SCI Studies

Question 1

Which Mary argued that in Western cultures, the role of homosexual males involves expectations?

Accepted Answer

Mary McIntosh

Question 2

Denscombe (2001) looked at the increase in female risk taking particularly smoking and

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wanting to be seen as anything but stereotypical women

Question 3

Supporting Mcintosh, Plummer (1996) identifies

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the homosexual career

Question 4

Canteen Culture is coined by...

Accepted Answer

Waddington (1999)

Question 5

Judith Harris (1998) looked at comparative influence of parents and peer group concluding...

Accepted Answer

that the peer group can be more influential than the family

Question 6

Who looked at the pressure put on teenage girls by peers

Accepted Answer

Sue Lees (1983, 1997) she found double standards around sex

Question 7

Who called white males whose dress is influenced by black hip hop 'white wannabes'

Accepted Answer

Nayak (2003)

Question 8

Friendship among teenage girls and how they are effected by power and patriarchy was studied by

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Hey (1997)

Question 9

Wilson (1975) argues

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Saw gender with a biological view, Men need to be more promiscuous, 'spreading the seed'

Question 10

Who uses the concept of 'cultural comfort zones'

Accepted Answer

Tony Sewell (2000)

Question 11

Reiss'(1961) study found young male prostitutes regarded themselves as

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heterosexual, despite have sex with men

Question 12

Weeks (1987) points out that sexuality is more significant issue for some as

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not many would say ' I am heterosexual'

Question 13

Who explored how boys learn to be men in their peer groups in school,

Accepted Answer

Mac and Ghail (1994)

Question 14

Jackson (2006) found that 'ladette' girls spent time

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drinking, smoking, swearing and disrupting lessons

Question 15

Who argues that it is wrong to group a whole continent into the group 'Asians' is wrong?

Accepted Answer

Modood (1997)

Question 16

Which of the following are books published by Susan Faludi?

Accepted Answer

Stiffed: The Betrayal of American men (1999), In Backlash: The undeclared war against American women (1993

Question 17

Dawney (2008) found what about racism in rural areas

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had no basis in reality, came from a perceived threat and fear of numbers

Question 18

Who researched ethnic identity In the traveller community?

Accepted Answer

Francis and Archer (2005), Song (1997), Derrington and Kendell (2004)

Question 19

Which sociologist coined the phrase the 'male gaze'

Accepted Answer

Mulvey (1975) describes how cameras in films 'eyes up' women

Question 20

Ann Oakley is...

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Look at gender role socialisation, A feminist sociologist, Came up with the four ways families socialise kids

Question 21

Modood and Berthoud (1997)

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67% of Pakastanis & Bangladeshis saw religion as 'important', Compared to 5% of white British

Question 22

Who said we now live in a global village?

Accepted Answer

McLuhan (1964)

Question 23

Which Marxist sociologists felt the hidden curriculum was a 'myth making machine'

Accepted Answer

Bowles and Gintis (1976)

Question 24

Sex and Temperament in 3 primitive societies by Mead (1935) found that...

Accepted Answer

Gender roles were very different than in the US.

Question 25

Jock Young (2007)

Accepted Answer

Bulimic Society - media is responsible for criminality

Question 26

Functionalist Parsons (1955) stated that

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Males have an 'instrumental role' in the family, Males have an 'instrumental role' in the family

Question 27

Mac and Ghaill also studied

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Gender power based on 'hyper masculinity', 'macho lads' who valued the 3 F's

Question 28

Who studied identical twins who were separated at birth?

Accepted Answer

Bouchard, the twins were very similar.

Question 29

Hewitt (2005) found...

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a 'backlash' against multiculturalism

Question 30

Who went to Wolverhampton and asked 'what is the most important thing about being a man?'

Accepted Answer

Canaan (1996) the responses were typical.

Question 31

Who uses the term crisis of masculinity?

Accepted Answer

Mac and Ghaill (1994)

Question 32

Who argues that womens sexuality is oppressed by men in patriarchal society

Accepted Answer

Rich (1980)

Question 33

Spencer et al (2007) found

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European migrants spend little time socialising with British

Question 34

Ghumann (1999) found that tradition , religion and family played an

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important part in the upbringing of second generation Asians, was unimportant to second generation Asians

Question 35

Skelton & Francis (2003) looked at

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Peer groups in primary schools, found play was very gendered

Question 36

Sexuality around the world was studied by Quinn (2001) they found that

Accepted Answer

Many Native tribes celebrated same sex relationships

Question 37

Who argued the distinction between high and pop culture is the power of those that access it?

Accepted Answer

Bourdieu (1984)

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