SOCIOLOGY 1301 STANDARD EXAMS SHEET 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Racial stereotypes - ✔✔Sexual politics are tied to race and class inequalities in
society.
Stereotypes are applied to different racial and ethnic groups.
✔✔Sexual abuse - ✔✔A right and a privilege of the White conquest of Black slaves.
-Black women were depicted sexual animals who were openly available to White men
-Black men were stereotyped as "lustful beasts" whose sexuality needed controlling by
"superior" White masters.
✔✔Rape - ✔✔Is used not just as an act of aggression against women, but also as a
way to humiliate and control them.
-Female's sexuality is exploited for someone's else's gain, which gives them status and
power.
✔✔International sex trade - ✔✔Sex trafficking- a worldwide international sex trade that
uses women as sex workers in an institutional context where sex itself is a commodity.
Women are used for:
-promoting tourism
-cater to business and military men
-support a huge industry of nightclubs and massage parlors.
✔✔Gays & lesbians - ✔✔A minority group in our society, denied equal rights and
singled out with negative treatment.
Have organized to advocate for their civil rights and to be recognized as socially
legitimate citizens.
Some organizations and municipalities have enacted civil rights protections on their
behalf.
✔✔Romer vs. Evans - ✔✔In 1966, the Supreme Court ruled that gays and lesbians
cannot be denied equal protection under the law.
This ruling overturned ordinances that had specifically denied civil rights protections to
lesbians and gays.
✔✔Birth Control - ✔✔Sexual reproductive rights are controlled by men.
-Men make and control birth control rights and the economics surrounding their
technological development.
✔✔Griswold Vs. Connecticut - ✔✔In 1965, the Supreme Court first recognized and
awarded the women the right to use birth control.
✔✔Surrogate mothering - ✔✔In vitro fertilization, gene splicing, cloning, and genetic
engineering mean that reproduction is no loner linked only to biological parents.
, ✔✔Abortion - ✔✔Roe v Wade- in 1973, the Supreme court gace women the legal right
to terminate pregnancy in the first trimester after conception. in the 2nd and 3rd
trimesters, states could impose restrictions on abortions.
Rates have decreased since 1980.
✔✔Teen pregnancy - ✔✔-US has the highest rate
-Since 1990, rates have declined (rates of teenage intercourse has not dropped but,
birth control usage has increased)
✔✔Sexual violence - ✔✔APA studies show rape is an abuse of power and it is related
to people's gender attitudes.
-Holding stereotypical attitudes about women is strongly related to adversarial sexual
beliefs, accepting rape myths, and tolerating violence against women.
✔✔"Ideal Type" family - ✔✔Happy monogamous family of a mom,dad, and two or three
kids.
✔✔Family - ✔✔A primary group of people, usually related by ancestry, marriage, or
adoption, who form a cooperative economic unit to care for offspring and each other,
and who are committed to maintaining the group over time.
-One of the major social institutions in society
-Part of a kinship system (a pattern of relationships that define people's family
relationships to one another)
-Structure of family changes as society changes
✔✔Polygamy - ✔✔Men or women being married to multiple spouses at the same time.
✔✔Monogamy - ✔✔A sexually exclusive marriage of one spouse at a time.
-U.S. is primarily a monogamous society.
✔✔Extended family - ✔✔The whole network of parents, children, and other relatives
who form a family unit.
✔✔Nuclear family - ✔✔A married couple who resides together with their children.
✔✔Functionalist theory on family - ✔✔Views family as filling particular societal needs
including:
-Socializing the young
-Regulating sexual activity and procreation
-Providing physical care for family members
-Giving psychological support and emotional security to individuals.
Families exists to meet these needs and ensure a consensus of values.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Racial stereotypes - ✔✔Sexual politics are tied to race and class inequalities in
society.
Stereotypes are applied to different racial and ethnic groups.
✔✔Sexual abuse - ✔✔A right and a privilege of the White conquest of Black slaves.
-Black women were depicted sexual animals who were openly available to White men
-Black men were stereotyped as "lustful beasts" whose sexuality needed controlling by
"superior" White masters.
✔✔Rape - ✔✔Is used not just as an act of aggression against women, but also as a
way to humiliate and control them.
-Female's sexuality is exploited for someone's else's gain, which gives them status and
power.
✔✔International sex trade - ✔✔Sex trafficking- a worldwide international sex trade that
uses women as sex workers in an institutional context where sex itself is a commodity.
Women are used for:
-promoting tourism
-cater to business and military men
-support a huge industry of nightclubs and massage parlors.
✔✔Gays & lesbians - ✔✔A minority group in our society, denied equal rights and
singled out with negative treatment.
Have organized to advocate for their civil rights and to be recognized as socially
legitimate citizens.
Some organizations and municipalities have enacted civil rights protections on their
behalf.
✔✔Romer vs. Evans - ✔✔In 1966, the Supreme Court ruled that gays and lesbians
cannot be denied equal protection under the law.
This ruling overturned ordinances that had specifically denied civil rights protections to
lesbians and gays.
✔✔Birth Control - ✔✔Sexual reproductive rights are controlled by men.
-Men make and control birth control rights and the economics surrounding their
technological development.
✔✔Griswold Vs. Connecticut - ✔✔In 1965, the Supreme Court first recognized and
awarded the women the right to use birth control.
✔✔Surrogate mothering - ✔✔In vitro fertilization, gene splicing, cloning, and genetic
engineering mean that reproduction is no loner linked only to biological parents.
, ✔✔Abortion - ✔✔Roe v Wade- in 1973, the Supreme court gace women the legal right
to terminate pregnancy in the first trimester after conception. in the 2nd and 3rd
trimesters, states could impose restrictions on abortions.
Rates have decreased since 1980.
✔✔Teen pregnancy - ✔✔-US has the highest rate
-Since 1990, rates have declined (rates of teenage intercourse has not dropped but,
birth control usage has increased)
✔✔Sexual violence - ✔✔APA studies show rape is an abuse of power and it is related
to people's gender attitudes.
-Holding stereotypical attitudes about women is strongly related to adversarial sexual
beliefs, accepting rape myths, and tolerating violence against women.
✔✔"Ideal Type" family - ✔✔Happy monogamous family of a mom,dad, and two or three
kids.
✔✔Family - ✔✔A primary group of people, usually related by ancestry, marriage, or
adoption, who form a cooperative economic unit to care for offspring and each other,
and who are committed to maintaining the group over time.
-One of the major social institutions in society
-Part of a kinship system (a pattern of relationships that define people's family
relationships to one another)
-Structure of family changes as society changes
✔✔Polygamy - ✔✔Men or women being married to multiple spouses at the same time.
✔✔Monogamy - ✔✔A sexually exclusive marriage of one spouse at a time.
-U.S. is primarily a monogamous society.
✔✔Extended family - ✔✔The whole network of parents, children, and other relatives
who form a family unit.
✔✔Nuclear family - ✔✔A married couple who resides together with their children.
✔✔Functionalist theory on family - ✔✔Views family as filling particular societal needs
including:
-Socializing the young
-Regulating sexual activity and procreation
-Providing physical care for family members
-Giving psychological support and emotional security to individuals.
Families exists to meet these needs and ensure a consensus of values.
