SOC 140 – EXAM #1 Study Guide
1. How does language influence the way we think about gender?
- Language influences the way we think about gender
... [Show More] because it:
1. shapes our definition of reality
2. It transforms how we think about gender.
3. It is embedded with sexist’s assumptions (p. 72)
2. Why is it important to study women?
- Sexist language leads to sexist assumptions
Ex: Think about attitudes conveyed in these expressions
-bitch, lady, babe, whore, mother
3. What is the matrix of domination, as described by Patricia Hill Collins?
- The particular configuration of race, class, and gender relations in society is
such that together they establish an interlocking system of domination; no one of
them can really be understood without understanding the others, as well.
Ex: White womenprivileged by race, but disadvantaged by gender (and
possibly class)
Black men: privileged by gender, disadvantaged by race and class
oppression.
4. How is gender not just a “role” but a social structure?
- Created through social learning and structure of social institutions
- Gender deeply embedded in social institutions
- Gender not just a “role,” but social structure
Roles can be assumed and discarded; gender is not as easily changed
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SOC 140 UCR Fall ‘06
EXAM 1 Study Guide
Gender is a status, just as race is a status
5. What is Identification Theory?
- A.K.A. Psychoanalytic gender theory
- Gender is learned by identifying identity with same sex parent
- Based on Freudian psychoanalytic perspective
- Psycho-sexual bend shapes child’s sex-role identity
- Focus on unconscious, making empirical
6. What is Object Relations Theory?
- Introduced by Chodorow
- “asymmetrical parenting”: women’s work devalued
- Boys: become more detached from family while girls remain attached
- Girls: focus on relationships and caring for others
- Boys: emotion suppression and lack of commitment to others
7. What is the Symbolic Interactionists’ theory of gender?
- Society is based on meanings derived from personal interactions which are
informed by existing cultural meanings
- “Doing Gender”
Sees gender as an accomplished activity through interactions with
others on a routine basis
8. How do cultural images generated by the media most often present women?
- Cultural images generated by media often present women as
1. Sex objects (thin)
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