COM 316 Exam 1 com 316 exam 2 questions and Correct Answers Graded A+
- Which type tends to have the highest levels of equality between partners?
- The most discrepancy in understandings of the purpose of communication?
- The highest levels of gendered role-playing?
- The highest levels of relationship satisfaction?
- Least likely to have an emotional leader or emotional nurturer?
- The closest example of a "best friend" relationship?
(hetero, gay and lesbian) - Correct Answer:1. lesbian
- hetero
- hetero
- lesbian
- gay
- lesbian
- different types of FwB and which was most frequently reported and some key gender
differences? - Correct Answer:1. just sex
- network opportunism
- successful transition in
- unintentional transition in
- transition out
4.failed transition in
men= just sex woman= failed transition in "strong gender differences exist in early relational sex"
According to Harvey, what were the key functions of the communication practice of
nick-naming? - Correct Answer:they felt like they were good enough to get one
According to Wood, what are some rules that govern a "man date"? - Correct Answer:sitting across the table, a walk in a botanical garden, attending an art gallery
Be familiar with Harvey's claims about why sports teams are interesting to study, particularly as organizational contexts where masculinity is performed. - Correct
Answer:common to hegemonic masculinity, covert intimacy
Be familiar with the design and key findings of the study of 600 Philippine men in relation to fatherhood and testosterone that was featured in class. - Correct Answer:men who had kids testosterone levels were lower because nature wants to help infants survive
Be familiar with the dynamics that produced core, central, and peripheral groups among the baseball players that Harvey studied. - Correct Answer:peripheral: "symbolic
woman" - core: hegemonic masculinity 1 / 2
Be familiar with the two-part study design in the Raffaelli and Ontai article. - Correct Answer:study 1: 22 latina women, curtailment, enforcement, different treatment
study 2: 166 latina men and women, tomboys, letitia and toys, fathers ore likely...
How does good performance of heterosexual "realness" create space for queerness? - Correct Answer:it allows them to live their true lives because they're putting yup a front to please their family leaving them to think they're children are doing what they want them to
How is it possible to think of reproduction as performance or performative? - Correct
Answer:giving family/parents what they want
In general, how does the theory of natural selection explain romantic love, sexual infidelity, and divorce in heterosexual relationships? - Correct Answer:martial subsystem and the parent-child subsystem
In our lead-up to discussion of the Huang and Brouwer essay, what were some examples of queer-family vocabularies and structures? - Correct Answer:vocab: family, my girls, friend of ellen, sister
structure: parter (not legal) and spouse (legal), marriage, fictive kin (chosen family), houses
In the Raffaelli and Ontai article, what important role did the same-sex parent play (e.g., the father for sons, and the mother for daughters)? - Correct Answer:through talk
In the theory of natural selection, why are families important units, or sites, for the study
of communication? - Correct Answer:2 drives, eat to survive and procreation
In their second study, what do Raffaelli and Ontai tell us about parents' attitudes toward
"tomboys"? - Correct Answer:looked at funny, doesn't make sense
ways in which they treat sexes differently or are disparately available to sexes (e.g., maternity and paternity leave in the U.S. and internationally). - Correct Answer:maternity differs in each country but maternity leave is better than paternity leave
What are important theses on "organizational culture"? - Correct Answer:1. constituted by formal and informal structures and practices
- reflect, create and sustain gender norms
What are some recurring patterns of interaction in female-female friendships - Correct
Answer:depth, attentive, emotionally supportive
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