Chapter 1: Orientation: Basic Terms and Concepts
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Q1) An argument for continuing to ask people about race in the Census is that
A) Census data and other federal data on race permit the measurement of housing and education segregation and racial inequalities in income and employment
B) There is no category that accurately measures multiracial people
C) Multiracial people have often been measured in ways that are racist
D) People often choose different categories for the same multiracial group
Answer: A
Q2) Arrangements or practices in social institutions and their related organization that tend to favor one racial or ethnic group (usually the majority group)over another is called:
A) Ideological racism
B) Individual prejudice
C) Institutional racism
D) Individual discrimination
Answer: C
Q3) A majority group is the largest numerical racial or ethnic group in a society.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Prejudice: Its Forms and Causes
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Q1) Prejudice is learned through all of the following socialization processes EXCEPT:
A) Modeling
B) Reward and punishment
C) Internalization
D) Socioeconomic status
Answer: D
Q2) According to Adorno,which of the following is part of the process by which prejudiced persons develop personality needs for projection and scapegoating?
A) Very lax child rearing practices
B) Being taught in childhood to question authority
C) Inability to release frustration against authority figures who are the source of the frustration
D) Aggression is taken out against those who are high in the individual's ranking system
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Reducing Prejudice: How Achievable? How
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Q1) Research suggests that the most important factor for bringing about long-term attitude changes through the use of persuasive communication is the:
A) Credibility of the source
B) Strength of the conviction of the source
C) Personal attractiveness of the source
D) Personableness of the source
Answer: A
Q2) According to Merton's topology of prejudice and discrimination which type of person is unprejudiced and does not discriminate?
A) The timid bigot
B) The all-weather liberal
C) The all-weather bigot
D) The fair-weather liberal
Answer: B
Q3) Most of the white respondents to Gallup polls as recently as 1997,express a desire to live in all white neighborhoods.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Macro-Sociological Perspectives: The Order and Conflict Models
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Q1) Conflict theory sees society as tending toward equilibrium and stability.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Conflict theorists:
A) Agree that the family structure (lifestyle choices) of the poor is an important cause of poverty
B) Deny that family structure is related to poverty
C) Argue that poverty is the cause of the family structure in poor families
D) Believe that family structure is inevitably linked to race
Q3) According to conflict theorists stratification exists because:
A) It meets the needs of society as a whole
B) Some people fill more important jobs than other people
C) It serves the interests of the dominant group
D) It promotes the self-interests of the poor
Q4) Which theory looks at three classes: those who own the means of production,higher-paid laborers,and lower-paid laborers?
A) Split labor market theory
B) Internal colonialism theory
C) Culture of poverty theory
D) Marxist theory
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Chapter 5: Origins and Causes of Ethnic Inequality
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Q1) When the group into which one is born,totally determines one's opportunities throughout life,this status is called:
A) Ascribed
B) Achieved
C) Mandated
D) Social
Q2) Which of the following is regarded as an important cause of black slavery in the United States?
A) Indians were not racially identifiable
B) White indentured servants could run away and join their tribal groups
C) Blacks were in a strange land involuntarily
D) Indians were not used to the heat of the south and were more susceptible to illnesses from mosquitoes
Q3) A caste system is one in which:
A) There are rigidly defined unequal groups in which membership is passed from generation to generation.
B) There is inequality, but one's status is not determined by birth
C) Achieved status is emphasized
D) A marriage partner may be chosen from any group
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Chapter 6: Changing Patterns of Majority-Minority
Relations in the United States
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Q1) Which group would be considered a colonized minority in the United States?
A) African Americans
B) Irish Americans
C) Italian Americans
D) Asian Americans
Q2) Asian-Americans can be classified as members of the:
A) Dominant group
B) Immigrant minority
C) Colonized minority
D) Somewhere between immigrant and colonized minorities
Q3) Reconstruction substantially improved the condition of southern blacks.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What was the Jim Crow system and how did the Southern White elite establish this system after reconstruction?
Q5) The Brown versus Board of Education case in 1954 abolished:
A) Prejudice
B) The "separate but equal" doctrine
C) Restrictive housing covenants
D) Overt discrimination in privately owned businesses
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Chapter 8: Changing Values, Goals, and Models: New
Thinking on Assimilation, Pluralism, and Separatism
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Q1) Interracial marriage is a small minority of all marriages.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When groups in society retain some social structures and institutions of their own but share others it is called:
A) Structural pluralism
B) Structural assimilation
C) Cultural assimilation
D) Cultural pluralism
Q3) When two or more social groups come to share one common social structure it is called:
A) Structural assimilation
B) Cultural assimilation
C) Separatism
D) Pluralism
Q4) Pluralism happens when two or more groups come to share a common culture or common attitudes,values and lifestyles.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) What is Anglo conformity and how had education played a role in this process?
Chapter 9: Cross-Cultural Studies of Majority-Minority Relations
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Q1) Current opposition in the United States to immigration is greatest for which ethnic or racial groups?
