Chapters 1-3

The two groups projected yo increase dramatically in the United States over the next half of century are:

Asian and Pacific Islanders and Hispanic Americans

The population of the US is currently:

Affected by long-standing unresolved minority issues, affected by rising immigration rates, increasingly diverse, increasingly multilingual

The largest minority group in the US is:

Hispanics

Which of the following would be classified as a primarily and ethnic minority group?

Jewish Americans

In the next 50 years, the total percentage of minority group Americans is projected to increase to:

50%

Which of the following is NOT an example of a cultural trait that may be associated with minority status?

Facial features

Which of the following characteristics is NOT typical of ascribed status?

It can be altered through hard work and motivation

Stratification is another term for:

The unequal distribution of valued resources

Societies are divided into horizontal layers (or strata) often called:

Social classes

"The most important source of inequality arises from a persons relationship to the means of production." This statement might be heard from a:

Marxist

Marked believed that conflict between the bourgeoisie or and the proletart was inevitable and that the ultimate result of this class struggle would be:

The victory of the working class, the creation of a utopian society without exploitation, coercion, or inequality, a classless society

According to Lenski’s theory, inequality in a postindustrial society would center on control of:

Educational opportunities and technologies

Women can be viewed as a minority group because:

They are physically identifiable as different from men and they have less property, prestige and power in our society

At the individual level, the "thinking/feeling" dimension of minority group mistreatment is called:

Prejudice

A person sees a Mexican American male and assumes he is an illegal immigrant. This is an example of:

Stereotyping

When entire groups are treated unfairly and unequal in the institutions of the larger society, this is called:

Institutional discrimination

According to your book, which of the following could not be considered minorities:

Whites

Societies that I have a tradition of male dominance where men have more control over the economy and leadership positions in religion, politics, and other institutions are:

Patriarchal

Compared to the past, American prejudice today can be described as more:

Subtle

The distinction between prejudice and discrimination is:

Prejudice is an attitude; discrimination is a behavior

Ideological racism is a belief system that asserts that a particular group is inferior. In other words, it is the group or societal equivalent of individual prejudice

True

Groups that are defined primarily by their culture characteristics are called racial minority groups

False

Interracial marriages were illegal in some states in the United States until the late 1960s

True

Max Weber distinguish three different sources of stratification in society class, prestige, and power

True

The social conception of race retains a great deal of strength in every day life in the United States

True

The process of assimilation could be illustrated by

And immigrant learning the language of her new country

Pluralism exist when

Groups remain separate, and their culture and social differences persist over time

Melting pot is a term for

The traditional perspective on assimilation, how diverse people helped to construct US society, assimilation as egalitarian and benign, A process that emphasizes sharing and inclusion

A politician states in a campaign speech that "it is in evitable that our group differences will disappear as we grow and mature as a society." The statement because the thinking of

Robert park

Social structure is divided into primary and secondary sector’s. primary sectors refers to

Interpersonal relationships that are intimate and personal such as families and friendship groups

It is common in sociology to separate the social structure in a primary and secondary sectors. Which of the following categories is considered part of the primary sector?

Families

___________ assimilation occurs when a minority group enters a secondary sector of the larger society and occupies the same public institution such as churches, clubs, schools, and workplaces

Structural

According to Milton Gordman, integration in the secondary sector will lead to

Integration in the primary sector

Which of the following theories argues that status attainment is a direct result of educational levels, personal values and skills

Human capital Theory

Which inter-marriage best eliminates Kennedys concept of the "triple melting pot"

And marriage between Polish Jewish man and a Russian Jewish woman

The concept of multiculturalism includes

The idea of Mutual respect for all groups and heritages

The Amish are committed to a way of life organized around farming. They maintain a culture and an institutional life that is separate from the dominant culture. The kind of pluralism the best describes and is

Cultural pluralism

Park felt that intergroup relationships go through a predictable set of phases that he called

A "race relations cycle"

When the goal of the minority group is to sever all ties with the largest city, this is called

Separatism

Gordon argue that the most significant structural unit within US society was defined by the intersection of the religious/ethnic and social class boundaries. He called this

Ethclass

Friends are to the primary sector as_______________Are to the secondary sector

Task orientated groups

In Milton Gordon stages of assimilation, what phase immediately precedes marital assimilation

Primary structural integration

____________ establish their own neighborhood and rely on a set of interconnected businesses, each of which is usually small in scope, for economic survival

Enclave minorities

Ethclass is defined by their intersection of

Religion, ethnic, and social class

Human capital serious believe that the greatest investment in__________The higher the person’s chances of success

Education, personal values, and skills

Gordman’s believe that assimilation is inevitable in a democratic and industrial society and Val is a predictable cycle

False

A "middleman Minority" establishes it’s a neighborhood and relies on a set of interconnected businesses for its economic survival

False

"Sojourners" or "birds of Assage" is the term used her for immigrants who intended to remain in United States to accumulate wealth and then return to the old country

True

Education is a key factor in successful assimilation today

True

Prejudice is to discrimination as

Thinking is to doing

__________Are exaggerated generalizations about groups of people and tend to be overly simplistic and difficult to prove

Stereotypes

Selective perception

Is a tendency to see only want one expect to see

Which of the following represent the two types of stereotypes

An African-American is described as being lazy, irresponsible, and not intelligent; Chinese-American is described to be very crafty, to sly, or too ambitious

Which of the following is an example of selective perception

Seeing a Native American who is drinking in a bar but not noticing the Native American who is neatly dressed in a three-piece Armani suit; seeing the old man who pulls out on the freeway at 35 miles an hour while ignoring the good driver who happened to be elderly; not pressuring that an NFL football player could be gait; assuming that the female doctor is really nurse

Stereotypes very by

Race, gender, class

The one common factor that seems to account for the origin of all prejudice is

Competition between groups

In sheriffs Roberts cave experiment

None of the above

One problem with the scapegoat hypothesis is that it

Deemphasize is the economic, political, and social forces that shape behavior

According to Marxism, qthe capitalist class is the early 20th-century control the racial mix working-class by

Strategy of divide and conquer

Which of the following is not to be an important cause of authoritarian personalities

Childhood experiences in excessively strict home situations

In the American dilemma Dr. Gunnar Myrdal suggest that there is a basic conflict for dominance between

Basically Egalitarian values in the discriminatory behavior simultaneously found in US culture

The Roberts can experiment support the idea that prejudice can be caused by

Conflict situations between groups

"Delete segments of American society are using prejudice and racism to manipulate the thoughts and ideas of minority groups into brainwash them into accepting a position in society" this statement is most consistent with

Marxist analysis

Which of the following best explains irrational forms of prejudice

Increasing education and hate crimes

The idea that racism is changing forM to a More Subtle Way of expressing negative feelings is called

Modern racism

Which of the following are the key actors, according to split market theorists

Capitalists, higher-priced labor, lower-priced labor

Most reported hate crimes are

Racially motivated, with blacks as a target

Marxism also explains a group competition and prejudice by suggesting

Elites control the means of production and also the idea and intellectual activity in the society

Herbert Blumer says prejudice________

Is activated and groups feel that they are threatened by groups they see as beneath them

One of the variables that researchers suggest is the cause of the declining prejudice is

Education

Stereotypes are central to the active dimension of prejudice

False

All intergroup contact racist prejudice

False

Children as young as 5 to 6 months are capable of distinguishing some aspects of gender and race between categories of people

True

According to the social theory, prejudice can be attributed to conflict and power struggle between groups

False

According to power/conflict theory prejudice is not a matter of childhood experiences, social distance, or personal likes and dislikes, prejudice exist because someone or some group gains by it

True