Contemporary Social Issues Study Guide
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Course Introduction
This course offers an in-depth exploration of pressing social issues affecting modern societies, both locally and globally. Students will critically examine topics such as inequality, race and ethnicity, gender, poverty, environmental challenges, immigration, and the impact of technology on social structures. Through lectures, case studies, and discussions, the course encourages analytical thinking and informed debate, equipping students with the knowledge and tools to understand and engage with the complex social challenges of today.
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Gendered Lives 11th Edition by Julia T. Wood
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Chapter 1: The Study of Communication Gender and Culture
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Q1) Gender is a relational concept because masculinity and femininity make sense in relation to one another.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Patriarchy
Answer: Patriarchy is a term that literally means "rule by fathers." To say that a culture is patriarchal means that it is primarily focused on men's goals,needs,and realities.Men are given preference over women as ideologies,structures,and practices are defined by and for men.
Q3) The author of your textbook talks about privileges and disadvantages that are part of her social location (and standpoint)that she did not earn and explains how they shape how she sees the world.Choose one privilege and one disadvantage that is part of your social location and explain how it shapes how you see the world.
Answer: Responses will vary depending on the social location selected.Students may choose to talk about their race,gender,sex,sexuality,religion or spirituality,class,geographic location,or other marker.They should be specific in their explanation.
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Chapter 2: Theoretical Approaches to Gender Development
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Q1) Gender schema
Answer: An internal framework for categorizing perceptions and behaviors.Children begin to develop a gender schema as early as age two and use it to organize their understanding about appropriate behaviors for boys,girls,men and women.
Q2) At age 3,Bonnie realizes she is female and she wants to become skilled at being a girl. She begins to watch her mother and older sister and to model her behaviors after theirs. Bonnie's efforts to learn how to act feminine are best explained by which theory?
A) cognitive development
B) social learning
C) psychodynamic (or psychoanalytic)
D) biological
E) both B and C
Answer: A
Q3) Queer theory
Answer: Queer theory critiques conventional categories of identity and cultural views of "normal" and "abnormal" particularly in relation to sexuality.To queer theory,labels like man,woman,gay,and straight are meaningless and misleading.
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Chapter 3: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gender: Competing Images of Women
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Q1) Describe separatism and why it is limited in its power as a feminist movement.
Answer: Separatism developed to give women opportunities to live apart from men.The argument is that women's values are fundamentally different than men's.According to this movement,women value life,equality,harmony,nurturance,and peace,which cannot thrive in a capitalist,patriarchal society.The movement's power to change the culture is limited by its adherents' sequestering themselves from mainstream communities and by not assuming a public voice for their critiques of the culture.
Q2) Revalorists choose to leave mainstream society and form separate communities that value women and are in harmony with nature.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Women burned their bras to protest the Miss America pageant in 1968.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gender: Competing Images of Men
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Q1) Masculinist movements assert that men suffer from discrimination and that men need to reclaim their rightful status as men.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Promise Keepers see reconnecting with God's commandments as the path for men to regain wholeness.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Football coach Joe Ehrmann,who stresses to his team the value of building relationships,loving one another,and accepting love,is enacting a traitorous identity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) NOMAS,MVP,and mythopoetics all agree that the current construction of masculinity can be harmful.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Mythopoetic men
Q6) Bystander behavior
Q7) Traitorous identity
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Chapter 5: Gendered Verbal Communication
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Q1) There are several common communication problems that may occur when people from different gendered speech communities interact.List and describe 3 of them.
Q2) Polarized thinking
Q3) Children's play is very important in how they become socialized into speech communities.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Misinterpretations between people who are socialized into masculine speech communities and people who are socialized into feminine speech communities occur around the issue of showing support because
A) feminine speakers want a matching of experience and masculine speakers give advice.
B) feminine speakers find masculine speaker's storytelling to be wandering and unfocused.
C) feminine speakers think masculine speaker's storytelling misses important details. D) feminine speakers are trying to make a point and masculine speakers try to upstage them.
E) all of the above
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Chapter 6: Gendered Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) Proxemics
Q2) Carrie and Jennifer are talking in the hallway between classes.Carrie is making eye contact with Jennifer,nodding intently while Jennifer speaks,and occasionally asks questions to clarify what Jennifer is saying.Carrie is using nonverbal communication to regulate interaction.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Three-year-old Kate falls and scrapes her knees on the playground.Her mother runs to her,scoops her up into her arms,and cuddles Kate until she stops crying.What aspect of nonverbal communication is being used here?
A) kinesics
B) artifacts
C) the responsiveness dimension of relationship level of meaning
D) the liking dimension of relationship level of meaning
E) haptics
Q4) Kinesics
Q5) Power
Q6) Haptics
Q7) Artifacts
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Chapter 7: Becoming Gendered: The Early Years
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Q1) According to some counselors,pressure to live up to ideals of masculinity has led to an epidemic of hidden male depression.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Identify the themes (or elements)of what it means to be masculine in the United States.As part of your explanation,be sure you provide brief,concrete examples for the six themes.Finally,discuss <u>one</u> way that parental/guardian communication about gender (as discussed inChapter 7 of Gendered Lives)may influence understanding of one or more of these themes.
