Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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The
textbook chapter on sex, gender roles, gender identities, and sex roles is most directly concerned
with which of the following controversies?
a. | the group versus the individual | b. | the society
versus the culture | c. | technology versus the individual | d. | heredity versus
the social environment | | |
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African-American males tend to be viewed perhaps being ____ to each other in terms of
expressiveness and competence than are non-Hispanic whites.
a. | equal | b. | more similar | c. | more
dissimilar | d. | mush more dissimilar | | |
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We
tend to have stereotypes about all of the following except which one?
a. | middle-class
white women | b. | gays | c. | elderly males | d. | none: we have
stereotypes about all of the above | | |
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Which
of the following is false regarding masculinities and femininities as cultural messages?
a. | Cultural
messages deliver several possible masculinities and femininities as cultural
messages. | b. | Cultural messages about males tend to be more specific and
varied than are cultural messages about females. | c. | Cultural
messages about masculinities and femininities lead to confusion and ambiguity in the socialization
process. | d. | none of the above | | |
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Acting according to cultural expectations may be:
a. | conditional | b. | situational | c. | future-oriented | d. | dramaturgical | | |
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Which
of these is not one of the one of the areas noted by the textbook as characterized by a high degree
of male dominance?
a. | the medical institutions | b. | the religious
institutions | c. | the economic institutions | d. | the political
institutions | | |
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Approximately _____ of U.S. Roman Catholics believe that women priests in the Roman
Catholic church think that women priests "would be a good thing".
a. | one-tenth | b. | one-fourth | c. | one-half | d. | two-thirds | | |
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Although in no age category are earnings equal between men and women, among women it
is the _____ women who earn a larger proportion of what men earn.
a. | younger | b. | older | c. | widowed or
divorced | d. | Hispanic | | |
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Which
of the following is consistent with what the textbook says about those having the highest probability
of disapproving of women priests?
a. | Father Anthony, who was married and divorced before entering
seminary. | b. | Bishop Friedlund, who has written several books about the
Church’s social obligations | c. | Paul, age 8, who gets good grades in science, language, and
lives with his divorced father | d. | Judie, age 28, who works in her husband’s office and,
unpaid, is totally responsible for keeping al business financial records. | | |
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Money
and Ehrhardt found that the most crucial factor in hermaphrodite infants' ultimate perception of
themselves as boys or girls, and later as men or women, was:
a. | the sex of the
physician responsible for the medical care of the infant | b. | whether the
parents lived in predominantly rural or predominantly urban area | c. | educational
level of parents | d. | assignment | | |
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