Soc 242

SOC 242 – Sex and Gender

Professor Alana Bibeau

Midterm Review Fall 2012

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The midterm exam consists of five sections and a take-home essay. Section one asks you to match twelve definitions to the appropriate term. Section two consists of multiple-choice questions. Section three consists of fill-in-the-blank questions. Section four is another matching section – this time you’re asked to match authors/theorists to the theories or concepts they are associated with. Section five tests your conceptual knowledge. Each question contains two related concepts. You are asked to define each term and explain the relationship between them, including an example.

The following is a list of the people, theories, and concepts you should be familiar with for the exam. They come from the course readings, PowerPoint slides, and class lectures:

Blumberg and the “Big Picture” of gender stratification

Techno-economic base

Social stratification

Characteristics of Foraging, Horticulture, and Agrarian societies

The micro, mezzo, and macro levels of society

Sex and gender

Anne Fausto Sterling, The Five Sexes

Intersex

Gender role socialization

Targets/Agents of socialization

The social construction of gender

West and Zimmerman, Doing Gender

Michael Kimmel

Masculine scripts

CJ Pascoe

Fag discourse

Peggy MacIntosh, White Privilege and Male Privilege

Patricia Hill Collins

The matrix of domination

The hidden curriculum

The wage gap

Pay equity

The glass ceiling/glass escalator

Gender and love relationships

Andrew Cherlin, American Marriage in the 21st Century

Utilitarian, vital and total marriages

Anne Crittendon, The Mommy Tax

Arlie Russell Hochschild, “the second shift”

Blood and Wolf

The relationship between income and power

Susan Bordo

The body as a text of femininity

Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

Jeanne Kilbourne