Sociology 111 Final Exam Prep Questions
with Correct Answers
What is sexism? - Answer- belief that one sex is innately superior to the other
What are the costs of sexism? - Answer- - stunts and limits talents and ambitions of
women
-privileges to men come at a high price (hush risk behaviours such as driving fast;
masculinity linked to high suicide and violence; loss in intimacy and trust because men
are so much about domination and control)
What is an example of a women's "second shift" - Answer- housework
Where are the largest proportion of women politicians found? - Answer- municipal area
What percentage of women are subject to violence by their intimate partners? - Answer-
25%
Define sexual harassment. - Answer- Comments, gestures, or physical contact of a
sexual nature that are deliberate, repeated, and unwelcome
Define porn - Answer- Dehumanizes women depicting them as play things to men
Describe the structural functional analysis. Who was apart of it? - Answer- Gender
difference helps integrate society
Parksons: believed men and women have complementary traits by socialization
ex. boys:rational/competitive & girls: responsive/emotional
*these complement one another and don't overlap
What was the critical review of Parsons structural functional analysis? - Answer- It
ignores that man women have worked outside of the home because of economic need
ignores personal strains to social costs of rigid, traditional gender roles
"complementarity" suggests tat women ought to submit to male domination
, what is the symbolic interaction analysis? - Answer- Sex roles define the way a society
expects women and men to think and behave
gender plays a part in shaping almost all of our everyday experiences
What was the critique of the symbolic interaction analysis? - Answer- It says little about
the broad patterns of inequality that 'set the rules'
What is the social-conflict analysis? - Answer- Friedrich Engels: gender and class
- men gained power over women as the productive
technology advanced
- private property contributed to male domination
- capitalism makes male domination even stronger
critical review of social conflict approach? - Answer- regards conventional families as a
social evil
minimizes extent to which women and men live together co-operatively and in happy
families
agrarian societies are typically more patriarchal than industrial-capitalist societies
What is the activist approach? - Answer- A feminist theory that sees inequality as a
systemic wrong that must be challenged
List the 4 types of feminism - Answer- 1) Liberal
2 Socialist Feminism
3) radical feminism
4) cultural
What is the liberal feminist approach? - Answer- - Freedom to develop talents and
interests
- more mainstream
- getting rid of discrimination
What is a socialist feminists view? - Answer- - pursue collective (male & female) social
revolution with a state centered
Explain radical feminism? - Answer- - Revolution for an egalitarian (equal), gender-free
society
Define cultural feminist approach. - Answer- - Rejects privileged white middle-class
feminism that ignores others
with Correct Answers
What is sexism? - Answer- belief that one sex is innately superior to the other
What are the costs of sexism? - Answer- - stunts and limits talents and ambitions of
women
-privileges to men come at a high price (hush risk behaviours such as driving fast;
masculinity linked to high suicide and violence; loss in intimacy and trust because men
are so much about domination and control)
What is an example of a women's "second shift" - Answer- housework
Where are the largest proportion of women politicians found? - Answer- municipal area
What percentage of women are subject to violence by their intimate partners? - Answer-
25%
Define sexual harassment. - Answer- Comments, gestures, or physical contact of a
sexual nature that are deliberate, repeated, and unwelcome
Define porn - Answer- Dehumanizes women depicting them as play things to men
Describe the structural functional analysis. Who was apart of it? - Answer- Gender
difference helps integrate society
Parksons: believed men and women have complementary traits by socialization
ex. boys:rational/competitive & girls: responsive/emotional
*these complement one another and don't overlap
What was the critical review of Parsons structural functional analysis? - Answer- It
ignores that man women have worked outside of the home because of economic need
ignores personal strains to social costs of rigid, traditional gender roles
"complementarity" suggests tat women ought to submit to male domination
, what is the symbolic interaction analysis? - Answer- Sex roles define the way a society
expects women and men to think and behave
gender plays a part in shaping almost all of our everyday experiences
What was the critique of the symbolic interaction analysis? - Answer- It says little about
the broad patterns of inequality that 'set the rules'
What is the social-conflict analysis? - Answer- Friedrich Engels: gender and class
- men gained power over women as the productive
technology advanced
- private property contributed to male domination
- capitalism makes male domination even stronger
critical review of social conflict approach? - Answer- regards conventional families as a
social evil
minimizes extent to which women and men live together co-operatively and in happy
families
agrarian societies are typically more patriarchal than industrial-capitalist societies
What is the activist approach? - Answer- A feminist theory that sees inequality as a
systemic wrong that must be challenged
List the 4 types of feminism - Answer- 1) Liberal
2 Socialist Feminism
3) radical feminism
4) cultural
What is the liberal feminist approach? - Answer- - Freedom to develop talents and
interests
- more mainstream
- getting rid of discrimination
What is a socialist feminists view? - Answer- - pursue collective (male & female) social
revolution with a state centered
Explain radical feminism? - Answer- - Revolution for an egalitarian (equal), gender-free
society
Define cultural feminist approach. - Answer- - Rejects privileged white middle-class
feminism that ignores others
