SOCI 200 MCQs 3+4

• Cisnormativity is the idea that one has to be either male or female since birth and live for their whole life.
• Heteronormativity means everyone is assumed to be straight; excludes LGBTQ
• Colonialism is the act of one group dominating and displacing another socially, politically, geographically, and legally.
• LGBT decriminalization - 1968-9 took legal affect by Pierre Trudeau stating how government doesn't have control over bedroom activities
• LGBT criminalization took place from 1950s-60's until '69 by Pierre Trudeau
• Conversion therapy is the clinical and psychological method to try and change someone's gender identity; usually unsuccessful.
• HIV and LGBTQ - since 1989, those with HIV have been charged with serious criminal offences for not disclosing their HIV status before engaging in sexual activities that pose “significant risk” of transmission
• "Social organization of forgetting" refers to the way a society tries to remember or erase certain events of LGBTQ such as lack of media representation, erasure of history, and stigmatization
• The stonewall uprising is a series of protests and political actions from a police bar raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City (June 1969), back when homosexuality was still illegal in the US.
• Homonormativity refers to the belief that sexual minorities should conform to heteronormative institutions to be greater accepted into dominant society
• Sex / gender binary means there can only be male or female. Different from heteronormativity as this is about one's own gender specifically.
• Mononormativity, the idea of monogamy, having one sexual/romantic partner at a time is more healthy and natural compared to polyamory (several at a time).
• The "Standard North American Family" refers to the idea that both parents are cisgender and heterosexual along with their kids, and follow white, middle-class standards.
• Reproductive technologies are methods that prevent reproduction such as contraception, abortion, pregnancy testings, etc.
• Passionate love refers to more of casual intimate relationships unlike committed love and relationships.
• Individualization is the idea that oneself is becoming the central unit of social life, changing the idea of what creating a family means
• "Filles du roi", or daughters of the King, were ~700 women sent from France to Quebec between 1663 and 1673 to marry men they had never met and raise families in New France (Quebec).
• Sexual scripts are stereotypical images of how a man and woman act in intimate relationships, such as when women hookup they're considered "sluts" whereas when men do it it's just a "guy thing".
• Independent life stage is when a young adult lives away from their parents and is socially and sexually independent
• Demographic transition theory:

  • high fertility/mortality rates in societies with LOW technology, education, and economy (third world countries)
  • low fertility / mortality rates in advanced countries (Canada)
• Biopolitics: human biology + politics/government

  • focuses on healthcare systems and lifestyles of individuals
  • hence why hospitals are managed by the government