Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Gender is a relational concept because masculinity and femininity make sense in relation to one another.
2. The thinness valued as desirable and beautiful in American culture has always been the standard for attractiveness in that culture.
3. The Industrial Revolution led to the redefinition of masculinity and femininity.
4. Different cultures have different gendered expectations than Western society does.
5. The standard practice today for intersex infants is to give them normalizing surgery so their genitalia are consistently male or female.
1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. TRUE
5. FALSE
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a. formal schooling and then college. b. what parents and other community members teach their children. c. what children can teach themselves. d. teaching by religious leaders.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
______ is an assumption that every person is heterosexual, legitimizing heterosexuality as the only normal lifestyle and marginalizing persons who do not identify as heterosexual.
A. Homophobia B. Heterosexism C. Heterophobia D. Xenophobia
To what do Douglas McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y refer?
A) how men’s and women’s X and Y chromosomes influence their work aptitudes, preferences, and abilities B) how workplace conditions and productivity vary in accordance with the assumption that people naturally like or dislike work C) competing strategies used by management to produce values and emotions that bind workers to the company D) the relationship of workplace productivity to the type of pay (e.g., hourly wage, piecework rate, stipend, salary, etc.)