What is the relationship between policies and norms?
Select one:
a. Norms are informal, unwritten rules; policies are formal, written
rules.
b. Norms are formal, written rules; policies are informal, unwritten
rules.
c. Both norms and policies are informal, unwritten rules, but
policies have social consequences.
d. Both norms and policies are formal, written rules, but norms
are enforced by peers and policies by authorities.
Gendered institutions are interesting from a sociological point of
view because:
Select one:
a. they help challenge the gender binary system.
b. they affirm and enforce gender difference and inequality.
c. they systematically work toward the goal of a free citizenry.
d. they fail to provide a framework which makes it possible for
women to make rational decisions about their careers.
The phrase gender salience refers to:
Select one:
a. the fact that gender consistently infiltrates each part of an
institution.
b. the process of neutralizing gender in institutions.
c. the process of scientifically mapping gender in the social
structure.
d. the relevance of gender across activities and spaces within an
institution.
What is common to elementary schools, bathrooms, and
bodybuilding?
Select one:
a. They are governed more with gender policies than gender
norms.
b. They help to dismantle the matrix of domination. c. They reinforce gender difference.
d. They encourage the idea that women are equal to men.
The authors argue that sex-segregated bathrooms serve social,
not biological, functions. What does this mean?
Select one:
a. Males and females bodies are different. Because of these
differences, we need separate bathrooms.
b. There is nothing about male and female bodies that requires us
to have separate bathrooms. We have different bathrooms
because that’s what seems normal to us.
c. Women are most social than men. Women’s bathrooms were
created so they could interact with each other in a safe space.
d. Biological differences are more important than social
differences when it comes to bathrooms.
While doing research on playgrounds in elementary schools,
sociologist Barrie Thorne noticed that:
Select one:
a. teachers encouraged girls to play indoors and boys to play on
playgrounds.
b. children were seated by gender in classrooms.
c. boys’ social interactions were not influenced by gender, but
girls’ were.
d.
gender was less salient in the classroom than on the playground.
Education is a gendered institution because:
Select one:
a. it involves organizations and social norms that persist over
time.
b. it guides boys and girls into different social spaces.
c. it helps in maintaining a healthy sex ratio in society.
d. it is vital in nurturing men and women as responsible citizens.
According to Messner, what types of norms and values do boys
often learn from participating in sports?
Select one: a. They learn how to work as a team and value hard work.
b. They learn that being better than other boys is very important.
c. They learn how to lose to other boys, which will help them
navigate the hierarchy of men.
d. They learn that girls and boys are equal.
What would happen if sports were not organized by gender, but
by ability instead?
Select one:
a. We would see that women and men have equal ability and
women would win as often as men.
b. We would see that women and men have such unequal abilities
that they would still never compete against each other.
c. Beliefs in gender difference and inequality would not be
routinely and ritualistically rehearsed through sport.
d. Competitions would no longer be fair.
A study of pay in professional golfing concluded that the primary
rationale for vast differences in prize money was:
Select one:
a. institutional regulations.
b. gender.
c. differences in skill.
d. the number of viewers.
The authors argue, “organizing sports around gender protects the
idea that women are inferior athletes.” What do they mean?
Select one:
a. The authors believe that women and men’s sports should
remain separate.
b. Sex-segregated sports protect women from being hurt by men.
c. Keeping sports segregated by sex does not allow us to see if
men and women can compete together.
d. Feminists prefer sex-segregated sports so that women can
have equal opportunities.
How do the authors believe we should organize sports? Select one:
a. They believe sports should be organized by ability instead of
gender.
b. They believe that women should be able to play on men’s
teams if they are good enough, but men should not be able to
play on women’s teams.
c. They believe that sports should be organized by gender.
d. They believe that some sports (like golf) should be gender
neutral, but other sports (like football) should remain sexsegregated.
What does it mean that we do sexuality?
Select one:
a. It means learning how to be sexual with your partner.
b. It means that our sexual interactions are free and spontaneous.
c. It means that we often follow rules that prescribe the who,
what, and how of sexual intimacy.
d. It means sexual liberation and the opportunity to engage in
sexual activity if one wants.
What is the erotic marketplace?
Select one:
a. The abstract space in which goods and services are attributed
economic value.
b. The places in which people sell and buy erotic services and
goods.
c. The abstract space in which sexual goods are commodified.
d. The abstract space in which people are ranked according to
their perceived sexual desirability.
According to OKCupid data, why is men’s desirability less
dependent on his looks?
Select one:
a. Because women only respond to men with high incomes and do
not consider men’s looks. b. Because the most attractive women are less likely to receive
messages than the most attractive men.
c. Because men can offset being not-so-attractive by being funny,
smart, or rich.
d. Because on average, men tend to seek women who are more
than them.
