SYG 2000 LATEST 2026 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Describe the conflict theory of prejudice - ✔✔a power struggle where dominant
groups (upper castes) use prejudice and discrimination to maintain control over
resources, status, and opportunities, creating hierarchy and inequality
✔✔What are the stages of prejudice? - ✔✔1. Prejudice and discrimination
Begin as ethnocentric attitudes/actions
2. Social disadvantage
Groups placed in situation where they are socially disadvantaged/labelled
3. "Innate" inferiority
Groups situation over time, explained as condition of inferiority rather than considering
reasons based on social structure
✔✔Define gender identity - ✔✔understanding ourselves as male, female, transgender,
fluid nonbinary
✔✔Describe patriarchy - ✔✔Male centered & dominated system of social and
institutional relations, elevates gender status
✔✔What are the basic principles of feminism? - ✔✔change is critical, expansion of
human choice (no restrictions on potential, gender equality under the law, ending sexual
violence, sexual/reproductive autonomy
✔✔What is liberal feminism? - ✔✔focused on achieving gender equality through
legal/political reforms within existing democratic systems rather than radical societal
restructuring, humanitarian-like thinking, gender equality
✔✔What is socialist feminism? - ✔✔belief in socialist revolution, movement linking
women's oppression to capitalism and patriarchy
✔✔What is radical feminism? - ✔✔eliminate idea of gender, egalitarian, gender-free
revolution
✔✔Describe opposition to feminism - ✔✔most directed toward socialist and radical
groups, many men reluctant to give up perks
✔✔How do the families organize our perspective of gender? - ✔✔Selective Abortion
Is it a Boy or a Girl?
Raising Children
- differential structuring of physical environment
- choice of play objects
- different interaction styles
- girls given more latitude
, ✔✔How do peer groups organize our perspective of gender? - ✔✔Normative
Conceptions of gender
- pressured to act in a gendered way
Playing games
- boys and team sports (teaches competition, rules, winning)
Girls and "cooperative" games
- teach interpersonal skills and the value of sharing and cooperation
✔✔What is the social body? - ✔✔Cultural standards of beauty/attractiveness
✔✔What are the 3 key industries of the social body? - ✔✔Weight loss/gain diets
- anorexia nervosa/bulimia
Cosmetics/makeup
Body building/fitness
✔✔How are men's bodies socially constructed? - ✔✔pumping up the male body,
muscle dysmorphia
✔✔Define health - ✔✔A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and
not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
✔✔What are examples of negotiated interpersonal experience? - ✔✔parents, partners,
children, healthcare providers
✔✔What are examples of network context? - ✔✔social support, poor/good role
modeling
✔✔Define network context - ✔✔refers to how the surrounding environment (physical
places, organizations, cultures) shapes the structure, formation, and meaning of social
ties
✔✔What is social construction of the life course? - ✔✔childhood, adolescence, young
adulthood, adulthood, later years of life
✔✔Define social health matrix - ✔✔"myriad conditions, relationships, and choices that
define matters of health, fitness, and well-being" for individuals and their intersecting
lives
✔✔What is the Multi-level Conceptual Framework For Understanding personal Health?
- ✔✔personal, interpersonal, community/organizational context, cultural/structural
context
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Describe the conflict theory of prejudice - ✔✔a power struggle where dominant
groups (upper castes) use prejudice and discrimination to maintain control over
resources, status, and opportunities, creating hierarchy and inequality
✔✔What are the stages of prejudice? - ✔✔1. Prejudice and discrimination
Begin as ethnocentric attitudes/actions
2. Social disadvantage
Groups placed in situation where they are socially disadvantaged/labelled
3. "Innate" inferiority
Groups situation over time, explained as condition of inferiority rather than considering
reasons based on social structure
✔✔Define gender identity - ✔✔understanding ourselves as male, female, transgender,
fluid nonbinary
✔✔Describe patriarchy - ✔✔Male centered & dominated system of social and
institutional relations, elevates gender status
✔✔What are the basic principles of feminism? - ✔✔change is critical, expansion of
human choice (no restrictions on potential, gender equality under the law, ending sexual
violence, sexual/reproductive autonomy
✔✔What is liberal feminism? - ✔✔focused on achieving gender equality through
legal/political reforms within existing democratic systems rather than radical societal
restructuring, humanitarian-like thinking, gender equality
✔✔What is socialist feminism? - ✔✔belief in socialist revolution, movement linking
women's oppression to capitalism and patriarchy
✔✔What is radical feminism? - ✔✔eliminate idea of gender, egalitarian, gender-free
revolution
✔✔Describe opposition to feminism - ✔✔most directed toward socialist and radical
groups, many men reluctant to give up perks
✔✔How do the families organize our perspective of gender? - ✔✔Selective Abortion
Is it a Boy or a Girl?
Raising Children
- differential structuring of physical environment
- choice of play objects
- different interaction styles
- girls given more latitude
, ✔✔How do peer groups organize our perspective of gender? - ✔✔Normative
Conceptions of gender
- pressured to act in a gendered way
Playing games
- boys and team sports (teaches competition, rules, winning)
Girls and "cooperative" games
- teach interpersonal skills and the value of sharing and cooperation
✔✔What is the social body? - ✔✔Cultural standards of beauty/attractiveness
✔✔What are the 3 key industries of the social body? - ✔✔Weight loss/gain diets
- anorexia nervosa/bulimia
Cosmetics/makeup
Body building/fitness
✔✔How are men's bodies socially constructed? - ✔✔pumping up the male body,
muscle dysmorphia
✔✔Define health - ✔✔A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and
not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
✔✔What are examples of negotiated interpersonal experience? - ✔✔parents, partners,
children, healthcare providers
✔✔What are examples of network context? - ✔✔social support, poor/good role
modeling
✔✔Define network context - ✔✔refers to how the surrounding environment (physical
places, organizations, cultures) shapes the structure, formation, and meaning of social
ties
✔✔What is social construction of the life course? - ✔✔childhood, adolescence, young
adulthood, adulthood, later years of life
✔✔Define social health matrix - ✔✔"myriad conditions, relationships, and choices that
define matters of health, fitness, and well-being" for individuals and their intersecting
lives
✔✔What is the Multi-level Conceptual Framework For Understanding personal Health?
- ✔✔personal, interpersonal, community/organizational context, cultural/structural
context
