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11) Which of the following statements best reflects feminist theories? a. Men and women should be social and political equals. b. Men and women are social and political equals. c. Interests of society reflect those of both men and women. d. Feminist theories argue that society is characterized by equality between men and women. 12) Which of the following does not reflect Dorothy Smith’s sociological approach? a. The objective is to explicate how people’s lives are socially organized. b. Contemporary sociological theory produces objectified forms of knowledge. c. Sociology is and has been male-centered. d. Her approach is not interested in how people’s everyday/night lives are organized. 13) Smith refers to the influential social relations that are not wholly discoverable within our everyday worlds as a. extenuating circumstances. b. structural variables. c. external social facts. d. extra-local social relations. 14) Extra-local social relations refers to a. how race is inextricable from gender. b. how societal relations organize people not just locally but outside these worlds. c. how people’s knowings are constituted through discourse. d. Smith’s use of the term “standpoint.” 15) The starting point of sociological inquiry, according to Smith, should be a. experience. b. class location. c. gender. d. the Archimedean point. 16) Which answer best reflects Dorothy Smith’s sociology? a. It is macrosociological in focus because it produces accounts of social processes. b. It is microsociological in focus because it is rooted in the microcosms of daily life. c. It is a sociology of people. d. Its aim is to produce workable accounts, located in people’s actual experiences, that tell people how things happen. 17) “My life experiences had shown me that the two issues were inseparable, that at the moment of my birth, two facts determined my destiny, my having been born black and my having been born female.” This statement was written by _______ and supports _______. a. bell hooks; race is inextricable from gender b. Dorothy Smith; race is inextricable from gender c. bell hooks; the intersection of androcentrism and feminism d. Dorothy Smith; the intersection of race, class, and gender 18) A central concern in the writings of hooks is how black women’s identities have too often been a. erased. b. marginalized. c. ridiculed. d. ignored. 19) Post-structuralism is concerned with a. how scientific knowledge is key to human freedom. b. how scientific knowledge and ideas about “truth” stand outside of power relations. c. how knowledge is produced scientifically. d. how knowledge is produced socially. 20) Post-structuralists challenge the view that scientific knowledge, or ideas about absolute “truth,” can ever stand outside of __________ relations. a. class b. gender c. power d. Eurocentric