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Chapter 4: Social Class, Space, Place, and Sexuality
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Sociologists define social class as ______.
A. a way to attach prestige to some jobs but not others
B. determined by highest degree achieved
C. a way to group people who share similar positions and political interests
D. determined only by the amount of income and wealth one holds
Learning Objective: 4-1: Explain key theories for understanding the intersection of social class and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Social Class and Sexuality
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. According to Marx, which of the following creates distinct social classes?
A. the relationship to how goods and resources are produced
B. the sexualized division of labor in the home and in the workplace
C. emergence of private property
D. unequal access to education
Learning Objective: 4-1: Explain key theories for understanding the intersection of social class and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Karl Marx
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. How did capitalism impact the emergence of gay and lesbian identities?
A. People could meet more potential partners at their jobs.
B. Capitalism disrupted traditional ideologies about family life.
C. People could buy clothes and other items to better signal their identities.
D. Capitalism eradicated heteropatriarchal practices.
Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the relationship between colonialism, capitalism, and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sexuality Capitalism
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Challenging and disrupting indigenous family arrangements is an example of ______.
A. sexual privilege
B. sexuality capitalism
C. commodity fetishism
D. settler colonialism
Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the relationship between colonialism, capitalism, and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Colonialism, Capitalism, and Sexuality
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Early work on social class and sexual behaviors concluded that ______.
A. gender predicted sexual behaviors more than class
B. social class predicted sexual behaviors more than gender
C. social class played no role in shaping sexual behaviors
D. social class had the same effect on men and women
Learning Objective: 4-3: Identify how social class influences sexual and gendered behaviors and norms.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Class and Sexual Behaviors
Difficulty Level: Hard
6. The ability of high-status women in college to shape the “slut” discourse exemplifies which concept?
A. heteropatriarchy
B. sexual privilege
C. intersectionality
D. sexual fluidity
Learning Objective: 4-3: Identify how social class influences sexual and gendered behaviors and norms.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Class and Sexual Behaviors
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Middle-class men attribute sexual appetites to ______, while working-class men attribute sexual appetites to ______.
A. biology; social influences
B. social influences; biology
C. appearance; pleasure
D. pleasure; appearance
Learning Objective: 4-3: Identify how social class influences sexual and gendered behaviors and norms.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Doing Class
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. According to the authors, an important way to address inequality based on sexuality is to ______.
A. foster the development of a Western LGBTQ identity
B. take a unidimensional approach
C. implement inclusive economic policies
D. focus on passing more antidiscrimination laws
Learning Objective: 4-4: Explain what is meant by the idea of sexual rights and how this intersects with class, manifesting as privilege or inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Class, Poverty, and Sexual Rights
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. The LGBTQ community in the southern United States is more likely to ______.
A. identify as religious
B. spend time in gay bars
C. have antidiscrimination protections
D. have difficulties accessing affirming medical care
Learning Objective: 4-5: Describe the ways space and place intersect with sexuality, particularly in terms of sexual globalization and sexual migration.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Space, Place, and Sexuality
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. The globalization of sexuality is intertwined with the economic, cultural, and ______ spheres of society.
A. religious
B. political
C. emotional
D. individual
Learning Objective: 4-5: Describe the ways space and place intersect with sexuality, particularly in terms of sexual globalization and sexual migration.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sexual Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. A company that advertises their products using rainbow flags and other symbols of the LGBTQ community while still discriminating against LGBTQ-identified employees can be best described using which concept?
A. regulating sexual citizenship
B. glocalizing
C. pinkwashing
D. homonationalistic
Learning Objective: 4-5: Describe the ways space and place intersect with sexuality, particularly in terms of sexual globalization and sexual migration.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sexual Globalization
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Which of the following is a major factor contributing to the decline of gay enclaves?
A. Safe spaces are no longer needed.
B. the increase of LGBTQ parents
C. declining property values
D. more laws prohibiting discrimination based on sexuality
Learning Objective: 4-6: Explain the ways sexual and gender minorities “make place” in urban, rural, and suburban contexts.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gayborhoods
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. Which of the following best characterizes the experience of the LGBTQ community in suburbia?
