Question 1 : Which of the following theories argues that people's feelings and choices about how to act are based on shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions.

symbolic

interactionism

dramaturgical theory

functionalism

role theory

Question 2 : Most sociologists (and biologists) argue that race is a human invention, or is socially constructed. Which of the following statements highlights how race is socially constructed?

Race is biologically real, but society should choose to be "color-blind."

Race stems from genetic differences and occurs in other mammals as well.

Racial categories have always been fixed and remain the same in different cultures.

Racial categories on census forms have continued to change over time.

Question 3: Which of the following situations provides an example of how the social categories of gender influence the biology of sex?

parents who refuse to let their three-year-old son paint his fingernails

how people react differently to two women who hold hands in public versus two men who hold hands in public

the decision to perform sex reassignment surgery on a male infant born with a micropenis (e.g., a phallus measuring less than 2 centimeters in length) and raise the baby as a female

how a one-sex model of human bodies dominated thinking among ancient Greeks, but a two-sex model dominates current Western biological thought

Question 4 : A researcher studies the effects of gender by comparing people's experiences before undergoing sex changes and then again after their sex changes (e.g., like the Donald to Deirdre case), The researcher uses a statistical technique called individual fixed effects, which involves:

comparing outcomes to determine cause and effect.

comparing an outcome across space, in two different places.

comparing an outcome across time without altering any factors.

comparing an outcome across time as some factor changes.

Question 5 : Lou is a man who was raised as a girl. What would Amos Mac predict about how Lou will tell his life narrative? Lou will describe:

a childhood sense of living in the "wrong" body.

a "before and after" story that shifts from girl to boy.

an individualized narrative specific only to Lou.

a narrative missing many episodes due to traumatic memory loss.

Question 6: Gender structures social relationships between people unequally. This is a statement that would be supported by which group?

feminists

capitalists

teachers

the general population

Question 7  : Which at the following would be considered a positive trait or characteristic for a man within today's hegemonic masculinity?

sexual fluidity

nurturing

a love of sports

emotional sensitivity

Question 8 : Bob and Sue paint their baby's room pink as soon as they find out they are having a girl. They are beginning to provide the baby with what?

self-awareness

class markers

a deadname

her gendered identity

Question 9 : Race, birth order, generational cohort, sex, and parental wealth are key sociological variables that are said to resist fixed effects because they:

can't be changed.

don't change over time.

are constantly changing.

Are so difficult to inspect.

Question 10 : An essentialist would argue which of the following for why women outnumber men in occupations that involve caring?

Gender establishes different cultures and expectations for men and women.

Women are socialized to seek out occupations that involve caring.

Women find occupations that involve caring more suitable to their nature.

Men avoid caretaking jobs considering them "women's work".

Question 11 : By looking at anthropological findings in tribal societies, sociologists can see fluidity in gender, which helps us see that the boundaries within our own system of gender.

are biologically fixed.

may not be stable.

are emotionally guided.

are psychologically established.

Question 12 : The genetic variation that corresponds with geographic origins is much _____ than people commonly believe.

More random

more important

smaller

greater

Question 13 : Which of the following terms hinges on the belief that social and psychological traits can be traced through bloodlines and selectively bred out of (or into ) populations?

eugenics

biogenics

race relations

sociogenics

Question 14 : Which term refers to the belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal traits?

ontological equality

racism

ethnocentrism

nativism

Question 15 : The one-drop rule asserts that just "one drop" of black Hood makes a person:

biracial.

black.

possibly black, possibly white.

a slave.

Question 17 : During Darwin's time, some people believed there were several different species of humans. Darwin rejected this view, siding with the who said humans are one species.

Protestants

monogenists

polygenists

Catholics

Question 18 : An 1851 excerpt from Horper's Weekly magazine describes a certain racial group as lawbreaking, idle, thriftless, poor, and barbarian. What group is this excerpt describing?

Irish

African Americans

Italians

Jews

Question 19 : Ontological equality is the action that:

the curse of Ham makes equality today impossible

physical characteristics are markers of the soul.

ocial and biological traits can be traced through our lineage.

everyone is created equal by divine design.

Question 20 : Comte de Bution's classification schemes assumed that anyone who differed from the following group was abnormal.

American

Caucasian

European

British