Deck 8: Doing Gender

Question 1

Which of the following four dimensions of gender likely has the most significant impact upon the shape of your experiences, choices and relationships?

A) individual
B) interactional
C) institutional
D) socio-cultural

Answer 1

interactional

Question 2

Our interaction patterns are shaped by our ____________ in society.

A) attitudes
B) friends
C) location
D) impressions

Answer 2

location

Question 3

How many of our interactions are influenced in some way by gender?

A) very few
B) some
C) virtually all
D) it varies from person to person

Answer 3

virtually all

Question 4

The sociological tool developed by Erving Goffman (1959), which enables us to analyzed the relation between self and other through the metaphor of the theatre, is called ________ analysis.

A) symbolic interactionist
B) post-modern
C) cinematic
D) dramaturgical

Question 5

When we are performing for others and orienting our performance to how we want others to see us, we are engaged in _________.

A) deception
B) impression management
C) backstage behavior
D) interactional manipulation

Question 6

Erving Goffman uses this term to describe instances in which one's performance is ruined by qualities judged as disreputable or undesirable.

A) stigmatized
B) inept
C) spoiled identity
D) cynical performance

Question 7

The term that Canadian scholar Holly Devor (1989) uses to describe women who present themselves in way that do not invoke 'feminine' insignia and who, consequently, are routinely mistaken for men.

A) gender deviants
B) gender rebels
C) gender benders
D) gender blenders

Question 8

This theory maintains that society attributes statuses to individuals in a very hierarchical manner.

A) status expectations theory
B) dramaturgical analysis
C) the two-worlds approach
D) impression management

Question 9

The pattern of masculinity that is given the highest social status and used as the basis for judging all men is known as _____________ masculinity.

A) patriarchal
B) hegemonic
C) bourgeois
D) dramaturgical

Question 10

Based on his research on young men in gym classes in western Canada, Kevin Davidson (2000) concludes that the pressure to conform to a hegemonic ideal is both an integral part of physical education class and something that is _________________ for many young men.

A) inspiring
B) challenging
C) harmful
D) terrifying

Question 11

In their study of Nova Scotia nurses, Evans and Blye (2003) found that men experienced ___________ in their gender status in the nursing profession.

A) multiple disadvantages
B) multiple advantages
C) considerable advantages and also considerable challenges to selfhood
D) material disadvantages and social advantages

Question 12

The approach to gender difference which, essentially, argues that people do gender due to socialization and unchanging biological differences, is known as _________________.

A) the two-worlds approach
B) dramaturgical analysis
C) status expectations theory
D) radical feminism

Question 13

John Gray's popular book Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus (2002) is an example of what kind approach to gender difference?

A) the two-worlds approach
B) dramaturgical analysis
C) status expectations theory
D) radical feminism

Question 14

The gender theorist, Elizabeth Aries (1998), argues that the research community has produced highly __________ claims about gender difference.

A) understated
B) overstated
C) mixed
D) uncertain

Question 15

A key way that friendships differ from other types of relationships is that they are generally _________________.

A) predictable
B) gendered
C) voluntary
D) stable

Question 16

A significant body of research today suggests that friendships between among men are ___________, compared to friendships among women.

A) qualitatively similar
B) qualitatively different
C) more enduring
D) less enduring

Question 17

Research on gender differences in friendship characterizes women as "relationship experts" and men as having " ____________ relationships".

A) self-fulfilling
B) domineering
C) deficit
D) pathological

Question 18

The suggestion that men are more focused on action whereas women are more focused on nurturance and expression is known as the _________ dichotomy.

A) Mars-Venus
B) agentic-communal
C) agency-structure
D) deficiency-expertise

Question 19

The authors of your text suggest that the acceptance of the terms "expertise" and "deficiency" for characterizing gender differences in friendship is:

A) illuminating
B) essentializing
C) useful
D) highly inadequate

Question 20

Empirical research on gender and friendship suggests that women's and men's friendships are:

A) more similar than different
B) more different than similar
C) incomparable, given that every friendship is unique
D) virtually identical

Question 21

How do the athletes in Oppliger's research orient to impression management?

Question 22

What is Devor referring to when she uses the term "gender blender"? .

Question 23

To what does "hegemonic masculinity" refer? Provide an example.

Question 24

In their study of Nova Scotia men in nursing, what did Evans and Blye (2003) find?

Question 25

In the study of Nova Scotia nurses conducted by Evans and Blye (2003) how did some men respond to challenges to their masculinity?

Question 26

Discuss how the dramaturgical model contributes to our understanding of gender performance in everyday life. Draw upon your own experiences, incorporating the following concepts into your essay: dramaturgical analysis, front and backstage, impression management, props and focused interaction.

Question 27

Develop a research essay which explores how gender is conventionally "done" in the context of a specific occupation or profession.

Question 28

While people who do not fit into normative expectations may be stigmatized by some, their disruption also creates a space to reconsider taken-for-granted patterns. With this in mind, develop an essay that explores how the disruption of gender status expectations can challenge the legitimacy of normativity, focusing upon a particular case, figure or example.