A. Sexual minorities are more openly supported by heterosexual neighbors.
B. The LGBTQ community feels pressure to perform masculinity.
C. Sexual minorities are present but are often made invisible.
D. The LGBTQ community uses flags to symbolize their presence.
Learning Objective: 4-6: Explain the ways sexual and gender minorities “make place” in urban, rural, and suburban contexts.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Sexual Minorities in Suburbia
Difficulty Level: Hard
14. How can lesbians and gay men gain acceptance in rural areas?
A. by performing masculinity
B. by performing heterosexuality
C. by wearing rainbow pins
D. by attending religious services
Learning Objective: 4-6: Explain the ways sexual and gender minorities “make place” in urban, rural, and suburban contexts.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sexuality and Rurality
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. Who is most likely to identify as kinksters or polyamorists?
A. people who are less well educated, regardless of race
B. White, lower-class professionals
C. people who are educated and professional, regardless of race
D. White, educated, and upper-class professionals
Learning Objective: 4-3: Identify how social class influences sexual and gendered behaviors and norms.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Class and Sexual Behaviors
Difficulty Level: Easy
True/False
1. Social reproduction theory argues that the unpaid labor of women helps reproduce capitalism.
Learning Objective: 4-1: Explain key theories for understanding the intersection of social class and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Reproduction Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Commodity fetishism refers to the emergence of products designed for sexual pleasure.
Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the relationship between colonialism, capitalism, and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sexuality Capitalism
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. The labels used to describe sexual identity vary by social class.
Learning Objective: 4-3: Identify how social class influences sexual and gendered behaviors and norms.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Class and Sexual Behaviors
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Sexual migration refers to the movement of people from more traditional to more modern and affirming societies.
Learning Objective: 4-5: Describe the ways space and place intersect with sexuality, particularly in terms of sexual globalization and sexual migration.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sexual Migration
Difficulty Level: Hard
5. Gay neighborhoods began developing after thousands of people were discharged from armed services for presumptive homosexuality.
Learning Objective: 4-6: Explain the ways sexual and gender minorities “make place” in urban, rural, and suburban contexts.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Gayborhoods
Difficulty Level: Easy
Short Answer
1. Provide two sociological definitions of social class. How are they similar and different?
Learning Objective: 4-1: Explain key theories for understanding the intersection of social class and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Class and Sexuality
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. Define commodity fetishism, and explain how it connects to sexuality.
Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the relationship between colonialism, capitalism, and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Sexuality Capitalism
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. What does it mean to “do class?” How does “doing class” impact the LGBTQ community?
Learning Objective: 4-3: Identify how social class influences sexual and gendered behaviors and norms.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Doing Class
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Explain the relationship between economic justice and sexual rights.
Learning Objective: 4-4: Explain what is meant by the idea of sexual rights and how this intersects with class, manifesting as privilege or inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Class, Poverty, and Sexual Rights
Difficulty Level: Hard
5. How have gay enclaves changed over time?
Learning Objective: 4-5: Describe the ways space and place intersect with sexuality, particularly in terms of sexual globalization and sexual migration.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Gayborhoods
Difficulty Level: Medium
Essay
1. Describe social reproduction theory. Do you think the arguments of social reproduction theorists still hold true today? Why or why not?
Learning Objective: 4-1: Explain key theories for understanding the intersection of social class and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Social Reproduction Theory
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. What is settler colonialism, and how can this process impact sexuality?
Learning Objective: 4-2: Describe the relationship between colonialism, capitalism, and sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Sexuality Capitalism
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. When discussing class and sexuality, why is it important to also consider race and gender? Give specific examples from the reading to support your points.
Learning Objective: 4-3: Identify how social class influences sexual and gendered behaviors and norms.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Class and Sexual Behaviors
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Evaluate the positives and the negatives of the globalization of sexuality.
Learning Objective: 4-5: Describe the ways space and place intersect with sexuality, particularly in terms of sexual globalization and sexual migration.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Sexual Globalization
Difficulty Level: Hard
5. Compare and contrast how sexual and gender minorities create community in urban versus rural areas.
Learning Objective: 4-6: Explain the ways sexual and gender minorities “make place” in urban, rural, and suburban contexts.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Making Place: Sexual Minorities in Urban, Rural, and Suburban Contexts
Difficulty Level: Medium
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