Deck 10: Negotiating Power

Question 1

Historically, men have been dominant in ________ sphere/s.

A) public but not private
B) private but not public
C) both private and public
D) neither private nor public

Answer 1

both private and public

Question 2

The hierarchical view of power identifies power as something that is held by one person or group:

A) over another
B) in spite of another
C) in contrast to another
D) with no consideration towards any other

Answer 2

over another

Question 3

The management of knowledge as a type of power is called ________ power.

A) discursive
B) informational
C) intelligentsia
D) latent

Answer 3

informational

Question 4

When a person uses the bestowal (or withholding) of sexual "favours" to influence situations, this is a form of _______ power.

A) sexual
B) sexist
C) immoral
D) regressive

Question 5

An important slogan that came out of the second wave of feminism, and which brought so-called "private" issues (such as domestic violence) into the purview of political and legal action, was:

A) "The political is personal"
B) "The personal is political"
C) "The state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation"
D) "Women of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains"

Question 6

Which social theorist is credited with initiating a postmodern approach to power which identifies it is relational?

A) Dorothy Smith
B) Jeffrey Weeks
C) Michel Foucault
D) Steven Winter

Question 7

A Foucauldian approach to power emphasizes the following dimension:

A) repression
B) relationality
C) coerciveness
D) patriarchy

Question 8

As an alternative to the relational view of power, some theorists -such as Alan Hunt (1993)-have proposed that power is not wholly transitory but that there are structural patterns through which it is reproduced. These structural elements are identified as places of:

A) condensation
B) compromise
C) exchange
D) shifting meaning

Question 9

Ways of organizing knowledge that produce various "truths" and/or "facts" that are often invisible and thus, can go unchallenged, are called:

A) hidden curricula
B) invisible hands
C) contested frameworks
D) discursive frameworks

Question 10

Deborah Tannen's research on gendered conversation found that there is a _______ in type and ______ in style of talk between men and women.

A) similarity/difference
B) difference/similarity
C) difference/difference
D) similarity/similarity

Question 11

In addition to co-operation, which of the following characteristics does women's conversation contain, according to recent social science research?

A) competition
B) matriarchy
C) ambiguity
D) overt conflict

Question 12

What is the name of the methodology that begins from the standpoint of the oppressed and then considers the mechanisms that shape their experiences, as initiated by the Canadian sociologist Dorothy Smith?

A) ethnographic research
B) institutional ethnography
C) feminist epistemology
D) conversational analysis

Question 13

From whose standpoint does institutional ethnography, as developed by Dorothy Smith (2005), begin?

A) persons who hold power
B) groups that lack agency
C) people who are marginalized
D) the voiceless minority

Question 14

As discussed by Jo-Anne Fiske in her guest essay on ASD and FASD discourses, powerful discourses of ____________ often accompany the medicalization of deviant conditions.

A) identity
B) identification
C) etiology
D) self-help

Question 15

According to the authors of your textbook, the study of male violence against women requires a _____________ model of power.

A) simplified
B) more complex
C) less ambiguous
D) more positive

Question 16

Recent statistics from the Status of Women in Canada website show that physical and sexual male-to-female violence is both serious and _________.

A) rare
B) decreasing, thanks to educational campaigns
C) difficult to determine
D) pervasive

Question 17

According to recent statistics from the Status of Women Canada website, what percentage of Canadian women have been victims of at least one act of physical or sexual violence since the age of 16?

A) 10%
B) 30%
C) 50%
D) 90%

Question 18

According to Statistics Canada data from 2000, how likely is a woman to be injured by spousal violence, as compared to a man?

A) much less likely
B) about 3 times more likely
C) equally likely
D) about 10 times more likely

Question 19

Recent research into violence against women, such as the work of Joseph Michalski (2004), calls for a focus away from ___________factors to a greater emphasis upon ______________factors.

A) structural/interpersonal
B) interpersonal/structural
C) political/personal
D) personal/political

Question 20

What does recent empirical research have to say about violence within same-sex relationships?

A) it is highly exaggerated
B) it is severely under funded
C) it is very limited
D) it is extremely complex

Question 21

Historically, the social construction of art has been a _________ project.

A) male
B) female
C) gender neutral
D) heteronormative

Question 22

What does the "two-spheres" notion of power highlight? .

Question 23

How is power approached, according to the hierarchical view?

Question 24

Discuss the importance of the slogan "The personal is political" in the context of gender relations.

Question 25

Discuss the "relational" view of power.

Question 26

What is given emphasis in Smith's method of "institutional ethnography"?

Question 27

Critically analyse the working of power and gender through the ways in which the pregnant body gets represented in the context of alcohol education campaigns and advertisements. Use the guest essay by Fiske as a starting point for your analysis.

Question 28

Develop an essay in which you explore a particular public issue that concerns gender and power (e.g. domestic violence, sexual assault, etc.). Discuss the relationship between gender and power in a way that highlights the importance of the link between "the personal" and "the political".

Question 29

Go to a formal "art" center (such as a museum or art gallery) and notice the relationship between art, gender and power. Develop an essay in which you report on the degree to which your observations fit with, or challenge, recent literature that explores the gendering of art (as cited on pages 193-195).