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Critics argue that sex role theory ______.

A) undermines the traditional division of labor by encouraging women to find employment in the paid labor market
B) reinforces gender inequality by adhering to assumptions about behaviors that allowed society to function most effectively
C) inadequately addresses the Hobbesian question, "How is society possible?"
D) is objective science

E) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

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Which of the following describes the limitations of the perspective with which male sociologists studied gender in the early years of the discipline?

A) They assumed the concepts they studied described everyone's experiences.
B) They asserted that industrialization and urbanization were more important issues to study.
C) They wrote that spread of capitalism did not affect women.
D) They felt that women were inferior to men.

E) C) and D)
F) None of the above

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Women's social networks tend to consist of more ______, while men's networks are made up of more ______.

The tendency to interact in networks of people similar to you is known as ______.

The first-wave feminist movement focused on the right to vote.

The enactment of gender is deeply situational and contextual.

Men who receive the benefits of patriarchy without enacting a strong version of masculine dominance are said to be engaging in ______.

The institutional approach locates gender metaphorically in the space between people.

Karl Marx is widely regarded as one of the founders of gender theory.

Which of the following terms refers to the tendency of individuals to focus on information that validates our preexisting beliefs?

______ is the concept that refers to the social structures of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation which work with and through each other so that individuals experience the categories differently depending on their social location.

Sex role theory asserts that sex roles are built upon and reinforced by biological differences. This is an ______-level approach to gender.

Women's networks have more ties to nonkin than those of men:

Gay men are at the bottom of the male gender hierarchy and thus occupy a status of ______.

A set of predictions or explanations about patterns we observe in the social world is called a ______.

A set of expectations that are attached to a particular sex category is known as a ______.

Men have never been involved in feminism.

Consider and identify a workplace setting in which you have been employed. How did that workplace manifest any of the five key characteristics of a gendered organization? Provide specific examples.

The theory of "doing gender," which says that gender is a performance and we are constantly on stage, is an ______-level approach to gender.

The gendered-organizations approach assumes ______.