Q3) Which of the following is true,according to psychoanalytic theorists?
A) Children of both sexes usually form their first identification with an adult woman.
B) Boys identify more closely with their fathers than girls identify with their mothers.
C) For a girl to fully form her identity, she must repress her original identification with her mother.
D) At around the age of one year, male and female development diverges dramatically.
E) All of the above.
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Chapter 8: Gendered Education: Communication in Schools
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Q1) People practicing invisible hand discrimination truly believe they are acting in an unbiased manner.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss the controversy over female abilities for math and/or science.How do females typically fare in math and science? Be sure to address biological and social factors.
Q3) Title IX
Q4) Boys are more likely than girls to complete high school.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which of the following is true about Title IX?
A) All U.S. schools must abide by the rules of Title IX.
B) Title IX has led to a decrease in athletic programs for men.
C) Title IX bans sex discrimination only in athletics.
D) Most Americans approve of Title IX.
E) Because of Title IX, male and female student athletes receive an equal number of scholarship dollars.
Q6) Invisible hand discrimination
Q7) Culture of romance Page 10
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Chapter 9: Gendered Close Relationships
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Q1) The demand-withdraw pattern explains why sexual tension often exists in cross-sex friendships
A)True
B)False
Q2) Alternative paths model
Q3) Identify general patterns of similarities and differences in how masculine and feminine communication occurs within same sex friendships.(To make this question more challenging and integrateChapter 7 material,add: Explain how these differences grow out of gendered family socialization.)
Q4) In the movie When Harry Met Sally,Harry says to Sally that men and women cannot be friends.Your book discusses some challenges and benefits of cross-sex friendships.Note at least two challenges and two benefits of cross-sex friendships.For each of the challenges you mention,note one way that friends could help to navigate that potential issue.
Q5) The Mommy Myth
Q6) Second shift
Q7) Describe the division of labor in a typical heterosexual household.Why does the division exist in this form? Do you think it is possible for the division of labor in the home to be exactly equal? Why or why not?
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Chapter 10: Gendered Organizational Communication
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Q1) Anna and Ben are up for the same promotion at work.When it comes time to make a decision,the management committee chooses Ben for the position because they think Anna's commitment to being a good mother to her children would prevent her from wanting to take on more responsibilities at the office.Anna has just encountered what?
A) glass walls
B) FMLA
C) affirmative action
D) the glass ceiling
E) none of the above
Q2) Fortune 500 companies that have a strong record of promoting women to executive levels outperform other Fortune 500 companies.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Workplace bullying
Q4) Because men have dominated in the workplace in the past,many informal networks are largely or exclusively male.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Gendered Media
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Q1) Agenda-setting
Q2) Research has shown that if you are educated about and are aware of the impact,media will have little or no influence on you.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Though sometimes their portrayals are problematic,news programs,sitcoms,and dramas no longer underrepresent women and minorities.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Cyberbullying has real,sometimes fatal consequences for its victims.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Advertisements ______ than other media.
A) contain less gendered messages
B) are less pervasive C) are less effective
D) contain more gendered messages
E) are often more powerful
Q6) Immersive advertising
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Chapter 12: Gendered Power and Violence
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Q1) Informed consent
Q2) Which of the following examples meets the definition of informed consent?
A) Vidhi is sold by her family and is forced to work as a prostitute.
B) Jake drinks alcohol until he passes out and then is sexually fondled by his romantic partner of 5 years.
C) Brittany agrees to have sex when she is 15-years-old with her 18-year-old romantic partner.
D) Amber is mentally disabled and lives in an assisted living facility. While checking on her, a nurse touches her breasts, unrelated to the care he is providing.
E) None of the above.
Q3) Sexual assault
Q4) Lewd remarks made in public spaces,while annoying,are not considered gendered violence.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Define sexual harassment.Then,identify and evaluate the two different legal forms of sexual harassment and standards for determining whether it occurred.Your response should explain which standard,if any,you favor and why.
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Chapter 13: Epilogue: Looking Backward, Looking Forward
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Q1) Agenda-setting
Q2) Which of the following is true of relationships between individuals and cultural views of gender?
A) Individuals may reinforce cultural views of gender.
B) Individuals may embody cultural views of gender.
C) Individuals may remake cultural views of gender.
D) Individuals may challenge cultural views of gender.
E) All of the above.
Q3) Making time to think about issues raised in this book is part of developing your voice.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Differences are valuable and desirable. A)True
B)False
Q5) Voice
Q6) "Salad bowl" metaphor
Q7) Agenda-setting is an important way to influence cultural views of gender. A)True
B)False
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