Deck 27: Gender As Structure

Question 1

Theoretical perspectives within the gendered selves tradition all share the assumption that ______.

A) contextual issues recreate inequality during interaction
B) social structure creates gendered behavior
C) gender itself is built in to social life
D) maleness and femaleness are properties of individuals

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which theory is commonly accepted among many sex-role theorists?

A) reinforcement theory
B) stratification theory
C) classical theory
D) structure theory

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which term is central to sex-role theory?

A) institutionalization
B) personality
C) culture
D) structure

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The author considers herself a(n) ______.

A) structuralist
B) psychoanalyst
C) socialist
D) interactionist

Question 5

Much of the research on structural perspective has focused on ______.

A) workplace behavior
B) parenting styles
C) marital relationships
D) birth order

Question 6

Doing gender requires______.

A) constraining social expectations
B) eradicating male dominance
C) trivializing discourse
D) legitimating inequality

Question 7

Which statement reflects a weakness in the doing-gender approach?

A) It does not take into account interactional contexts.
B) It does not address the pervasiveness of gender inequality in organizations.
C) It does not consider gender as something we do.
D) It does not include the effect of self-fulfilling prophecies.

Question 8

The author argues that many theories about gender focus on ______.

A) institutional design
B) ideological expectations
C) interactional pressures
D) individual choice

Question 9

West and Zimmerman articulated an insight whose time had come-that gender is ______.

A) something that we do
B) what we are
C) something forced upon us
D) who we love

Question 10

All of the following are examples of gender stratification at the institutional level except the ______.

A) distribution of material resources
B) ways in which formal organization are gendered
C) beliefs acquired during socialization
D) gendered ideological discourse

Question 11

Define gender stratification.

Question 12

Briefly describe how the feminist psy?choanalytic approach explains the development of gendered personalities.

Question 13

Briefly describe three consequences of gender stratification.

Question 14

Identify two ways the influence of gendered institutions and interactional contexts are organized by gender stratification at the institutional level.

Question 15

Provide one example of a structural influence on gender.