Social Institutions and Gender Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
This course explores the dynamic relationship between social institutions such as family, education, religion, media, law, and the economy and gender. It examines how these institutions shape and reproduce gender norms, roles, and identities, as well as the ways in which individuals negotiate, resist, or reinforce gendered expectations within institutional contexts. Through theoretical perspectives and empirical case studies, students analyze the intersections of gender with other social categories like class, race, and sexuality, and consider the implications of institutional practices for social equity and justice. The course encourages critical thinking about power, policy, and strategies for change in relation to gender and institutional structures.
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Gender Ideas Interactions Institutions 1st Edition by Lisa Wade
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Chapter 2: Ideas
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Q1) Describing people as male-bodied or female-bodied helps capture the fact that:
A) there are biological differences in primary and secondary sexual characteristics
B) we connect to being male or female to symbols of masculinity and femininity.
C) the shape of our body may not extend to how a person feels or acts.
D) we naturalize and justify inequality.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following descriptions best conveys the meaning of the term gender binary?
A) a system with two and only two separate and distinct parts
B) the idea that there are only two types of people-male-bodied people and female-bodied people
C) the idea that there are two types of people-male-bodied people who are masculine and female-bodied people who are feminine
D) a system with masculine and feminine persons
Answer: C
Q3) If bodies are functional, but don't fit into the gender binary, is that a problem? For who, and why?
Answer: Answers will vary.
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Chapter 3: Bodies
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Q1) What is priming?
A) a test for measuring empathy
B) being reminded of a stereotype prior to taking a test
C) the tendency for men to score lower than women in empathy tests
D) writing a test response in the first person
Answer: B
Q2) Not all men have the same degree of muscularity. Which of the following explanations best describes why this is the case?
A) Some men have higher levels of testosterone than others.
B) Men's testosterone levels vary over time and across cultures.
C) Some men are more committed to exercise than others.
D) Men vary in the number of muscle fibers they are born with, the activities in which they engage, and their hormonal response to exercise.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Performance
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Q1) According to the claim that we "do gender,"
A) we do gender all the time.
B) we do gender when we interact with people of the opposite sex.
C) we do gender whenever we are being policed.
D) we do gender whenever we are consciously aware of gender-specific expectations.
Answer: A
Q2) Why are guys who dress up like women at Halloween unlikely to be victims of hate crimes?
A) Dressing up like a woman for Halloween is temporary.
B) The guys can use Halloween to account for their behavior.
C) Guys dressed up like women on Halloween are so masculine that they would never fool anyone.
D) No gender rules apply on Halloween.
Answer: B
Q3) If men and women aren't naturally opposite, then why do they act so differently so much of the time?
Answer: Answers will vary.
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Chapter 5: Intersections
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Q1) In your own words, describe each of the following gender strategies: Career Woman, Wonderful Wife and Mother, Supermom, Breadwinner, Superdad, and Blue-Collar Guy. For each strategy explain (a) what conditions and opportunities make it more likely that women or men will choose one of these strategies over the others, and (b) why choosing each strategy might be harmful for some women or men ?
Q2) If a lesbian woman who moved to France from the United States conformed to French expectations, she would
A) accentuate her lesbian identity more.
B) accentuate her lesbian identity less.
C) emphasize her race-gender intersectionality because it is more acceptable to be an immigrant than queer in France.
D) adopt a Butch lesbian identity and emphasize her masculinity
Q3) What term describes the set of actions we take to manage opportunities and constraints and affirm a valued gender identity in a specific way?
A) gender identity
B) sex positive action
C) intersectionality
D) gender strategy
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Chapter 6: Inequality, Men and Masculinities
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Q1) Sociologists Douglas Schrock and Michael Schwalbe say that "the effort to signify a masculine self . . . can be toxic." What do they mean by that? Provide examples from the chapter.
Q2) Sociologist Emily Kane found that parents of boys were ambivalent or even distressed about their sons' interest in feminine icons (such as Barbie dolls) or participation in girly activities (such as having their nails polished). This concern on the part of parents reflects A) sexism.
B) androcentrism.
C) patriarchy.
D) subordination.
Q3) Sociologist Michael Messner described how in his youth he bullied a nonathletic boy while participating in sports himself. This is an example of A) homophobia.
B) policing masculinity.
C) cheerleading masculinity.
D) heteronormativity.
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Chapter 7: Inequality: Women and Femininities
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Q1) All of the following statements are true EXCEPT
A) the strategy of emphatic sameness has limited advantages.
B) most women alternate between different gender strategies to gain empowerment.
C) a double bind is a situation in which cultural expectations are noncontradictory.
D) benevolent sexism isn't about kindness but a trap to keep women in debt to men.
Q2) A woman holds the door open for a man who is hurrying into a building behind her, he hesitates to go through it. The fact that men resist being on the receiving end of chivalry reveals that is about power and inequality, not just being nice or gentlemanly.
