WST 2010 Question and answers rated
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Testimonial - correct answer a formal statement testifying to someone's
character and qualifications. (Rigoberta Menchu Tum was 23 yrs old when
she recorded a testimonial of her life experiences.)
Culture - correct answer a system of beliefs and behaviors shared by a group
of people and transmitted from one generation to the next via social learning
rather than biology. Culture is generated by people.
Gender - correct answer In psychology, the biologically and socially
influenced characteristics by which people define male and female.
Biological Determinism - correct answer a line of thought that explains social
behavior in terms of who you are in the natural world (Women have babies.
Babies are helpless; therefore, the little women stay at home and tend the
kids.)
Cultural Determinism - correct answer Cultural determinism is the belief that
the culture in which we are raised determines who we are at emotional and
behavioral levels. This supports the theory that environmental influences
dominate who we are instead of biologically inherited traits. (Bodies don't
matter. Human lives are really assorted identities, representations,and cultural
artifacts.)
Gender roles - correct answer Expectations about what is appropriate
behavior for each sex. (Human beings transcend sex of biology with gender.
We assign social roles and determine how people defined as females will act,
dress, speak, get married, or be friends with others; the same is true for
males.)
, Gender ideologies - correct answer the attitudes of men and women on their
place in society, their rights, and responsibilities; affect women and men's
experience in the workplace. (they include the prescription and sanctions for
what is considered appropriate female or male behaviors, and cultural
rationalizations or religious explanations for the social and political
relationships that are believed to exist between the genders.)
Women's culture - correct answer The term has also been used in its
anthropological sense to encompass the familial and friendship networks of
women, their affective ties, their rituals. It is important to understand that
woman's culture is never a subculture. It would hardly be appropriate to define
the culture of half of humanity as a subculture. Women live their social
existence within the general culture. Whenever they are confined by
patriarchal restraint or segregation into separateness (which always has
subordination as its purpose), they transform this restraint into
complementarity and redefine it. Thus, women live a duality- as members of
the general culture and as parkers of woman's culture.
Code switching - correct answer the practice of alternating between two or
more languages or varieties of language in conversation. (as we grow up we
learn to switch cultural codes depending on situation and context.)
Genderlects - correct answer male-female communication is cross-culture
communications.
Sexual division of labor - correct answer Division of work between genders.
(the assignment of the survival tasks of the society according to gender.)
Work - correct answer The work that human beings do falls into four
categories: Production, reproduction, status enhancement, and morale
building. sometimes work falls neatly into one of these four categories. at
other times we see these categories merge or overlap.
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Testimonial - correct answer a formal statement testifying to someone's
character and qualifications. (Rigoberta Menchu Tum was 23 yrs old when
she recorded a testimonial of her life experiences.)
Culture - correct answer a system of beliefs and behaviors shared by a group
of people and transmitted from one generation to the next via social learning
rather than biology. Culture is generated by people.
Gender - correct answer In psychology, the biologically and socially
influenced characteristics by which people define male and female.
Biological Determinism - correct answer a line of thought that explains social
behavior in terms of who you are in the natural world (Women have babies.
Babies are helpless; therefore, the little women stay at home and tend the
kids.)
Cultural Determinism - correct answer Cultural determinism is the belief that
the culture in which we are raised determines who we are at emotional and
behavioral levels. This supports the theory that environmental influences
dominate who we are instead of biologically inherited traits. (Bodies don't
matter. Human lives are really assorted identities, representations,and cultural
artifacts.)
Gender roles - correct answer Expectations about what is appropriate
behavior for each sex. (Human beings transcend sex of biology with gender.
We assign social roles and determine how people defined as females will act,
dress, speak, get married, or be friends with others; the same is true for
males.)
, Gender ideologies - correct answer the attitudes of men and women on their
place in society, their rights, and responsibilities; affect women and men's
experience in the workplace. (they include the prescription and sanctions for
what is considered appropriate female or male behaviors, and cultural
rationalizations or religious explanations for the social and political
relationships that are believed to exist between the genders.)
Women's culture - correct answer The term has also been used in its
anthropological sense to encompass the familial and friendship networks of
women, their affective ties, their rituals. It is important to understand that
woman's culture is never a subculture. It would hardly be appropriate to define
the culture of half of humanity as a subculture. Women live their social
existence within the general culture. Whenever they are confined by
patriarchal restraint or segregation into separateness (which always has
subordination as its purpose), they transform this restraint into
complementarity and redefine it. Thus, women live a duality- as members of
the general culture and as parkers of woman's culture.
Code switching - correct answer the practice of alternating between two or
more languages or varieties of language in conversation. (as we grow up we
learn to switch cultural codes depending on situation and context.)
Genderlects - correct answer male-female communication is cross-culture
communications.
Sexual division of labor - correct answer Division of work between genders.
(the assignment of the survival tasks of the society according to gender.)
Work - correct answer The work that human beings do falls into four
categories: Production, reproduction, status enhancement, and morale
building. sometimes work falls neatly into one of these four categories. at
other times we see these categories merge or overlap.
