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8 Everyday Gender and Social Change Online Quiz Questions

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20 questions

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A child learns gender expectations from family, peers, and school. The process of learning these expectations is called .

True or false

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A person's bodily traits alone determine that person's gender identity and gender expression.

A
True
B
False

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In a group project, a student is expected to take notes because others assume that role suits the student's gender. Which concept best describes how the student's actions are judged against gender expectations?

A
Gender is a fixed personal trait that remains separate from social interaction.
B
Doing gender: people’s actions are interpreted and judged in relation to social expectations about gender.
C
Performativity: people can choose any gender performance without social pressure or consequences.
D
Gendered organizations: gender differences result only from formal workplace rules.

Written response

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What term does Joan Acker use for organizations whose job descriptions, promotion systems, or schedules can embed gender assumptions?

True or false

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Time-use research can help distinguish an individual household's arrangements from wider patterns in how unpaid work is distributed.

A
True
B
False

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When visible examples help widen the identities and futures people imagine, they can serve as .

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A researcher explains gender expectations by studying how children learn them from family, peers, schools, and media. Which limitation of this approach should the researcher keep in mind?

A
They focus too much on laws and workplace structures.
B
They assume that institutions never influence gender expectations.
C
They can understate power and how people resist or reinterpret expectations.
D
They treat everyday interactions as the only source of gender norms.

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A team studies how routine behavior in everyday encounters can reinforce gender expectations. Select all statements that fit an interactionist approach.

A
They examine how people enact and assess gender in everyday encounters.
B
They focus only on how laws distribute access to resources.
C
They explain how routine behavior can reproduce inequality without anyone explicitly planning it.
D
They treat gender categories as universal and fixed.

Written response

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What three-word term describes essential work such as caring for children or relatives when it is done without pay?

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A student argues that repeated social conventions make gender appear stable, even though those conventions can be altered or challenged. Which idea best fits this argument?

A
Gender is a costume that a person can put on or remove at will.
B
Repeated acts and conventions can make gender appear stable and natural.
C
Bodily traits determine a person's identity in every culture.
D
Gender norms change only when formal laws are amended.

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A community wants to reduce persistent gender inequality. Select all statements consistent with how the material describes social change.

A
Durable change often connects shifts in culture and interaction with institutional reform and material resources.
B
Changing public attitudes is always enough to change who has time, income, or authority.
C
Change can involve individual actions, community support, and movement pressure for institutional reform.
D
Once a policy changes, unequal everyday routines necessarily disappear.

True or false

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A policy that improves formal access may still leave unequal everyday routines in place.

A
True
B
False

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A study compares how gender expectations affect people differently depending on their race, class, sexuality, disability, or age. Which conclusion best reflects the material?

A
Gender expectations are identical across cultures and historical periods.
B
Gender is best understood as a collection of individual attitudes alone.
C
Other relations of power affect gender only inside workplaces.
D
Gender is shaped by relations of power that can include race, class, sexuality, disability, and age.

Open ended

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In a student project group, the same student is repeatedly expected to take notes while another student is encouraged to lead the presentation. Explain how this pattern could reflect both an everyday interactional process and a broader institutional or organizational assumption. Do not treat it as evidence of a natural difference in ability.

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A counselor is learning not to infer a person's identity or expression from their bodily traits. Which principle best supports this practice?

A
A person's sex characteristics determine their gender identity, though not necessarily their expression.
B
Sex characteristics, gender identity, and gender expression are distinct, and bodily traits alone do not determine identity or expression.
C
Gender expression determines sex characteristics, while identity is fixed by the setting.
D
Gender identity and gender expression are interchangeable terms for bodily traits.

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A researcher studies how children learn gender expectations from family, peers, and school. Which limitation of socialization and role approaches should the researcher also consider?

A
They assume that expectations are never learned from families or schools.
B
They explain institutional resource distribution but cannot describe how norms are transmitted.
C
They can understate power and people's resistance to or reinterpretation of expectations.
D
They treat all gender expectations as freely chosen individual preferences.

Written response

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A workplace designs promotion around constant availability and treats workers as if they have no family or care responsibilities. What framework term describes how gender assumptions can be embedded in workplace arrangements?

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Caring for children or relatives is necessary to daily life, but the work may be unpaid and distributed unequally. What is this kind of work called?

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In a group project, the same students are repeatedly expected to organize and take notes while others are encouraged to present. Which interpretation best fits an interactionist account of gender?

A
The group is revealing fixed differences in natural ability.
B
The interaction may be reproducing gender expectations through routine assignments and judgments.
C
The group has removed gender from its interactions by assigning different tasks.
D
The interaction shows that individuals can perform gender without social pressure or consequences.

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A student argues that Butler's theory of performativity means gender is simply a costume people can put on at will. Which response best corrects this interpretation?

A
Gender is a fixed biological fact that social conventions merely describe.
B
People can choose any identity at will without social approval or pressure.
C
Repeated acts and conventions can make gender appear stable, while repetition can also be altered to challenge norms.
D
Gender norms matter only in formal institutions, not in everyday behavior.