Gender and Society: Chapter 4 Quiz PDF

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This is the Gender and Society coursework taught by Professor Karen Gregg at IUPUI. Correct answers are bolded. If not bolded, that means the answer was incorrect. Note that some quizzes may not have the same questions or be in the same order....

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NOTE: Correct answers are bolded. No bold means answer was wrong.

1. (Q003) How does one "do gender" in society? a. Doing gender means that we actively obey, and do not break, gender

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rules. b. Doing gender means that we passively obey, and also break, gender rules. c. Doing gender means that we actively obey, and also break, gender rules. d. Doing gender means that we actively break gender rules and do not obey any of them. (Q025) A preschooler who told a classmate that "everybody has a penis but only girls wear barrettes" was a. offering an account for breaking a gender rule. b. revealing how little he knew about biology’s effects on behavior. c. showing how kids can say the silliest things. d. revealing how meaningful gender performance is, no matter what body someone has. (Q021) Which of the following statements is TRUE of gender policing? a. Gender policing is only problematic when it is done violently. b. Gender policing is less influential if it comes from someone you care for (like your girlfriend or boyfriend). c. We cannot police ourselves, so we police others. d. We police ourselves and others, and even recruit others to help us police ourselves. (Q005) In Belgium, the color pink is seen as a color for boys, while in the United States, the color pink is seen as a color for girls. The different views of pink show how there can be __________ in gender rules. a. cross-cultural variation b. historical variation c. gender accounts d. gender policing (Q011) According to the authors of your textbook, American men usually don’t deliberate about whether to pee sitting down or standing up. This is an example of a. how gender rules become internalized as habits. b. how gender rules are learned over an entire lifetime. c. how gender rules in the United States are unfair to women. d. how following gender rules can be a source of pleasure. (Q024) What is one reason why individuals break gender rules? a. Gender rules serve no purpose in contemporary society. b. Breaking gender rules is considered so minor that it never comes with any significant social costs. c. Gender rules are no longer policed within society.

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wrong. 7. (Q012) Many women enjoy dressing up, dancing, and flirting at a club. This is an example of a. how gender rules become internalized as habits. b. how gender rules in the United States are unfair to women. c. how gender rules reflect biological predispositions. d. how following gender rules can be a source of pleasure. 8. (Q017) The way that children do gender is a. increasingly inflexible as they learn increasing numbers of rules about doing gender correctly. b. more flexible and less binary than their parents typically expect. c. a reflection of greater biological predispositions toward fashion and nurturance among girls and for guns and trucks among boys, which most parents have to acknowledge. d. more rigid and binary than the way adults do gender because they are still learning the rules in all their complexity. 9. (Q019) Which one of the following statements best describes the claims of the learning model of socialization? a. Socialization is a lifelong process of learning and relearning gendered expectations and how to negotiate them. b. Socialization is a learning process in childhood that fits us to our particular culture and which we then use for the rest of our lives. c. The children who learn how to do gender well at home won’t need to try as hard to learn the gender rules once they enter school. d. Playing with Barbies and baby dolls or trucks and guns as a child will have lifelong effects on the way the child will do gender as an adult. 10. (Q018) The injection idea of socialization fails to explain how people learn to do gender because a. socialization is finished by the time we are adults. b. it assumes there is one coherent set of gender rules that children learn and apply throughout their lives. c. it suggests that people change gender rules, but gender rules do not change over time in a society. d. it does not account for the innate biological differences between males and females....