Why would heterosexual women with high levels of success be
ranked lower in the erotic marketplace?
Select one:
a. Women escalate more slowly than men in a wide range of
valued accomplishments.
b. Women escalate faster than men in a wide range of valued
accomplishments.
c. Gendered matching rules suggest that women should be more
attractive than men.
d. Gendered matching rules suggest that men should be more
accomplished than women.
How do gender and age intersect in the erotic marketplace?
Select one:
a. As women get older, they prefer younger men, just like men
prefer younger women.
b. The average man prefers to date a woman who is younger; the
average woman reports the opposite preference.
c. The average man prefers to date women who are younger, but
as they get older the age gap he prefers shrinks.
d. Age is conflated with ugliness; this is equally true for men and
women, so as they age their erotic value approaches zero.
Which of the following is NOT true?
Select one:
a. Asian women and men are more likely to marry outside their
racial group than inside it.
b. White women are more likely to marry black men than Asian
men. c. Whites are more likely to marry Latinos than they are to marry
blacks.
d. White men are more likely to marry Asian women than black
women.
What does it mean to say that we privilege the heterosexual male
gaze?
Select one:
a. Media images are designed to appeal to sexy women.
b. Media images are designed to appeal to heterosexual women
who are attracted by the gaze.
c. Media images are designed to appeal to heterosexual men and
lesbian women.
d. Media images are designed to appeal to heterosexual men.
What is sexual objectification?
Select one:
a. It is the process by which people, especially women, are
presented as objects of desire for others.
b. It is the process by which women internalize a heterosexual
orientation.
c. It is the process by which people find someone attractive and
sexually desirable.
d. It is the process by which men define a particular object as
sexually desirable.
Self-objectification is:
Select one:
a. accepting a heterosexual orientation simply by virtue of
heteronormativity.
b. the internalization of the idea that others can be more
attractive than they are themselves.
c. a rejection of sexual subjectification and learning to love one’s
own body.
d. learning to think of oneself as an object for the pleasure of
others. Many heterosexual men are uncomfortable in gay male spaces
because:
Select one:
a. they have not internalized correctly the heterosexual female
gaze.
b. they have not internalized correctly the homosexual male gaze.
c. they are used to objectifying others, rather than being
objectified by others.
d. they are used to being objectified only by women.
What is the sexual script?
Select one:
a. specific rules that guide homosexual sexual performances
b. images designed to appeal to a hypothetical heterosexual man
c. rules that objectify others as sexually attractive
d. institutionalized rules for sexual interactions
What is one way that anti-rape campaigns on college campuses
might actually perpetuate rape culture?
Select one:
a. Rape culture is so institutionalized that it is impossible to
escape it.
b. These campaigns forget to draw attention to non-student
sexual predators.
c. College women can shame perpetrators who are fellow
students more easily than administrators can.
d. Campaigns tend to focus on what women did not do to reduce
their risk, rather than what the perpetrators did.
Which of the following statistics related to rates of orgasm is true?
Select one:
a. Women have about three times as many orgasms as men but
are reluctant to admit it.
b. Women in same-sex relationships have two to three times as
many orgasms as women in heterosexual ones.
c. Compared to men, when women masturbate they reach orgasm
much more slowly.
d. Women have more orgasms than men do in penile-vaginal intercourse.
Bystander intervention programs on college campuses are
effective in reducing rates of sexual violence, because:
Select one:
a. they teach both men and women how to intervene in specific
situations.
b. they empower the entire college community to just say no to
rape culture.
c. they teach that standing by is safer than intervening.
d. they teach women to always have a buddy with her for safety
in numbers.
Which of the following is true of the "orgasm gap"?
Select one:
a. It is much more difficult for women for achieve orgasm than
men, so women have less orgasms than men.
b. Women in same-sex relationships have fewer orgasms than
women in heterosexual relationships.
c. The orgasm gap is a result of the heterosexual sexual script
that privileges male orgasm.
d. The orgasm gap is a result of the push-and-resist dynamic.
In contemporary college hookup culture, which of the following is
true?
Select one:
a. Men neglect women’s orgasms in general.
b. Men neglect women’s orgasms in hookups.
c. Men prioritize women’s orgasms in hookups.
d. Women prioritize their own orgasms.
What does it mean to say that hook-up culture “often feels like
more than just an opportunity, but an imperative”?
Select one:
a. Hook-up culture is becoming less and less prevalent on college
campuses as young people are opting for relationships instead of
hook-ups.
b. Many young people feel pressured to engage is hook-up culture
and fear judgement by their peers if they do not. c. Hook-up culture is a myth. Young people today are having sex
at the same rates as the previous generation.
d. Hook-up culture inevitably leads to higher rates of sexual
assault.