A) Those from the Middle East
B) Those from Haiti, Asia, Africa and Latin America
C) Those from Eastern Europe
D) Those from Cuba and Puerto Rico
Q2) When an indigenous group is made subordinate to another group entering from the outside,the result is usually:
A) Conflict and ethnic inequality
B) Cooperation and ethnic assimilation
C) Conflict and ethnic assimilation
D) Some combination of the above
Q3) The reason for Hawaii's harmonious race relations is due to:
A) Strongly enforced state laws about racism
B) Strong religious values of the population
C) The fact that Hawaii has a very homogenous population in terms of race
D) The local population was never conquered or subordinated to racial or ethnic groups
Q4) What is ethnic cleansing and how was it used in the former Yugoslavia?
Q5) How is colonization a factor in racial conflict in most countries?
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Chapter 10: The Status of Majority and Minority Groups in the
United States Today
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Q1) The Chicano population is heavily concentrated in the Northeast.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which minority group lost ground since 1978 in its median family income as compared to whites?
A) African Americans
B) Hispanics
C) Native Americans
D) Asian Americans
Q3) Approximate equality has been reached among whites,blacks and Hispanics in the area of:
A) Income
B) Unemployment
C) Education
D) None of the above
Q4) Native Americans make up what percentage of the U.S.population?
A) 25%
B) 10%
C) 15%
D) 1.7%
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Chapter 11: The Economic and Health Care Systems and Minority Groups in America
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Q1) Minority group members suffer from more health disadvantages than do whites in all the following ways EXCEPT:
A) They are more likely to die in infancy
B) They live longer lives
C) Suffer more frequent and more serious illnesses
D) Suffer more illnesses that limit their daily activities
Q2) All of the following are reasons why minorities do not get the health care they need EXCEPT:
A) Health is expensive
B) Incompatibility of middle-class and traditional medicine
C) Lack of minority physicians
D) Surplus of physicians in inner-city, urban areas
Q3) The fiscal crisis of cities has lead to all of the following EXCEPT:
A) Library hours and locations have expanded
B) Police and fire protection has been reduced
C) Education has been cut back
D) Public hospitals have been closed
Q4) Why are minority physicians such an important element in American health care? Why is the supply of minority physicians so limited?
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Chapter 12: Living Apart: Housing Segregation in America
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Q1) According to research by Massey and others,segregation reduces the quality of life of the black middle class.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Blacks are relatively underrepresented in the suburbs.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The people disproportionately affected by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 were:
A) White
B) African American
C) Cuban American
D) Mexican American
Q4) The net effect of job shifts from cities to suburbs is to take jobs out of areas where blacks and Hispanics live.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Industrial jobs have moved out of central cities.How has this hurt African Americans? Why don't African Americans move to the suburbs to follow the jobs?
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Chapter 13: The American Political and Legal System and
Majority-Minority Relations
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Q1) Minority votes make a difference in elections:
A) If there is a minority candidate
B) Only if the race is relatively close
C) If they are congregated in a geographic area
D) Especially if the candidate is a white liberal
Q2) Some studies have found higher rates of school problems among teenagers whose mothers were in the welfare-to-work program.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is true about the decision to arrest?
A) Police can usually tell if an illegal act has been committed so they always know when to arrest people
B) Police are more likely to find more crime among groups where they don't expect it because they like to surprise themselves
C) Police are no more likely to stop or arrest members of minority groups than members of majority groups
D) Police are more likely to stop and to arrest minority group members
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Chapter 14: Education and American Minority Groups
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Q1) The Coleman report found that underachieving students tended to all the following EXCEPT:
A) Have a poor self-image
B) Be uninterested in school
C) Believe they could not control their environment
D) Were likely to come from schools that were under funded
Q2) In a study by Harvey and Slatin (1975),teachers were given pictures of children and asked to evaluate their chances of success.They said:
A) Any of these children could succeed
B) They were concerned about children who were shorter than average
C) They had much higher expectations for white students
D) They had much higher expectations for black students
Q3) According to the Coleman report,_____________ was the most important factor in student achievement.
A) The educational funding level
B) Teacher training
C) The quality of school facilities
D) The student's background
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Chapter 15: Current Trends in Majority-Minority Relations
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Q1) Which of the following is true about the results of tests done on discrimination in hiring for jobs?
A) Hispanic job applicants rarely encounter discrimination
B) White names on applications resulted in fewer call-backs for interviews than black names
C) Whites with a criminal record were more likely to be called back for an interview than an African American without a record
D) There was no difference by race in the percentage of call backs for job applicants with criminal records
Q2) Taking diversity courses leads to all of the following EXCEPT:
A) Increased commitment to social action
B) Increased positive interaction with social groups different from one's own
C) Improvements in critical thinking
D) Improvements in motor skills
Q3) Racial remarks are best ignored in the work place.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe how "consulting pairs" work.
Q5) Name and describe two causes for increased hate-group activities.
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Chapter 16: Current Debates: Affirmative Action,
Immigration, and Race Versus Class
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Q1) If whites believe that the system is basically fair they are less likely to support affirmative action.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discriminatory processes in education include all of the following EXCEPT:
A) Unequal funding of schools
B) Afrocentric content in educational materials
C) Unequal expectations of student achievement
D) Tracking and ability grouping
Q3) Opposition to the building of the fence along the border with Mexico have included all the following groups EXCEPT:
A) Indian Reservations
B) Ranchers who live along the border
C) Wildlife protection groups like Sierra Club
D) NAACP
Q4) The salaries of black male college graduates have surpassed the earnings of white male college graduates.
A)True
B)False
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