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Questions
1. When people act in a social encounter in a manner that is consistent with the societal expectations placed upon members of their sex category they are doing gender. This means that gender is:
an important part of an individual's personality
an interactional accomplishment
inborn or innate
resistant to social change
unrelated to social norms and other components of society
2. Social structure and personality is the most macro face of social psychology.
True
False
3. Social facts shape people's perceptions and behaviors. They are, however, exterior to any given individual. This means that social facts:
are micro-level phenomena
are not affected by any one person's actions
are not created by people
can never be altered
cannot penetrate people's minds
4. Sociologists use the term constraint to refer to the:
barriers that individuals create when they buy into dominant cultural beliefs
effect of society on people's perceptions, feelings, and behaviors
intersection between biology and society
relationship between biological drives and response outcomes
social processes through which people impose order on others' lives
5. Gender reflects:
biological differences between males and females
consistent and stable differences in thought and action associated with being male or female
how males and females are perceived within a given society
innate characteristics expressed in socially acceptable ways
social categories determined by the intersection of genetic, neurochemical, and societal factors
6. _________ tell people within a given society how to, and how not to, behave.
Beliefs
Norms
Perpetuators
Statuses
Values
7. ____________________ is an orienting concept that sensitizes social psychologists, to the fact that statuses such as class, race/ethnicity, and gender do not necessarily operate independent of one another.
Bifurcation
Compellation
Intersectionality
Segmentation
Triangulation
8. Symbolic interactionism is the face of sociological social psychology that emphasizes the effects of social norms and other social facts on people's perceptions and behaviors.
True
False
9. Race and gender are:
based on agreed upon definitions that are consistent over time and across societies
biologically based categorizations that influence people's social relationships
considered general psychological constructs because they exist in every society
of interest only to sociological social psychologists working within social structure and personality
socially constructed, in that they are produced through social interaction and are subject to change
10. What do gender and race have in common?
How they are defined does not change over time
How they are defined is consistent across cultures
are biologically based
They are socially constructed
Both a and b
11. A study of how the experiences of highly educated Black women differ from those of other groups within society illustrates the application of which of the following concepts?
Ethnicity
Integration
Intersectionality
Status compilation
Status generalization
12. Race is a social, not a biological, construct.
True
False
13. The different sociological social psychologies emerged in succession, with each "new" face replacing the one that came before it. Thus, there is one dominant face of sociological social psychology that governs current research in the field.
True
False
14. The group processes and structure face of sociological social psychology includes research on gender bias in task groups.
True
False
15. Social norms tell us what is good or bad but have little effect on behavior.
True
False
16. Agency is the term sociologists use to refer to the:
capacity of individuals to resist broader social forces and act in a self-directed manner
conflict between the individual and society
the flow of resources within and across social relationships
the social mechanisms that make society stable and prevent social change
the process through which people broker transactions with others