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Gender Issues Exam 1 (1)
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Gender Issues Exam 1gender - correct answer-the behaviors and appearances society dictates a body of a
particular sex should perform, structures people's understanding of themselves and each
other. Communication is the process by which this happens. It's present in an individuals
gender performance and in other messages that create, sustain or challenge gender
expectations. "do gender"
identity - correct answer-refers to how people see themselves as individuals and as
members of a group and how others see them as individuals and as members of a group.
Includes personality and race, class, gender roles etc
Androgyny - correct answer-combining qualities of male and female
Binary - correct answer-only one choice or another
Genderqueer - correct answer-gender free, gender neutral, claiming an identity outside
gender. not saying male or female
why use "gender/sex" - correct answer-emphasize interrelation between the concepts of
gender and sex. recognize that people experience their gender and sex together and they
are both socially constructed and difficult to change
Gender Fluidity - correct answer-not limited to the two binary options. people who cross the
culturally constructed sex and gender lines. recognize gender diversity
Race - correct answer-how groups of ppl are socially categorized. primary social category
used to identify people people in terms of ancestry or genetics. it is socially constructed
mantling that has real consequences
Ethnicity - correct answer-contested term. commonly used to refer to a group of people who
share a cultural history even though they may no longer live in the same geographic area.
Objective Worldview and method researcher uses - correct answer-Scientific(Biological): see
truth as existing prior to researchers efforts
see truth as discoverable. laboratory experiments and surveys
Interpretive Worldview and method researchers use - correct answer-Humanistic(Cultural):
see knowledge as subjective. perceptions of the people play an active role in the creation of
what they come to see as truth. Qualitative methods such as interviews, ethnography, field
observation
Biological Theories - correct answer-gender as biologically tied to sex and distinctive
hormones, brain structures, and genitalia typify each sex
, Psychological Theories - correct answer-Emphasize the internal psychological processes
triggered by early childhood experiences with ones body and interpersonal interactions with
primary caregivers and close contacts
Critical/Cultural Theories - correct answer-Emphasize the role broad cultural institutions and
norms play in the construction and maintenance of gender
Psychoanalytic Theories - correct answer-(psychological) call attention to how unconscious
thoughts and memories influence a person's identity, actions and beliefs , sigmund freud,
Nancy Chodorow
Social Learning Theory - correct answer-Walter Michael and modified by Albert Bandura.
posits gender is a learned behavior, learned by observing, analyzing and modeling others.
when its modeled correctly it is rewarded, incorrectly it is punished
Cognitive Development Theory - correct answer-seeks to explain human behavior by
understanding the development of identity as a process that goes through stages
Biological Determinism - correct answer-Lawrence and Carol The idea that biology(sex)
determines gender differences
Culture - correct answer-learned patterns of behavior and attitudes shared by a group of
people
Social Reality - correct answer-really understood through the symbols humans used to
represent it
Patriarchy - correct answer-hierarchical system that that exercises hegemonic control
wherein men are privileged over women women. and some men are privileged over other
men
Queer Theory - correct answer-the process by which people have made a dissident sexuality
articulate
critiques the categories used to understand gender, sex, and sexuality as part of the very
hierarchies that maintain privilege for some groups over others. Language that names those
outside binaries
Conversation - correct answer-is the process of two or more parties working interactively to
create meanings through the exchange of verbal and nonverbal cues within a given context
Conversation at work - correct answer-makes clear that the intent, effort and some degree of
cooperation are required in the seemingly easy process of talking-to others
identity work - correct answer-through conversation by presenting to themselves and to
others who they are at a given time and negotiating that identity with their conversational
partner
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