1.3 AICE SOCIOLOGY Identities

A new working class has developed due to: (3)

• changes from manufacturing work to service work

• Working class people becoming more Home centered

• changes in attitude about work being a means to the creation of a comfortable life

• changes in ideas about masculinity and femininity

Which of the following would be considered a middle class identity (3)

• Professionals such as Doctors 

• Managers of companies 

• Service industry workers such as hair dressers and waiters 

• Nurses and consultants

What are the two grouping for upper class identities? (2)

• Landed aristocracy

• Professors and intellectuals

• Business Elite

• Routine service providers

The two dominant gender identities are: (2)

• Contingent femininities 

• Hegemonic masculinity

• Marginalised masculinity 

• Emphasised Femininity

Which of the following is NOT a way in which children are socialised into gender roles (suggested by Oakley)

• By manipulation of appearance or character traits

• By channeling children's time into different activities

• By verbal appeal

• By modeling parents and others doing

• By biological programmers

  "Biogrammers"

What type of femininities have developed as a reflection of women's changing position in society? (4)

• Mondernised femininities 

• Autonomous femininities 

• Assertive femininities

• Contingent femininities 

• Aging femininities

What characterizes a marginalised masculinity?

• Long term unemployment means the male is not a provider for the family

• New and feminised man 

• Has physical or mental disabilities 

• alternate masculinities not associated with traditional roles 

Ethnicity is not the same as (all caps)

(a)  

Which of the following are part of a person's Ethnicity? (3)

• religion

• family structures

• Beliefs, Values and Norms

• gender identity

Which feminine identity competes with men?

• Contingent

  Femininities

• Assertive Femininities

• Ageing femininities

• Autonomous Femininities