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Problemset Title Chapter Quiz Introductory Text Question 1 Type: When it is said that Western society has viewed the either/or sets of male/female, masculine/feminine, and heterosexuality/homosexuality, what is meant we consider sexual orientation? Multiple Choice Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Question 2 Answer Graded As The so-called "natural" dichotomies natural" of both previous sociological research and common perception. Correct These are intersecting oppressions. Incorrect What is meant here is the neat arrangement of sexual expression. Incorrect These were once culturally prescribed legitimate-and illegitimatesexual orientations. Incorrect Feedback "Binary categories of sex" can best be understood by which of the following? Hint: Type: Multiple Choice Question 3 Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As These are social constructs that divide male and female and heterosexual and homosexual into categorized sex relationships. Correct It is another way of describing biological sex differentiation. Incorrect Binary categories of sex are the two sets of our primary cultural images of gender. Incorrect These are stereotypes of gender relationships that reinforce inequality. Incorrect Feedback How can gender be "fluid" if a person is born either male or female? Hint: Type: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Gender and sex are constructs, that is, the way a human being experiences being male or female, masculine or feminine. Correct Surgery allows individuals to cross the lines separating male and female. Incorrect Certain cultures recognize that people have both male and female characteristics. Incorrect Such individuals are intersex, that is, the "third gender." Incorrect Feedback Question 4 A male-to-female transsexual who remains married to her female spouse can describe herself as a lesbian. Type: Hint: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As True, she can define herself as a woman and adopt the role of a lesbian. Correct No, given the norms of the gay and lesbian communities. Incorrect True, but she would not be a real or good lesbian. Incorrect Feedback False, such transsexuals are still men and outliers as far as gender Incorrect identity is understood. Question 5 Research, as well as contemporary culture, reveals the Americans are accepting of homosexuals as opposed to homosexual acts. Which of the following is a plausible reason? Type: Hint: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Question 6 Answer Graded As Americans are more supportive of civil liberties issues in regard to inequality, but tend to view specific behaviors as immoral. Correct American attitudes are ambivalent. Incorrect Many American are sympathetic because they see gay people as being born that way. They also see gay people as subverting straight culture. Incorrect Men are less tolerant of gay people than women are, hence the divided opinion. Incorrect Feedback Type: Despite being a minority that has suffered the deprivation of civil rights as other inequalities, Blacks tend to be more hostile to homosexuals than Whites. Choose the accepted explanation. Multiple Choice Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Blacks tend to have fundamentalist religious views that consider homosexuals sinful. Correct Blacks fear getting AIDs and other sexually transmitted diseases. Incorrect Black men see homosexuals as threats to their romantic sense of the masculine role. Incorrect Blacks reject comparisons made about their minority status to that of homosexuals. Incorrect Feedback Question 7 Numerous studies all indicate that negative attitudes about gays and lesbians are reduced by what process or phenomenon? Type: Hint: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Question 8 Answer Graded As regular contact Correct television programs with positive gay characters Incorrect a desegregation process similar to the Civil Rights era Incorrect the activities of groups such as Act Up Incorrect Feedback Type: The gay scholar Stephen Murray has posited the term "quasi-ethnic group" to describe the homosexual community. Why is might this term be provocative, even for those who agree with him? Multiple Choice Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As This point of view suggests that being gay and lesbian is almost biological in nature. Correct Feedback It is indicative the extreme status separation that gays and lesbians Incorrect face according to Weber. It suggests that gays and lesbians belong to separate castes. Incorrect Murray, by implication, is saying that gays and lesbians share an ethnicity much the way Blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities do. Incorrect Question 9 Are the specialized reasons for and forms of intolerance of gays and lesbians restricted to them? Type: Hint: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As No, heterosexuals who associate with homosexuals in personal relationships can suffer social ostracism too. Correct Feedback Not entirely-heterosexuals who don't marry or live asexual lives are Incorrect often suspected to be and even teased as homosexuals. Certain kinds of straight women are often singled out (e.g., with derogatory terms such as "fag hags"). Incorrect The children of gay parents in particular are stigmatized as homosexuals, too. Incorrect Question 10 Why did opponents to the Defense of Marriage Act emphasize the need to protect civil rights? Type: Hint: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Because polls had revealed that Americans are generally supportive or don't mobilize against civil right issues. Correct Because opponents wanted to look moral and upright-indeed, "quasi-straight." Incorrect Traditionally, civil rights issues are more valid than morally tinged ones. Incorrect Civil rights are more exemplary of a civil society. Incorrect Feedback Question 11 Why is the language in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act so problematic in its application in deciding cases of discrimination based on sex? Type: Hint: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Question 12 Answer Graded As Congress provided no definition of sex and so Title VII is interpreted narrowly. Correct Senator Howard Smith (D) of Virginia introduced the sex discrimination language as a way to defeat the entire Act. Incorrect Gender behavior is too weak an argument when measured against biological sex. Incorrect The language is so vague that it can mean how people engage in sexual intercourse as much as their biological sex at birth. Incorrect Feedback Type: Many states have passed laws against employment discrimination based on sexual preference. Some have of exclusions for certain occupations. What kind of job is likely meant here? Multiple Choice Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As A very limited range of occupations in which biological sex would prevent one from performing his or her duties or interacting with people of the opposite sex on religious grounds and the like. Correct Jobs in which clients would object to gays or lesbians touching them. Incorrect Certain kinds of social work, such as those treating women in a crisis center. Incorrect Feedback There are no occupations that cannot be occupied by individuals on Incorrect the basis of sexual orientation or biology. Question 13 In measuring the percentage of homosexuals in the general population, what is the most problematic issue? Hint: Type: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As A person's sexual behavior, as interpreted by that person, may not be considered homosexuality. Correct Feedback Not everyone in a same sex relation considers what he or she does Incorrect to be a homosexual act. Many homosexuals still fear "coming out" and so are not counted. Incorrect Many gay people find being perceived as straight to be a workaround for the problem of inequality. Incorrect Question 14 The military's former policy of "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) was eliminated in 2011. Legally, what was defective about the law? Type: Hint: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As DADT was based on stereotypes and required people to lie about themselves, which was not standing up in many court cases. Correct There were never any injured heterosexual parties, whom the law was intended to protect. Incorrect Outside of courts martial, DADT could stand up in civilian courts. Incorrect The law became obsolete because the military's leaders as well as its members did not agree with it. Incorrect Feedback Question 15 Attempting to shame gays and lesbians or to force them to adopt a heterosexual lifestyle can best be described by what term? Type: Hint: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As heterosexism Correct bullying Incorrect microinequities Incorrect deprogramming Incorrect Feedback