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SOC Final - Chapter 10
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1In arguing that we live in man-made world, Gilman is referring to the fact that:
- ASocial structures are social creations
- BThe man-made home/work divide confines women’s sphere to the home
- CMan-made labor markets are equally open to men and women
- DGender is irrelevant to the development of social structures
2Androcentric culture refers to societies that:
- APrivilege culture rather than material existence
- BEmphasize equality of opportunity
- CAffirm men’s rather than women’s interests
- DAffirm women’s rather than men’s interests
3Gilman argued that:
- AMotherhood was the noblest profession
- BWomen are especially suited to working outside the home
- CHousework should be specialized, paid labor
- DAll of the above
4Smith argues that ruling texts:
- AShape all institutional activities and social practices
- BHave only historical relevance
- CAre confined to law and government
- DDo not affect women
5The ruling texts of femininity:
- AEmphasize women’s intellectual competence
- BEmphasize women as objects
- CAre found only in fashion magazines
- DDo not affect social relationships
6Smith argues that adherence to principles of scientific objectivity:
- AIs what all sociologists should strive toward
- BEnsures greater rigor in research studies
- CExcludes women’s everyday experiences
- DIs equally attentive to women’s and men’s experiences
7Sociology, according to Smith:
- AIs knowledge written from the standpoint of men
- BIs limited in its ability to discover lived realities
- CIs entwined in the relations of ruling
- DAll of the above
8Sociology as “knowledge from within” means that the sociologist:
- AMust see and understand individuals’ experiences from within the local contexts in which they are experienced
- BCan rely on traditional ethnographic research methods to discover the realities of the socially marginalized
- CCan pay attention to lived realities independent of the institutional contexts which structure everyday realities
- DCan rely on her/his own sociological knowledge
9Bifurcated consciousness:
- AEmerges from women’s confinement to the domestic sphere
- BIs a false consciousness
- CEmerges from women’s simultaneous negotiation of the domestic and public spheres
- DUndermines a feminist consciousness
10An alternative sociology from the standpoint of women:
- ABegins with women’s particular experiences and knowledge
- BHas to be a sociology for women and men
- CAims to produce institutional change
- DAll of the above
11The research method advocated by Smith is:
- ASurvey research
- BContent analysis of ruling texts
- CInstitutional ethnography
- DOn-the-ground observation
12Hill Collins argues that a black women’s standpoint:
- ARecognizes the commonalities that structure black women’s experiences
- BIs impossible due to the diversity of black women’s experiences
- CIs more about race than gender
- DIs more about gender than race
13African-American women’s experiences of community:
- AParallel the domestic–public divide characterizing white women’s history
- BAre shaped by their history of combining family and work commitments
- CAre historically independent of white institutional practices
- DAre due to their lower-class economic status
14According to Hill Collins, controlling images of black women:
- AHave symbolic value only
- BAre devoid of power
- CAre used to justify discrimination against black women
- DAre a thing of the past
15According to Hill Collins, black feminist thought is knowledge produced by:
- ASociological theorists like Collins
- BBlack women poets and writers
- CAny black woman who expresses black women’s shared history of oppression
- DAll of the above
16Hill Collins argues that black feminist thought is:
- AAt the core of mainstream objective knowledge
- BBasically similar to white feminist thought
- CMarginal to what is defined as objective, legitimate knowledge
- DFree of political interests
17In emphasizing the social intersectionality of knowledge, Hill Collins highlights that most people’s experiences are determined by:
- AClass location and race
- BGender and race
- CClass, gender, and race
- DClass, gender, race, sexuality, and other status locations
18Activist knowledge:
- AFosters collective resistance against inequality
- BIs learned only from books
- CIs privileged in political debate
- DIs critical of narratives of individual empowerment
19In calling for “honest bodies,” Hill Collins is arguing for:
- ASocial relationships that are not controlled by any form of sexual oppression
- BThe perpetuation of gender images that objectify women’s bodies
- CThe denial of individual autonomy in sexual preferences
- DThe irrelevance of sexuality to gender and racial inequality
20Emotions:
- AReflect an individual’s natural felt state
- BAre determined by society’s feeling rules
- CAre confined to the private sphere
- DAre independent of institutional practices
21Which of the following statements most accurately applies to emotion work?
- AOnly women do emotion work
- BWomen do more emotion work than men
- CWomen are more naturally suited than men to emotion work
- DOnly women in the workforce do emotion work
22Emotional labor:
- AHas exchange value
- BProduces profit for employers
- CMust produce the right emotion in paying customers
- DAll of the above
23Hochschild argues that emotional labor:
- ADoes not interfere with an individual’s inner feelings
- BIs simply about external, display behavior
- CContributes to self-alienation
- DIs therapeutic
24Service occupations:
- ARequire a large amount of emotion work
- BAre populated disproportionately by women
- CDemonstrate the commercialization and management of feelings
- DAll of the above
25Hochschild argues that one of the consequences of women’s inequality vis-à-vis men is that:
- AWomen use emotion to enhance their professional status at work
- BMen do not display emotion in public
- CWomen are less protected than men from the emotional abuse of strangers
- DMen and women are more accepting of women’s emotional states
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