Higher Education

Multiple Choice

Elements of Sociology: A Critical Canadian Introduction - Chapter 10

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Question 1:

Gender is
a) the same as sex
b) a sociological term that refers to the roles and characteristics society assigns to men and women.
c) a word for the biological division of men and women.
d) Both a and b

Question 2:

Who is known as the founding mother of sociology?
a) Harriet Martineau
b) Annie Marion MacLean
c) Aileen Ross
d) Helen Abell

Question 3:

This broad feminist category is criticized for being centred around the idea that it universalizes the position of White, middle-class, heterosexual women.
a) Feminist Liberalism
b) Feminist Essentialism
c) Feminist Socialism
d) Feminist Postmodernism

Question 4:

This feminist category takes the strongest social constructionist position.
a) Feminist Liberalism
b) Feminist Essentialism
c) Feminist Socialism
d) Feminist Postmodernism

Question 5:

This perspective looks at differences between the way women and men think, and argues for equality—and female superiority.
a) Feminist Liberalism
b) Feminist Essentialism
c) Feminist Socialism
d) Feminist Postmodernism

Question 6:

Women outnumber men in these employment areas
a) finance, insurance, real estate, and leasing
b) the utilities
c) technical services
d) business

Question 7:

Men outnumber women in these employment areas
a) educational services
b) support services
c) healthcare
d) None of the above

Question 8:

The number of women attending university in Canada has increased from 10 per cent of the total in 1970 to over ________ per cent in 2005.
a) 20
b) 30
c) 50
d) 70

Question 9:

The greatest part of critical work on gender has been carried out by feminist scholars.
a) True
b) False

Question 10:

Annie Marion MacLean was the first Canadian to obtain a PhD in sociology
a) True
b) False

Question 11:

Feminist liberalism rejects the idea that male and female gender identity is connected to some biological ‘essence’.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

Feminist socialists, according to Kachuk, should begin to look at the intersections of oppression between class and gender.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

There are no separate spheres of post-secondary education for men and women.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

Men outnumber women in finance and insurance.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

Since the start of World War I, when women began to work outside of the home in greater numbers, many occupations have become feminized.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

Clerical work has traditionally been done by men.
a) True
b) False