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Sociology of Sexuality Quiz 1
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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
10/21/2007

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What is the Essentialism/Biological-Sociobiological Model?
Definition
Essentialism believe that biology is destiny
 people are genetically programmed.
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What is the Social Construction/Behavioral Science Model?
Definition
Social Construction believe that social experience, norms, and culture dictate sexuality.
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What is the Interactionist view of Social Construction?
Definition
Views of self influence behavior.
“What is seen as real, is real in its consequences”
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What is the Historicity View of Social Construction?
Definition
Reactions and self-image vary over time in addition to individual variation.
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What are K and R reproductive stratagies?  
Definition

R species obtain genetic continuity by mass reproduction of eggs and sperm, like fish

 

K species have a greated investmend in each fertilized egg, like humans. 

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Who was Kraft-Ebbing?     
Definition

An Austrian psychiatrist who wrote a book on sexual pathology and "perversity"

Medical vs. Moral Frame; shift from pathology to psychology 

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Who was Havelock Ellis? 
Definition

He wrote the first English Language book on sexuality.

Did not consider homosexuality to be immoral or a crime. 

Medical vs. Moral Frame; shift from pathology to psychology

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According to Freud's Theory of Sexual Desire, what is the Id?

     

Definition
biological, immediate, involuntary—"caldron of desire"
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According to Freud's Theory of Sexual Desire, what is the Ego? 
Definition
aggressive pursuit—"I want"
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According to Freud's Theory of Sexual Desire, what is the Superego? 
Definition
morality and social self—"Should I?"
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According to Freud's Theory of Sexual Drive, what is the libido?  
Definition
reproductively wired sex drive (life wish)
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According to Freud's Theory of Sexual Drive, what is Thantos?
Definition
The Death Wish
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What are the critiques of the Kinsey report?  
Definition
i. Inadequate sampling
ii. Overgeneralization
iii. Volunteer sample
iv. Over sampled educated people and students
v. Under sampled working class people, Jews, Catholics
vi. Catalogued only acts
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