas can be traced back to the ancient civilisations of Greece and China - Christine De Pisan's Book of the City of Ladies published in Italy (1405) foreshadowed many ideas of modern feminism such as advocating women's rights to education - The first text of modern feminism is Mary Wollstonecraft's the Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) - By the mid 19th C the women's movement acquired a central focus which was the right to vote Origins and...

Praxis 5001 - Reading and Language Arts 100% Correct Lexical Knowledge knowledge of word meanings Orthographic Knowledge knowledge of spellings and pronunications Phonemic Awareness Acknowledgement of sounds and words (knowing words rhyme) Phonemes the smallest unit of language capable of conveying distinction in meaning Phonics Method of teaching reading and spelling based on a phonetic interpretation of ordinary spelling Phonological awareness the ability of the reader to recognize the so...

.. -Ever notice how when justifying a child's misbehavior no one ever says stuff like "girls will be girls" or "she's a girl," but the list of things a "young lady" can't do is almost endless? You learn from a young age that masculinity comes with freedom; femininity comes with restrictions. ... -I think a lot of people have trouble understanding transgender issues because they try to see themselves as trans, but come at it from the wrong direction. - i.e. cis woman tries to underst...

Androgynous Androgynous means being neither male nor female nor both male and female. Feminism holds that human nature is androgynous. -This relates to the feminist idea of men and women being equal due to our human nature being equal. Sex vs Gender -sex is the biological criteria to signify whether an individual is male or female. There are 3 sexes male, female, and intersex. -gender is social construct and defined as the configurations of behaviour or activities involved in being mascu...

Androgynous Androgynous means being neither male nor female nor both male and female. Feminism holds that human nature is androgynous. -This relates to the feminist idea of men and women being equal due to our human nature being equal. Sex vs Gender -sex is the biological criteria to signify whether an individual is male or female. There are 3 sexes male, female, and intersex. -gender is social construct and defined as the configurations of behaviour or activities involved in being mascu...

What is feminism? - A political movement and ideology that aims to advance social rile of women. What are the two beliefs that characterize feminism? - -Women and men are treated differently because of their sex -Unequal treatment can and should be overturned What is the central concept of feminism? - Patriarchy, draws attention to the totality of oppression and exploitation to which women are subject. What is liberal feminism? - The commitment to individualism and formal equality, and is...

What is colorism? - differential treatment based on skin tone that generally manifests itself as a preference for lighter colored skin -a prejudice that continues to exist not only among blacks but also among many POC and whites What does it mean to say someone/something is exoticized? - viewed as exotic, foreign, or unusual in an interesting way -women outside the racial norm have been exoticized in 2 ways: grotesquely sexual or sexually inviting and seductively mysterious Objectificatio...

What is colorism? - differential treatment based on skin tone that generally manifests itself as a preference for lighter colored skin -a prejudice that continues to exist not only among blacks but also among many POC and whites What does it mean to say someone/something is exoticized? - viewed as exotic, foreign, or unusual in an interesting way -women outside the racial norm have been exoticized in 2 ways: grotesquely sexual or sexually inviting and seductively mysterious Objectificatio...