Module 8 Concept Questions Race and Gender
Instructions
Based on the assigned reading, answer all the following questions in your own words. Please make sure you write in complete sentences, and your answers are written clearly enough to be understood. If you do not understand one of the concepts, discuss what is unclear to you. All of your answers, together, must make up 150 words or more for you to earn credit.
RACE
1. What is the difference between the concepts of race and ethnicity?
2. What does it mean that race is socially constructed?
3. Discuss the major sociological theories of prejudice.
4. Compare and contrast the definitions of prejudice, discrimination, and racism.
5. Discuss the difference between individual and institutional discrimination.
GENDER
What is the difference between sex and gender?
What is the difference between masculinity and femininity?
What is gender socialization? Discuss the agents of gender socialization
How is gender socially constructed? How has the social construction of gender a part of social structure and how does it create inequalities between men & women. Are there other genders and where do they fall in the current social structure?
Compare and contrast competing explanations for gender inequality (conflict, functionalist and interactionism).
Describe how sexual orientation is a source of inequality
Discuss the forms of violence against women.
Discuss the benefits and costs of being a male.
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