Deck 6: Gender in Adulthood and Late Life

Question 1

What is the basis for the association of such rites of passage as high school completion, finding full-time employment, getting married, and having children with the stage of life known as "adulthood"?

A) biology
B) the social-cultural world
C) individually based
D) gender based

Answer 1

the social-cultural world

Question 2

What kind of role did gender play what it came to cases involving the refusal of blood transfusions by Jehovah's Witness youth, according to Lori Beaman's (2000) research on religious freedom and "age of consent"?

A) imperceptible
B) insignificant
C) noticeable but not significant
D) very significant

Answer 2

very significant

Question 3

As theorized by Rebecca Johnson (2000), actions that resist or otherwise go against the status quo are called _________________.

A) subversive acts
B) counter-hegemonic acts
C) counter-intuitive acts
D) radical acts

Answer 3

counter-hegemonic acts

Question 4

Gary Kinsman argues that in mainstream society, masculinity is generally associated with _______________.

A) Heterosexuality
B) Dominance
C) Muscularity
D) Normalcy

Question 5

In their research on the construction of "erectile dysfunction", Marshall and Katz (2002) critically examine the ________________________ of penile erectile dysfunction.

A) medical construction
B) biological problem
C) psychological consequences
D) groundbreaking treatments

Question 6

In their research on the construction of "erectile dysfunction", Marshall and Katz argue that the visible indication of "interior character and successful living" in the adult male is generally the ___________________.

A) muscular upper body
B) functional penis
C) ability to shed tears
D) stiff upper lip

Question 7

Research indicates that having children generally has a __________________ effect on a couple's relationship.

A) Positive
B) Neutral
C) Negative
D) Contradictory

Question 8

Rosemary Gillespie (2003) interrogates the relationship between feminine gender identity and ___________________in industrial society.

A) Motherhood
B) Single-hood
C) Couple-hood
D) Heterosexuality

Question 9

Wachholz explores the core assumption that motherhood is a natural, desired and ultimate goal for most women. This assumption is referred to as the _____________ of motherhood.

A) hegemony
B) ideology
C) tragedy
D) inevitability

Question 10

A great deal of research has indicated that upon relationship break-up, women's standard of living ______________ and men's ________________.

A) goes up, goes down
B) goes down, goes up
C) stays the same, goes up
D) goes down, stays the same

Question 11

It is suggested in the text that to be engaged in a continuous effort to look young is to risk waging a war against __________________.

A) One's self
B) One's gender
C) The beauty industry
D) One's parents

Question 12

The term that Bernard et al. (1995) use in reference to the age after which women -in particular-are less likely to be hired or promoted is:

A) double jeopardy
B) revolving door
C) glass ceiling of age
D) fading window of opportunity

Question 13

Research suggests that inequities that women experience throughout their life typically _____________ with age.

A) worsen
B) lessen
C) remain constant
D) compared with men, lessen slightly

Question 14

What is the term for age based on physical changes?

A) chronological age
B) social age
C) physiological age
D) lived age

Question 15

The social constructions and social experiences that are attached to the physiological and chronological realities of getting older are related to a person's __________ age.

A) real
B) psychological
C) social
D) existential

Question 16

What is the most significant change in aging patterns in Canada over the last 100 years?

A) enhanced physical appearance
B) increased life expectancy
C) decreased quality of life
D) intensified gender polarization in later life

Question 17

The term which refers to the imbalance of old women vs. old men is the gender based_________ differential.

A) chronology
B) physiology
C) mortality
D) morality

Question 18

In Canada today, women typically outlive men by approximately ___ years.

A) 1
B) 5
C) 10
D) 12

Question 19

A definitive departure from the paid workplace is known as a_____________.

A) blurred exit
B) crisp exit
C) role exit
D) sudden exit

Question 20

Many contemporary researchers use this term in reference to the strong practical and social networks within which many widowed women now participate.

A) society of women
B) society of widows
C) widow network society
D) the 'new' bachelorettes

Question 21

How do Gillespie's research findings on women who remain childfree by choice challenge the "ideology of motherhood"?

Question 22

Based on your gender, what can you expect to be more likely to happen to you as you grow chronologically and physiologically older? Draw upon current research that is cited in the text.

Question 23

What is the difference between social age and chronological age? How do your own social and chronological ages differ?

Question 24

What does current research suggest about widows in Canada today?

Question 25

What can we learn about widowers' experience from van den Hoonaard's guest essay? .

Question 26

Conduct a content analysis of 5 prime-time television shows, attending to the relationship between gender, appearance, social power, and age/aging.

Question 27

Develop an essay which critically examines present differences in "aging" across the gender line, drawing upon current research in Canada. Consider what broad social changes would need to take place to alter how we collectively think about, and orient to, older women vs. older men.

Question 28

Write a research essay that explains the basis for the mortality differential between women and men, focusing upon contemporary Canadian society. Based on this, what do you predict for the future?