Chapter4
This concept refers to a status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person's entire life.
Master Status
Assume you are one of many people assembled at a university graduation ceremony. The concept that best describes this gathering is a ___.
Secondary Group
The fear of close personal interaction with people thought to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual is referred to as this.
Homophobia
Women learning to measure their personal importance in terms of physical appearance that is pleasing to men is referred to this.
Beauty Myth
When a surgeon chooses not to operate on her son because the personal involvement of motherhood could impair her professional objectivity as a physician, this is an example of ___.
Role Conflict
You are part of a task force with a group leader who has a distant relationship with the group members and who is concerned with getting the job done. This is a ___ leader
Instrumental
U.S. culture often depicts sexuality in terms of sport involving male power directed at women, such as when we speak of men "scoring" with women, which emphasizes this perspective.
Social Conflict
This sociological perspective points out that industrialization encourages increasing gender equality.
Structural-functional
Studying the way people make sense of their everyday surroundings is an approach called ___.
Ethnomethodology
This concept refers to a number of weak social ties among people who have little common identity and little interaction.
Network
Making sexuality a focus of scientific study was the foundation of his research.
Alfred Kinsey
Talcott Parsons explained that men tend to exhibit ___ behavior, while women are more ___.
Instrumental; Expressive
According to Goffman, we engage in this when we use costumes, props, tone of voice, and gestures to convey information to others.
Performance
The emergency room clerk who keeps a bleeding patient waiting while filling out lots of paperwork is a classic example of bureaucratic ___.
Ritualism
Based on research involving human genetics, it is fair to conclude that sexual orientation results from this.
Both Biological & Cultural Factors
This type of feminism accepts the basic organization of U.S. society, but seeks to give women the same rights and opportunities as men.
Liberal Feminism
In the U.S., people stand farther away from one another when they are talking than two people would in a Middle Eastern nation. This pattern reveals differences in meaning attached to ___.
Personal Space
Efficiency, predictability, uniformity, and control are traits linked to the process of this.
McDonaldization of Society
Looking at the politics of sexuality, conservatives typically view sexuality in terms of ___, whereas progressives view sexuality in terms of ___.
Morality; Inequality
Sexual harassment is an important social issue because it affects ___% of women at some point.
80%