Sociology of Men, Women, & Children
Test 2
Use these terms to help you study.
- How do sexual attitudes and behaviors vary across different age groups and around the globe?
- Sexual practices can differ greatly among groups. Many societies around the world have different attitudes about premarital sex, the age of sexual consent, homosexuality, masturbation, and other sexual behaviors that are not consistent with Norms regarding gender and sexuality vary across cultures.
- Define Sexual double standard?
- different provisions for one group of people than for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting.
- Karin A. Martin's research question?
- What is the relationship between sexuality and gender, between the control of sexual practices and the control of gender arrangements.
- Martin, Karin A. 1993. “Gender and Sexuality: Medical Opinion on Homosexuality, 1900-1950”. Gender & Society, Vol. 7, No. 2.
- Karin A. Martin's research main findings?
- Sexuality and Gender are controlled together.
- Martin, Karin A. 1993. “Gender and Sexuality: Medical Opinion on Homosexuality, 1900-1950”. Gender & Society, Vol. 7, No. 2.
- Marx Ferree and Hall's research method?
- Explored assumptions about gender and race in intro to sociology books. Looked at 3 levels of visual portrayal.
- Marx Ferree, Myra and Elaine J. Hall. 1990. “Visual Images of American Society: Gender and Race in Introductory Sociology Textbooks”. Gender & Society, Vol. 4, No. 4.
- How does the rate of substance abuse, sexual assault, homelessness, academic problems and risk-taking behavior among lesbian and gay adolescents differ from their heterosexual counterparts?
- The Suicide Prevention Resource Center synthesized these studies and estimated that between 30 and 40% of LGBT youth, depending on age and sex groups, have attempted suicide. A U.S. government study, titled Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Youth Suicide, published in 1989, found that LGBT youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide than other young people. "More than 34,000 people die by suicide each year," making it "the third leading cause of death among 15 to 24 year olds with lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth attempting suicide up to four times more than their heterosexual peers."
- What were the central aspects of women's struggles during the second wave of feminism?
- The second wave was associated with the ideas and actions of the women's liberation
- Define Sexual liberation?
- The sexual revolution was a social movement that challenged traditional codes of behavior related to sexuality and interpersonal relationships throughout the Western world from the 1960s to the 1980s.
- Define Sex tourism?
- the organization of vacations with the purpose of taking advantage of the lack of restrictions imposed on prostitution and other sexual activities by some foreign countries.
