ANTH 1000 FINAL QUIZ 18 SEX AND GENDER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Why should the numbers from Kinsey's research be considered merely illustrative, rather than
statistically accurate?
a. a reliance on nonrandom samples
b. incorrect assignment of causation
c. failure to account for variance in the target population
d. sample sizes that were too small
e. flaws in the statistical models used - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a. a reliance on nonrandom samples
More than half the poor children living in the United States live in families that are
a. headed by women.
d. dichotomized.
c. blended.
d. patrifocal.
e. headed by men. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a. headed by women.
In which type of society would you expect women's status to be highest?
a. pastoralists
b. agriculturalists
c. hunters and gatherers
d. societies where there is a great deal of population pressure
e. industrial states with high unemployment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅c. hunters and gatherers
With the term sex, anthropologists are referring to biological differences. In contrast, they define gender
as
, a. the marked differences in male and female biology, which vary across cultures.
b. the tasks and activities that a culture assigns to each sex.
c. one's biological identity.
d. a political system ruled by men that defines the identity of women.
e. the cultural construction of whether one is female, male, or something else. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅e. the cultural construction of whether one is female, male, or something else.
Recent cross-cultural studies of gender roles demonstrate that
a. the gender roles of men and women are largely determined by their biological capabilities—relative
strength, endurance, intelligence, and so on.
b. foraging, horticultural, pastoral, and industrial societies all have similar attitudes toward sex but
different attitudes toward gender.
c. changes in the gender roles of men and women are usually associated with social decay and anarchy.
d. the relative status of women is variable, depending on such factors as the type of subsistence strategy
employed, and the importance of warfare.
e. women are subservient in nearly all societies, because their subsistence activities contribute much
less to the total diet than do those of men. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅d. the relative status of women is
variable, depending on such factors as the type of subsistence strategy employed, and the importance
of warfare.
Transgender is a social category that
a. has no validity within the social sciences.
b. always contrasts biologically with "ordinary" males and females.
c. includes people whose gender identity has no apparent biological roots.
d. is entirely biologically constructed.
e. consists of only intersex people. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅c. includes people whose gender identity
has no apparent biological roots.
ANSWERS
Why should the numbers from Kinsey's research be considered merely illustrative, rather than
statistically accurate?
a. a reliance on nonrandom samples
b. incorrect assignment of causation
c. failure to account for variance in the target population
d. sample sizes that were too small
e. flaws in the statistical models used - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a. a reliance on nonrandom samples
More than half the poor children living in the United States live in families that are
a. headed by women.
d. dichotomized.
c. blended.
d. patrifocal.
e. headed by men. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a. headed by women.
In which type of society would you expect women's status to be highest?
a. pastoralists
b. agriculturalists
c. hunters and gatherers
d. societies where there is a great deal of population pressure
e. industrial states with high unemployment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅c. hunters and gatherers
With the term sex, anthropologists are referring to biological differences. In contrast, they define gender
as
, a. the marked differences in male and female biology, which vary across cultures.
b. the tasks and activities that a culture assigns to each sex.
c. one's biological identity.
d. a political system ruled by men that defines the identity of women.
e. the cultural construction of whether one is female, male, or something else. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅e. the cultural construction of whether one is female, male, or something else.
Recent cross-cultural studies of gender roles demonstrate that
a. the gender roles of men and women are largely determined by their biological capabilities—relative
strength, endurance, intelligence, and so on.
b. foraging, horticultural, pastoral, and industrial societies all have similar attitudes toward sex but
different attitudes toward gender.
c. changes in the gender roles of men and women are usually associated with social decay and anarchy.
d. the relative status of women is variable, depending on such factors as the type of subsistence strategy
employed, and the importance of warfare.
e. women are subservient in nearly all societies, because their subsistence activities contribute much
less to the total diet than do those of men. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅d. the relative status of women is
variable, depending on such factors as the type of subsistence strategy employed, and the importance
of warfare.
Transgender is a social category that
a. has no validity within the social sciences.
b. always contrasts biologically with "ordinary" males and females.
c. includes people whose gender identity has no apparent biological roots.
d. is entirely biologically constructed.
e. consists of only intersex people. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅c. includes people whose gender identity
has no apparent biological roots.