A) emphasized femininity
B) hegemony
C) gender equivocation
D) benevolent sexism
Q3) What is the main purpose of gender policing?
A) to challenge a patriarchal society
B) to create a benevolently sexist society
C) to promote conformity to or support for gender rules among both women and men
D) to foster chivalric behavior among men
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Chapter 8: Institutions
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Q1) The definition of norms is
A) the sets of institutions within which we live our lives.
B) the social organization of gender relations in the society. C) explicitly codified expectations, often written down with stated consequences for deviance.
D) beliefs and practices that are widely followed and culturally approved.
Q2) Wade and Ferree argue that gender is never the most logical way to organize a sport. Choose a sport that they do not discuss and consider their claim. Brainstorm a list of other variables on which athletes in this sport could reasonably be divided. Choose the one you think makes the most sense and play out the scenario. How do you think this sport would change? How would life change for the athletes? The fans? The sponsors? What ideology of gender, if any, would the sport now support?
Q3) Wade and Ferree discuss the history of basketball in the United States, showing that it was dominated by Jewish men in the first half of the 1900s. How does the concept of institution help explain why African Americans eventually came to dominate professional basketball? Likewise, how does the concept explain why men's basketball continues to outshine women's basketball?
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Chapter 9: Change
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Q1) The "cult of domesticity" refers to which of these ideas?
A) People should value domesticity over other forms of labor.
B) Women as devoted mothers and wives should make home a "heaven on Earth."
C) Women and men should have leisure at home rather than work extensive hours.
D) People should marry for love rather than for passing on property.
Q2) What does the "gendered love/sex binary" refer to?
A) Love and sex are binary aspects of relationships.
B) Sex is not only for reproduction, but for mutual affection as well.
C) The masculinization of love and feminization of sex
D) The idea that women are motivated by love and men by sex
Q3) A friend of yours argues that it is important to respect 'traditional' marriage? Why is her statement meaningless in historical perspective?
Q4) Why did enslaved Africans during the colonial period engage in premarital sex?
A) Because they had more opportunities to socialize across gender lines than whites did.
B) Because they did not restrict their own sexuality as severely as did whites.
C) Because they had more sexual desires than whites.
D) Because most could not legally marry.
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Chapter 10: Sexualities
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Q1) How do gender and age intersect in the erotic marketplace?
A) As women get older, they prefer younger men, just like men prefer younger women.
B) The average man prefers to date a women 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.
Q2) What is one way that anti-rape campaigns on college campuses frequently perpetuate rape culture instead?
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.
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Chapter 11: Families
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Q1) While men and women overwhelmingly want egalitarian relationships, the majority of men's backup plans can be described as
A) neo-traditional.
B) traditionalist.
C) authoritarian.
D) feminist.
Q2) Compare and contrast the specific meaning of the ideology of intensive motherhood and the feminization of housework. Explain how each of these concepts relate to the broader principles of sexism, androcentrism, and subordination that make the gender binary a relationship of inequality. How does the strategy of domestic outsourcing relate to them?
Q3) Which of the following is true about the second shift?
A) Single mothers are especially likely to avoid facing this specific challenge of marriage .
B) It is a gender-neutral problem facing all families, solved strategically in different ways.
C) On average, it disproportionally burdens women.
D) Generally, married couples divide housework between them on the basis of who has more time when the first shift of paid work is over.
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Chapter 12: Work
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Q1) Symbolic threat reflects
A) the realistic fear that women's entrance into a male-dominated occupation will bring down prestige and wages for everyone.
B) the possibility that any woman at a job site may feel sexually harassed and report a male employee to the boss.
C) women's frustration when men ride the glass escalator and are promoted ahead of them.
D) how men would feel if the wage gap were closed.
Q2) Use the history of the flight attendant to discuss the social construction of skill.
Q3) When psychologists asked ten- and eleven-year-olds to evaluate fake jobs, the ones that the children were told were performed mostly by men were
A) rated realistically as well-paid.
B) seen as being more sexist.
C) rated as higher status.
D) associated with skills men have more often than women.
Q4) If women now have equal protection in the workplace, why aren't they as successful as men at work?
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Chapter 13: Politics
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Q1) Which model of gender equality would be most attractive to women and men who embrace femininity?
A) equal access
B) equal value
C) equal sharing
D) equal opportunity
Q2) Which of the following is an example of how states govern gender?
A) holding elections for governors every four years
B) electing an historic number of women to legislative positions in 2013
C) collecting taxes in April of every year
D) instituting tax laws allowing married couples to keep more money than cohabitating couples
Q3) Explain the difference between the gender of governance and the governance of gender. Discuss some of the ways that the United States governs in gendered ways. Give some examples of how the gender of governance is related to the symbolic and substantive representation of women in politics in the United States or some other country?
Q4) Give concrete examples of three of the obstacles that contemporary feminists face. Discuss what it might take to overcome these obstacles and create more opportunities for feminist activism.
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