Week 11 Quiz

An illustrative clinic form lists four entries about one person. Which entry describes the person's sex rather than gender?

Select one.

• A lab result reporting the person's hormone levels
• A family's expectation that the person will cook for guests
• A coworker's comment that the person seems too gentle to lead
• A school rule about which clothes the person may wear

Which piece of evidence best supports the claim that gender is socially constructed?

Select one.

• Men and women differ, on average, in some hormone levels
• Most people learn their gender expectations in early childhood
• Who does which work differs across cultures and over time
• Some people feel strongly that their gender expectations are natural

On a teen's social feed, ads for cleaning products show only women and ads for power tools show only men. Which agent of socialization is teaching a gender lesson here?

Select one.

• The family, because it teaches the first norms a child learns
• The media, because it shows what is expected of women and men
• The school, because it teaches a hidden curriculum about behavior
• The workplace, because it teaches adults the norms of a job

West and Zimmerman (1987) argued that gender is something people do. A classmate concludes, "Then I can stop doing gender whenever I like." What does the classmate miss?

Select one.

• That gender is fixed at birth and cannot be changed in any way
• That doing gender happens only on stage and in performances
• That the argument applies to men and does not apply to women
• That doing gender happens in interaction, where others notice and respond

Which statements correctly describe patriarchy and the gender order as sociologists use the terms? Select all that apply.

Select every option that applies.

• Patriarchy describes a system in which men as a group hold more power and resources than women as a group
• The gender order is the society-wide pattern of who tends to do which work and hold which positions
• Patriarchy describes the private attitudes of one particular man toward one particular woman
• The gender order describes the personal preferences of each individual worker

True or false: Because attraction is felt by one person, sociologists treat sexuality only as a private experience that lies outside the study of society.

True or false.

• True
• False

Which perspective reads traditional gender roles as complementary roles, different but matching duties that help the family run?

Select one.

• Conflict theory, joined by feminist theory (macro)
• Structural functionalism (macro)
• Symbolic interactionism (micro)
• Doing gender, as a theory of the gender order (macro)

An illustrative school dress code bans tank tops and short skirts. Which reading uses symbolic interactionism, and at what level of analysis?

Select one.

• The code keeps order by giving every student clear expectations, at the macro level
• The code falls more heavily on girls and protects the power of the adults who wrote it, at the macro level
• A hallway moment over a strap teaches a student what her body is supposed to mean, at the micro level
• The code shows that sex and gender are the same thing, at the micro level

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings that were 83% of men's in 2024. Which conclusion can you draw from that raw ratio alone?

Select one.

• Women are paid 83 cents for every dollar a man earns in the same job
• The gap has been proven to result from discrimination by employers
• The gap is fully explained by the occupations women and men choose
• It describes a gap in median weekly earnings across all full-time jobs, not a cause

The women's-to-men's earnings ratio for full-time wage and salary workers was 62% in 1979 and 83% in 2024 (Bureau of Labor Statistics). How should the change be described?

Select one.

• A rise of 21 percentage points
• A rise of 21 percent
• A rise of 17 percentage points
• A rise of 33.9 percentage points