1-You observe children on a school playground and find some girls playing sports with boys, but almost no boys playing jump rope with girls. Why?
A-Boys are more likely to get hurt playing jump rope.
B-Children are mocked for crossing gender lines, and boys are mocked more than girls.
C-Teachers enforce gender norms and officially discourage boys from playing with girls.
D-Boys are more naturally suited for the physical competition of sports, while girls excel at the sort of cooperation that goes into activities like jump rope.
E-Parents have made sure to instruct their children to avoid any cross-gender playground activities, because they fear that it will lead to their children being labeled abnormal.
2-When parents use a sonogram to find out the sex of their baby and only start decorating the nursery after learning the sex, it is an example of:
A-gender socialization.
B-gender and language.
C-conflict theory.
D-passing.
E-feminism.
3- Whenever a math teacher writes story problems, any character with an occupation listed is male, like Bob the janitor or James the lawyer, but when women are used, they have no occupation. What is this an example of?
A-the way that schools socialize children into gender roles
B-the way that men are associated with blue-collar work
C-the role that peers play in our gender socialization
D-the way that boys are given credit for intellectual ability while girls are given credit for hard work
E-the fact that more women than men are now graduating from college
4- Homer Simpson, a character on the TV show The Simpsons, has a wife who stays home to take care of the children while he works, but he is often responsible for disciplining the children when they are particularly bad. Even if this is all that you know about the show, you know that Homer:
A-is a symbolic interactionist.
B-can be best explained by queer theory.
C-contributes to the feminization of poverty.
D-has taken the instrumental role.
E-is, by definition, sexist.
MSC:Applied
5-A woman who recently moved from New York to North Carolina had a year of probation left from a fraud conviction, but was told that North Carolina would not supervise her probation because she was guilty of "lewd and lascivious association." Specifically she lived with her boyfriend. She later said that, when she moved to North Carolina, it was the first time she had heard of:
A-cohabitation.
B-divorce.
C-noncustodial parents.
D-symbolic interactionism.
E-intentional communities.