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QUESTION 11

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

         a.      feminists

         b.      teachers

         c.      the general population

         d.      capitalists

QUESTION 12

A surgeon recommends surgery to make the genitals of an intersex infant conform to an ideal of normal genitalia. A sociologist might view the doctor's recommendation as a result of

         a.      a spectrum approach to gender.

         b.      a social emergency.

         c.      medical necessity.

         d.      the belief in a binary sex system.

QUESTION 13

What is feminist philosopher Elizabeth Grosz's model for the relationship between sex and gender?

         a.      base and superstructure

         b.      Möbius strip

         c.      conductor and orchestra

         d.      character and performer

QUESTION 14

Alain’s daughter wears dresses, plays with dolls, and likes to pretend she is a princess. Alain does not think society has influenced her preferences or games at all. He views his daughter as evidence that human behavior is determined by genes and hormones. Which term best describes Alain’s views?

         a.      essentialism

         b.      dimorphism

         c.      biological determinism

         d.      the binary system

QUESTION 15

Feminists argue that gender matters because

         a.      it structures social relations between people.

         b.      it is the basis of sex role theory.

         c.      there are roles for which men are better suited and other roles for which women are better suited.

         d.      it emphasizes natural differences that exist between men and women.

Answer 1

Answer is A) Feminists

Feminists are those people who belive in Feminism,an ideology that there should be equality between the sexes in all spheres.The reason its called Feminism is because they believe historically women have been denied empowerment and a chance to be equal to men.

2 Answer is D) the belief in a binary sex system.

Intersex is category of people who anatomically don't belong to the either of a typical female or male. The common belief that there are only two categories in which everone should fit - female an male.This leads to many medical practitioners perform surgery on an infants to modify their genetilia

3 Answer is B) Mobius strip

Mobius Strip is any figure which is unorientable.it is a one sided figure with no boundaries.Elizabeth Grosz compared the relationship between sex and gender to a mobius strip because she believed that although one is biologically determined and the other is socially determined, they are ultimately the same and cannot be seperated.

4.Answer is C) biological determinism

Biological Determinism is the belief that behaviour is caused by physiological and genetic factors.

5 Answer is A) it structures social relations between people.

Social Structure are the beliefs, attitudes, behaviour and perception that are held by society.Social structures affect the individual and vice versa. Gender is also believed to one such factor which is effected or is defined by social structure. While biology determines sex, the behaviour, perception and beliefs surrounding a sex are part of the social structure.