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Chapter 1: The Social Construction of Sexuality
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Taking a sociological approach to sexuality requires ______.
A. understanding the relationship between biology and sexuality
B. analyzing how culture and society shape sexuality
C. taking an individualistic lens on sexuality
D. isolating the effect of sexuality in our lives
Learning Objective: 1-1: Describe the sociological approach to the study of sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Sociology of Sexualities
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. The term ______ refers to being sexually attracted to people of all sexes or genders.
A. pansexuality
B. bisexuality
C. homosexuality
D. asexuality
Learning Objective: 1-1: Describe the sociological approach to the study of sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Terminology
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. A person who claims that all people are either heterosexual or homosexual would likely support which of these ideas?
A. monogamy
B. compulsive sexuality
C. sexual binary
D. essentialism
Learning Objective: 1-2: Explain what it means to say that sexuality is socially constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Sexual Binaries
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. “Sexuality is unchanging and innate” can be categorized as a(n) ______ belief.
A. essentialist
B. heterocentric
C. intersectional
D. sexophobic
Learning Objective: 1-2: Explain what it means to say that sexuality is socially constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Evidence of the Social Construction of Sexuality
Difficulty Level: Hard
5. What do the authors conclude about nature, nurture, and sexuality?
A. More research is needed into potential “gay genes.”
B. Human sexuality emerges at the intersection of nature and nurture.
C. Nature plays no role in shaping sexuality.
D. Sexual revolutions affect how nature impacts sexuality.
Learning Objective: 1-2: Explain what it means to say that sexuality is socially constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Nature Versus Nurture
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. How did the invention of “heterosexuality” and “homosexuality” shape how people thought about sexuality?
A. Sexual behaviors became more central to a person’s identity.
B. Sexual behaviors became less central to a person’s identity.
C. People became more likely to experiment sexually.
D. People became less likely to experiment sexually.
Learning Objective: 1-2: Explain what it means to say that sexuality is socially constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Invention of Heterosexuality and Homosexuality
Difficulty Level: Hard
7. Taking an intersectional approach to understanding sexuality involves ______.
A. analyzing diverse and emerging expressions of sexuality
B. understanding gender inequality as the dominant form of oppression
C. recognizing that multiple forms of oppression simultaneously shape each other
D. focusing on social categories rather than biological categories
Learning Objective: 1-5: Explain the sexualization of racial/ethnic minorities.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Sexualizing Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Compulsory heterosexuality means an individual is ______.
A. heterosexual by choice
B. shaped by cultural forces to be heterosexual
C. denying their own homosexuality
D. obsessed with sexuality
Learning Objective: 1-2: Explain what it means to say that sexuality is socially constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Compulsory Heterosexuality
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. Traditionally, U.S. society has linked childhood sexuality with ______.
A. dysfunctionality
B. heterosexuality
C. asexuality
D. healthy exploration
Learning Objective: 1-4: Depict sexuality across the life course.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Childhood Sexuality
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. When sociologists talk about sexual invisibility, they are referring to ______.
A. covert sexual behavior
B. aspects of sexuality that are ignored in society
C. an individual’s ability to traverse sexual identities
D. media’s censoring of sex
Learning Objective: 1-6: Discuss sexual minorities beyond lesbian and gay.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sexual Invisibility
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. When did a major sexual revolution occur in the United States?
A. 1940s–1950s
B. 1960s–1970s
C. 1980s–1990s
D. 2000s–2010s
Learning Objective: 1-3: Identify key characteristics of a sexual revolution.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Sexual Revolutions
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. Sexual revolutions usually emerge in response to ______.
A. new forms of birth control
B. sexual freedom
C. changing gender roles
D. sexual repression
Learning Objective: 1-3: Identify key characteristics of a sexual revolution.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sexual Revolutions
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. Julie is in a loving, emotionally involved, and consensual relationship with two different people. This is an example of ______.
