Choose the correct answer for each question. You should aim for 90% or more for this quiz

1. Margaret Mead used participant observation to study gender roles in different cultures. In which one of the following cultures did the roles of men and women show a pattern of role-reversal compared to traditional gender roles in western societies?

   1.   ?    The Arapesh
   2.   ?    The Mundugumor
   3.   ?    The Tchambuli

2. True or false? Men are aggressive in all societies.

   1.   ?    False
   2.   ?    True

3. True or false? Most sociologists would argue that gender roles are learned, rather than based on biology.

   1.   ?    True
   2.   ?    False

4. Which one of these behaviours shows a pattern of role-reversal compared to traditional gender roles in western industrial societies?

   1.   ?    Women going out to work and men staying at home to look after the children
   2.   ?    Women and men both going out to work
   3.   ?    Girls doing better than boys at school

5. Marjorie Ferguson's study, "Forever Feminine", used content analysis to study women's magazines from the 1950s to the 1970s. Which of the following did she find? (choose ONE answer)

   1.   ?    The magazines catered for women's interests
   2.   ?    The magazines always put forward the same view of gender roles
   3.   ?    The nature of women's roles changed, but the magazines always told women how to be better at the role

6. What term do sociologists learn to describe those aspects of our behaviour as men and women which are learned, rather than based on biology?

   1.   ?    Sex
   2.   ?    Gender

7. One of the following is an agency of sex-role socialisation for some people, but not for others. Which is it?

   1.   ?    The education system
   2.   ?    Religion
   3.   ?    Peer groups
   4.   ?    The family

8. What can content analysis of men's magazines tell us about gender roles? (choose one answer)

   1.   ?    How men respond to media images
   2.   ?    How men think
   3.   ?    How images of men are represented in the media

9. Tiger and Fox argued that we are genetically programmed to behave in masculine or feminine ways. Is this supported by most scientific evidence?

   1.   ?    Yes
   2.   ?    No

10. If masculine and feminine roles are based on our biology, what will we find when we study other cultures? (choose one answer)

    1.   ?    Men and women's behaviour is always the same
    2.   ?    Men and women's behaviour varies depending on the culture studied