Exam 5: Gender

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A) boys are afforded the luxury of staying in school while girls have to go to work.
B) girls' close social connections encourage them to stay in school.
C) boys are more closely supervised than girls, so they receive extra parental support.
D) girls are more likely to leave school because of pregnancy and parental pressure to marry.

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A) biological
B) feminist
C) masculine
D) symbolic interactionist

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A) most commonly prefer one child of each sex.
B) routinely prefer to have only male children.
C) show a strong preference for female children.
D) indicate no preference in the sex of their children.

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A) within the family through contact with family members.
B) without the influence of social institutions like media or religion.
C) to keep young people acting the same way as their parents.
D) only within the time frame of the preschool years.

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A) sexual and gender identities always match in adulthood.
B) the expression of identity is often a place where social change occurs.
C) sexual identity is the recognition of a biological sex category.
D) gender identity is the identification with social categories like boy or girl.

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A) the emphasis is on oppressed groups.
B) males and whites were neglected in early research on structured oppression.
C) researchers continue to avoid studying these dominant groups.
D) the same group of experts study both topics.

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A) biological
B) feminist
C) masculine
D) symbolic interactionist

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A) religion and feminism are clearly incompatible.
B) there are no organized religions in which women serve as leaders.
C) conflicts in expectations for males and females have resulted in no changes in doctrine.
D) the Islamic practice of hijab has been a source of controversy for some women.

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A) permit men more freedom in clothing choices.
B) are less strictly enforced for men than for women.
C) support a narrow cultural view of masculinity.
D) promote more bullying of women compared to bullying of men.

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A) Girls are less likely than boys to pursue careers in math and science.
B) High school boys tend to score higher than girls on math tests.
C) Girls outperform boys on nearly all standardized tests.
D) Boys are less likely than girls to take advanced math classes in high school.

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A) are more likely to mesh with women's family obligations.
B) pay much better because women are scarce in the work world.
C) require significant education and hold much prestige.
D) have lower status and lower pay.

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A) multisex
B) transsexual
C) transgender
D) gender ideation

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A) sex cannot tell us much about one's genes, but gender can.
B) gender reminds us that males and females are biological opposites.
C) sex is the more useful of the two terms.
D) gender refers to the social role based on one's categorical sex.

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A) intersex
B) supersex
C) disordered sex
D) multisex

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A) Parents provide the same toys to children regardless of whether they are girls or boys.
B) Mothers spend more time talking to daughters than they do to their sons.
C) The chores that parents assign tend to be based on the child's skill rather than sex.
D) Fathers and mothers have neutral expectations for the future careers of their children.

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A) sex identity
B) gender
C) sex selection
D) gender oppression

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