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Instructor Resource Ryle, Questioning Gender, 3e SAGE Publishing, 2018

Chapter 1: What Is Gender and Why Should We Care About It?

Test Bank Multiple Choice

• Reading many different cues in order to decide whether someone walking down the street is a

woman or a man is known as:

• gender assignment
• cisgender
• cultural genitalia
• gender attribution

Ans: d

Answer Location: Swimming with the Fishes: Learning to See Gender

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Difficulty Level: Easy

• The text refers to learning the process of “seeing gender,” which in this case means:
• Being able to identify the gender of people on the street.
• Learning what genitalia are specifically associated with each gender.
• Learning to see the invisible ways in which gender affects individuals.
• Recognizing that gender is solely an individual attribute.

Ans: c

Answer Location: Swimming with the Fishes: Learning to See Gender

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Difficulty Level: Medium

• The idea of becoming aware of the air we breathe is equivalent to the concept of:
• the Thomas principle
• seeing gender
• the biosocial approach
• social constructionism

Ans: b

Answer Location: Swimming with the Fishes: Learning to See Gender

Cognitive Domain: Application

Difficulty Level: Medium

• The principle that states: “If people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences” is

known as the:

• Thomas principle
• Ryle principle
• historical principle
• institutional principle

Ans: a

Answer Location: Gender and the Social Construction of Reality

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Difficulty Level: Easy 2 / 4

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• Using the Thomas principle to analyze the situation of a teacher who assumed that a clock made by

an Arab-American student was a bomb, supports the claim that:

• Race and gender are real categories based on biological reality.
• Situations defined as real become real in their consequences.
• Racist stereotypes are based on biological reality.
• Arab-Americans are more likely to be terrorists.

Ans: b

Answer Location: Gender and the Social Construction of Reality

Cognitive Domain: Application

Difficulty Level: Medium

• The Thomas principle states that if situations are defined as real, they are real in their

consequences. With which sociological theory of gender is this principle most closely aligned?

• essentialist perspective
• social construction perspective
• functionalist perspective
• feminist perspective

Ans: b

Answer Location: Gender and the Social Construction of Reality

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Difficulty Level: Medium

• An awareness of the ways in which the interaction of race, gender, social class, and sexuality affect

our lives is referred to as:

• intersex
• cultural genitalia
• intersectionality
• social constructionism

Ans: c

Answer Location: Gender and Intersectionality

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Associating Arab-American men with terrorism illustrates the effect of ______ on people’s lives.
• intersectionality
• sex
• gender
• race

Ans: a

Answer Location: Gender and Intersectionality

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Medium

• Which of the following are the two key sources of evidence that are commonly used to support the

social constructionist perspective?

• historical and cross-cultural comparisons
• nurture and nature arguments
• biological and evolutionary arguments
• racial and gender intersections 3 / 4

Instructor Resource Ryle, Questioning Gender, 3e SAGE Publishing, 2018

Ans: a

Answer Location: Gender and the Social Construction of Reality

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Difficulty Level: Easy

• The fact that nineteenth-century arguments about the racial inferiority of nonwhites are no longer

accepted as true supports which of the following conclusions?

• Race is an immutable biological characteristic.
• Race can be scientifically validated through quantitative research.
• Race is socially constructed because ideas dominant at one time in history are now rejected.
• The Civil Rights Movement has changed ideas about race, but the reality of racial inequality

persists.

Ans: c

Answer Location: Gender and the Social Construction of Reality

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Medium

• The social meaning that is assigned to biological differences between males and females is known

as:

• sexual dimorphism
• gender
• sex
• sexual category

Ans: b

Answer Location: Sex or Gender: What’s the Difference?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Difficulty Level: Easy

• The biological differences between people we call males and females are known as:
• sexual dimorphism
• gender
• sex
• sexual androgyny

Ans: c

Answer Location: Sex or Gender: What’s the Difference?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Difficulty Level: Easy

• The statement “Much of what we experience in terms of gender depends on historical time period

and place, yet there are limits to that experience based on the biological reality of male and female bodies” would align best with which theoretical perspective?

• essentialist perspective
• social construction perspective
• biosocial perspective
• feminist perspective

Ans: c

Answer Location: A Biosocial Approach

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Difficulty Level: Medium

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