UNLV WMST 101-1001 questions and
answers graded A+ passed
Agency - ANS ✔The ability to speak your mind, share your thoughts, and engage with the social
discourse
Subject/Object - ANS ✔•Subject: if the person or group is allowed to speak, are able to take
action/have control of their own life, create their own meaning
•Object: if a person or groups speech is stifled, unable to act or feel control, they have meaning
thrust upon them
subject has power
object does not have power
Residual/Dominant/Emergent Discourse - ANS ✔•Residual: a set of beliefs about a topic that
are on their way out or dying off
•Dominant: the most commonly held and widely accepted beliefs about a topic at any given
moment
•Emergent: new, often progressive, ideas or beliefs about a topic that is on the rise
Privledge - ANS ✔a set of unearned advantages or benefits enjoyed by an individual or group
Patriarchy - ANS ✔a society in which men hold and maintain a dominant position of power and
others, specifically women, are either excluded from or have an unequal access to that power
White Supremacy - ANS ✔the racist theory that those with white descent are superior to all
others and should, therefore, hold the power within a given society
, Intersectionality - ANS ✔the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class,
and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and
interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage
Gender vs. Sex - ANS ✔•Gender: describes a set of social characteristics prescribed to each
gender (roles, identity, appearance)
•Sex: prescribes whether or not you are "male" or "female" based primarily on physical
characteristics
Feminist Social Theory - ANS ✔socially constructed gender roles (ie. gender stereotypes) that
cause and perpetuate structural inequality (ie. unequal pay, jobs, marriage roles, etc) within a
patriarchal society. This inequality does not come from biology but rather from culture
Gender Essentialism - ANS ✔a theory that maintains that men and women have distinct and
innate "qualities" (ie. there is some inherent "maleness" to men and "femaleness" to women).
Basically, gender essentialism negates the idea that gender is fluid.
Gender Performance - ANS ✔suggests that gender expression is actually a repetitive
performance based on what society thinks a particular gender looks/acts like.
Mestiza - ANS ✔a way of describing living in a liminal space beyond the binary
"Pink Collar" Jobs - ANS ✔refers to the types of jobs traditionally held by women. These jobs
almost always reinforce strict gender stereotypes and socially sanctioned gender roles. These
jobs are also almost always lower-paying and less stable in nature than other fields. Some
examples include:
Teachers (K-12)
Nurses
answers graded A+ passed
Agency - ANS ✔The ability to speak your mind, share your thoughts, and engage with the social
discourse
Subject/Object - ANS ✔•Subject: if the person or group is allowed to speak, are able to take
action/have control of their own life, create their own meaning
•Object: if a person or groups speech is stifled, unable to act or feel control, they have meaning
thrust upon them
subject has power
object does not have power
Residual/Dominant/Emergent Discourse - ANS ✔•Residual: a set of beliefs about a topic that
are on their way out or dying off
•Dominant: the most commonly held and widely accepted beliefs about a topic at any given
moment
•Emergent: new, often progressive, ideas or beliefs about a topic that is on the rise
Privledge - ANS ✔a set of unearned advantages or benefits enjoyed by an individual or group
Patriarchy - ANS ✔a society in which men hold and maintain a dominant position of power and
others, specifically women, are either excluded from or have an unequal access to that power
White Supremacy - ANS ✔the racist theory that those with white descent are superior to all
others and should, therefore, hold the power within a given society
, Intersectionality - ANS ✔the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class,
and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and
interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage
Gender vs. Sex - ANS ✔•Gender: describes a set of social characteristics prescribed to each
gender (roles, identity, appearance)
•Sex: prescribes whether or not you are "male" or "female" based primarily on physical
characteristics
Feminist Social Theory - ANS ✔socially constructed gender roles (ie. gender stereotypes) that
cause and perpetuate structural inequality (ie. unequal pay, jobs, marriage roles, etc) within a
patriarchal society. This inequality does not come from biology but rather from culture
Gender Essentialism - ANS ✔a theory that maintains that men and women have distinct and
innate "qualities" (ie. there is some inherent "maleness" to men and "femaleness" to women).
Basically, gender essentialism negates the idea that gender is fluid.
Gender Performance - ANS ✔suggests that gender expression is actually a repetitive
performance based on what society thinks a particular gender looks/acts like.
Mestiza - ANS ✔a way of describing living in a liminal space beyond the binary
"Pink Collar" Jobs - ANS ✔refers to the types of jobs traditionally held by women. These jobs
almost always reinforce strict gender stereotypes and socially sanctioned gender roles. These
jobs are also almost always lower-paying and less stable in nature than other fields. Some
examples include:
Teachers (K-12)
Nurses
