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How do gender, gender roles, and gender stratification correlate with other social, economic, and political variables?
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
03/30/2010

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Sexual dimorphism
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maked differences in male and female biology, beyond breasts and genitals
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Gender roles
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the tasks and activities that a culture assigns to each sex
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Gender stereotypes
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Oversimplified, strongly held views about male and females
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Gender stratification
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unequal distribution of social resources between men and women
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Gender stratification is greatest when ______.
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women contribute much more or much less than men
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Foragers tend to have gender _______ and little ____.
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gender equality, domestic-public dichotomy
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Domestic-public dichotomy
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Work at home versus more valued work outside
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Matrilineal descent
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Descent traced through women only
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Patrilineal descent
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descent traced through men only
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____ and ____ are two public arenas that can contribute to status inequality of males and females among food producers.
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Warfare, trade
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A descent group is one whose social unity is based on a belief in _____.
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common ancestry
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Patrilocality
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Married couple resides in husband's community
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Matrilocality
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Married couple resides in wife's community
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Matrifocal
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mother centered- e.g., household with no resident husband-father
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Patrilineal-patrilocal complex
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Male supremacy based on patrilineality, patrilocality, and warfare
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extradomestic
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public, outside home
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Patriarchy
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Political system ruled by men
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Sexual orientation
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Sexual attraction to persons of the opposite sex, same sex, or either sex
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When gathering is prominent, gender status is_________ than when hunting or fishing dominates the foraging economy
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more equal
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Gender status is more equal when the ____ and ____ spheres aren't sharply separated
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domestic, public
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_____ lack two public arenas that contribute to higher male status among food producers: warfare and _______.
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Foragers, organized interregional trade
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_________ promotes intervillage warfare, patriliny, and patrilocality.
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Scarcity of resources
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In America, when the need for female labor decreases, the idea that ________ increases, and vice versa.
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women are unfit for many jobs
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"The biological nature of men and women should not be seen as a narrow enclosure limiting humans, but rather as a broad base upon which a variety of structures can be built"

This statement reflects the _____.

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predominant anthropological position on sex-gender roles and biology
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Cases in which women work, make boats, and hunt, suggest that _______.
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Patterns of division of labor by gender are culturally general- not universal
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Among foragers, the lack of a clear _______ is related to relatively mild gender inequality.
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domestic-public dichotomy
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Domestic-public dichotomy is stronger
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among peasants than foragers
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Reduced gender stratification is not a part of the _____________ complex.
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patrilineal-patrilocal complex
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In what kind of society do anthropologists most typically find forced female genital operations, intervillage raiding, female infanticide, and dowry?
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patrilineal-patrilocal
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The traditional idea that a woman's place is in the home developed among ____ as _________.
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middle and upper class Americans , industrialism spread after 1900
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Patriarchies are strongest in societies in which men control _________ that are exchanged with people _______.
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significant goods, outside the family
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What have recent cross-cultural studies of gender roles demonstrated?
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The relative status of women is variable, depending on factors such as subsitence strategy, importance of warfare, and prevalence of a domestic-public dichotomy
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Sexual orientation is/is not genetically determined
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is not
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Sex differences are biological, while ____ refers ot the cultural construction of whether one is female, male, or something else.
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