A. mononormativity
B. bisexuality
C. polyamory
D. intersectionality
Learning Objective: 1-6: Discuss sexual minorities beyond lesbian and gay.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Sexual Relationships: Beyond Monogamy
Difficulty Level: Hard
14. What sexual behavior is preferred by teenagers?
A. kissing
B. oral sex
C. sexual intercourse
D. mutual masturbation
Learning Objective: 1-4: Depict sexuality across the life course.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Adolescent Sexuality
Difficulty Level: Easy
15. How were the sexual practices of BDSM viewed historically?
A. as symptomatic of mental illness
B. as consensual experimentation
C. as acceptable only in monogamous relationships
D. as falling outside the sexual hierarchy
Learning Objective: 1-6: Discuss sexual minorities beyond lesbian and gay.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sexual Minorities Beyond LGBTQ
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. ______ allows us to study how Black men are hypersexualized while Asian men are desexualized.
A. Intersectionality
B. Stereotyping
C. Essentialism
D. Heteronormativity
Learning Objective: 1-5: Explain the sexualization of racial/ethnic minorities.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Sexualizing Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. Imagine two female performers kiss each other as part of a live performance. This exemplifies which concept?
A. mononormativity
B. heteronormativity
C. heteroflexibility
D. pansexuality
Learning Objective: 1-1: Describe the sociological approach to the study of sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Sociology of Sexualities
Difficulty Level: Medium
True/False
1. Stereotypes about sexuality are less gendered for seniors compared to young adults.
Learning Objective: 1-4: Depict sexuality across the life course.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Sexuality and the Aged
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. Contemporary sexual stereotypes for Black men reflect historical stereotypes that labeled Black men as threats to White women.
Learning Objective: 1-5: Explain the sexualization of racial/ethnic minorities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sexualizing Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Difficulty Level: Hard
3. Biological determinism is a form of essentialism.
Learning Objective: 1-2: Explain what it means to say that sexuality is socially constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Evidence of the Social Construction of Sexuality
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. The sexual revolution in Russia led to better sex education in the country.
Learning Objective: 1-3: Identify key characteristics of a sexual revolution.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Box 1.1 Global/Transnational Perspectives on Sexuality: The Sexual Revolution in Russia
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Pansexuality is the same thing as bisexuality.
Learning Objective: 1-2: Explain what it means to say that sexuality is socially constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Terminology
Difficulty Level: Medium
Short Answer
1. Provide three examples of binary categories in culture, and explain how they are being challenged.
Learning Objective: 1-2: Explain what it means to say that sexuality is socially constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Sexual Binaries
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. Define the sexual double standard.
Learning Objective: 1-2: Explain what it means to say that sexuality is socially constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sexual Socialization
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Briefly describe a sexual script in our culture.
Learning Objective: 1-2: Explain what it means to say that sexuality is socially constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Sexual Socialization
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Explain how sexual stereotypes reflect inequality in society.
Learning Objective: 1-5: Explain the sexualization of racial/ethnic minorities.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Sexualizing Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Difficulty Level: Hard
5. Define polyamory.
Learning Objective: 1-6: Discuss sexual minorities beyond lesbian and gay.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sexual Relationships: Beyond Monogamy
Difficulty Level: Easy
Essay
1. Explain the sociological approach to the study of sexuality. How is it different from a biological or psychological approach?
Learning Objective: 1-1: Describe the sociological approach to the study of sexuality.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Sociology of Sexualities
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. What does it mean to say that sexuality is socially constructed? Provide three pieces of evidence that support the argument that sexuality is a social construction.
Learning Objective: 1-2: Explain what it means to say that sexuality is socially constructed.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Evidence of the Social Construction of Sexuality
Difficulty Level: Hard
3. Using concepts from the text, make an argument that we are currently in a historical era that later generations will look back on and describe as a sexual revolution. Now make the counterargument: provide evidence that shows that we are probably NOT currently in a sexual revolution.
Learning Objective: 1-3: Identify key characteristics of a sexual revolution.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Sexual Revolutions
Difficulty Level: Hard
4. Describe sexuality across the life course, identifying sexual changes over the life course that are socially constructed and those that are biological.
Learning Objective: 1-4: Depict sexuality across the life course.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sexuality Across the Life Course
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Describe the sexual hierarchy, and analyze why certain groups are placed at the top and others near the bottom.
Learning Objective: 1-6: Discuss sexual minorities beyond lesbian and gay.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Sexual Minorities Beyond LGBTQ
Difficulty Level: Hard
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