Human beings are all members of |
a single biological species |
Sociologists define the concept of "race" as |
a socially constructed category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important. |
Which of the following concepts refers to a shared cultural heritage? |
ethnicity |
Race refers to _____ considered important by a society; ethnicity refers to _____. |
biological traits; cultural traits |
Which of the following concepts refers to a category of people, distinguished by physical or cultural traits, who are socially disadvantaged? |
minority |
Which of the following is the largest minority category within the U.S. population? |
people of Hispanic descent |
You would be expressing a "stereotype" if you |
described everyone in some category in the same way. |
Based on research using the social distance scale, you can correctly say that U.S. college students today |
1) express greater prejudice toward Arabs than African Americans. 2) see less difference between minority categories than students did fifty years ago. 3) ** All of these responses are correct. 4) are less prejudiced than students were fifty years ago. |
Scapegoat theory states that prejudice is created by |
frustration among disadvantaged people |
Authoritarian personality theory states that extreme prejudice is |
a trait of certain individuals with particular personalities. |
According to Theodor Adorno's authoritarian personality theory, prejudiced people |
view society as naturally hierarchical. |
A good example of the culture theory of prejudice is |
Bogardus's research on social distance. |
While prejudice is a matter of _____, discrimination is a matter of _____. |
attitude; action |
Institutional prejudice and discrimination refers to the fact that |
bias is built into the operation of social institutions |
The claim that defining members of some minority as inferior will make them inferior is one application of |
the Thomas theorem. |
Which of the following concepts refers to a state in which racial and ethnic minorities are distinct, but have more or less equal social standing? |
pluralism |
Assimilation refers to the process by which |
minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture. |
The Matsui family came to the United States from Japan thirty years ago. They now speak English at home and the Matsui children date non-Japanese students at college. This family's story best illustrates which of the following concepts? |
assimilation |
Which of the following concepts refers to biological reproduction by people of different racial categories? |
miscegenation |
Which of the following concepts refers to the physical and social separation of categories of people? |
segregation |
The killing of people in the Darfur region of Africa is a recent example of |
genocide. |
The ancestors of which of the following first settled in the Western Hemisphere? |
Native Americans |
Native Americans gained the right to U.S. citizenship in |
1924. |
People who are called "WASPs" have ancestors from which country? |
1) England 2) Wales 3) *** All of these are correct. 4) Scotland |
What Gunnar Myrdal called the "American dilemma" was |
the denial of basic rights to African Americans by a so-called "democratic society. |
A national civil rights movement, which ended most instances of lawful discrimination, took place during |
the 1950s and 1960s. |
Significant immigration of Asian Americans to the United States was first sparked by |
the California Gold Rush in 1849 |
Which of the following categories of the U.S. population is most likely to own and operate a small business? |
Korean Americans |
The Hispanic population of the United States is |
concentrated in the West, Southwest, and southern Florida. |
The concept "white ethnics" refers to |
non-WASPs of European ancestry. |