Chapter 10 Worksheet
Define: Gender stratification
Master statuses
Sex vs Gender
What are the differences between primary sex characteristics and secondary sex characteristics?
What is the sociological significance of gender?
Does nature or nurture control our behavior?
What did Alice Rossi suggest with regard to women and mothering?
Chronicle the medical accident story in list form and then draw some conclusions about nature / nurture and gender.
Summarize the findings of the following studies:
1) Fraternities & testosterone
2) Prisoners & testosterone
3) Vietnam Veterans & testosterone
In all cultures, ___________________________ is the primary division between people.
How does every society sort out people into groups?
Each society gives different access to property, power, and prestige and this always favors which gender?
What statement did Gerda Lerner make about women and decision making power?
How are the gender’s social power divided in:
Hunter-gatherer societies
Horticultural societies
Define Patriarchy
Explain how patriarchy originated from early human tribes and groups.
What did the following people state about patriarchy:
Marvin Harris
Frederick Engels
Gerda Lerner
Name some historical examples of global violence against women.
Define: feminism
What are the dates and characteristics of:
a) 1st wave of women’s movement
b) 2nd wave of women’s movement
c) 3rd wave of women’s movement
Describe some gender inequalities discovered in healthcare:
Define and describe/expand on some gender inequalities in education:
- Number of women attending college over time
- % of men and women in college in each race
- Changes in professional degrees
- Gender tracking
Describe the distribution of working women in the US.
Define pay gap and describe discrepancies in pay based on characteristics.
What is the child penalty?
What is the testosterone bonus?
What is the glass ceiling?
Define sexual harassment
Discuss how sexual harassment laws extend to males, females, homosexuals, and heterosexuals.
What is the prevalence of rape in the US?
- By a stranger
- By those one may know
What are some of the attitudes that exist in prisons regarding rape and males?
What are the percentages of males vs females with regard to murder?
How have feminists brought attention to gendered violence?
Trail through the dates and accomplishments in the face of women in US politics.
Note: There is one noteable event that is missing from the book regarding 1984 in the Democratic Party – what
is this event?
Summarize the Tiwi perspective toward the elderly and the Abkhasians perspective.
Name the most important sociological principle with regard to aging.
How does industrialization affect aging around the globe?
What does the Graying of America refer to? (Give some statistics.)
Define: Life expectancy
Life span
Ageism as described by Robert Butler
How do symbolic interactionists view the aging population?
How do functionalists view the aging population?
How do conflict theorists view the aging population?
Define: Age Cohorts
Describe the following:
- Disengagement theory
- Activity theory
- Continuity theory
What are some new views of aging in the US?