Deck 7: Working With Diversity

Question 1

Name four of the laws that have been passed in recent years against immigrants, bilingual education, and multicultural curricula.

Answer 1

The 1996 Immigration Act; the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act; California's Proposition 187; California's Proposition 209; California's Proposition 227, English Only laws in several states.

Question 2

Define the bicultural theory of culture.

Answer 2

Although people are socialized into their minority culture through family and ethnic community, they are also influenced by the dominant culture through social institutions and the mass media.

Question 3

Name some of the factors that influence how a person feels about people of differing ethnicities from themselves.

Answer 3

• Whether or not one had contact with people of differing ethnicity while growing up.
• Parental and peer influences.
• Whether one's school and community were integrated.
• Diversity or lack of it in school textbooks.
• Lack of diversity in public roles attitudes.
• Information purveyed by the media.

Question 4

Discuss how the media perpetuates stereotypes of different racial groups.

Question 5

Name some of the factors that influence how ethnicity is felt and expressed by any one individual.

Question 6

Define institutional racism and give an example of institutional racism in agency practice.

Question 7

Give some guidelines for ethnic-sensitive human service work.

Question 8

Name some of the new social services created by the women's movement.

Question 9

How did the feminist approach to battered women differ from the traditional approach?

Question 10

What are some of the insights of feminist theory? When feminists proposed changes in the New York City child welfare system, what feminist insights did they use in their analysis of the system?

Question 11

The founding fathers of the U.S. wanted everyone in the country to be a full-fledged citizen.

Question 12

White people have an accurate perception of the socio-economic status of black people.

Question 13

The most effective change in social attitudes is brought about by:

A) Talking with people one by one.
B) Posters and billboards.
C) TV documentaries.
D) Large scale social movements.
E) Punishment for bad attitudes.

Question 14

The best approach toward ethnicity for a human service worker is to ignore it.

Question 15

The melting pot theory of culture assumed that people of differing ethnicities from the dominant culture should:

A) Cherish their own identity.
B) Stay separate.
C) Assimilate to the dominant culture.
D) Challenge the dominant culture
E) Become subservient.

Question 16

The cultural deficit theory of culture assumed that minority cultures could help the dominant culture make up for their deficient understanding of culture.

Question 17

A minority group is the same thing as an ethnic group.

Question 18

Anthropologists currently find race a useful concept in studying groups of people.

Question 19

The anthropologist, Oscar Lewis believed that social class was a more powerful determinant of behavior than ethnicity.

Question 20

When he studied rich children, Robert Coles found that one of their most outstanding attitudes was

A) Humility.
B) Sense of style.
C) Sense of entitlement.
D) Cynicism.
E) Sense of humor.

Question 21

According to Gordon Allport's study, a racist often appears to be:

A) Free of guilt.
B) Eager to change.
C) A good family man.
D) Trusting.
E) A super-patriot.

Question 22

If all workers in an agency were free of racism, the agency could not have racist policies.

Question 23

Black youth are more likely to have their deviant behavior dealt with by the criminal justice system than by the mental health system.

Question 24

White youth are more likely to have their deviant behavior dealt with by the criminal justice system than by the mental health system.

Question 25

What factors lead to an increase in crime?

A) Low income
B) Unemployment
C) Gender
D) Age
E) All of the above

Question 26

Prisons are successful in lowering the crime rate.

Question 27

Black people use more drugs than white people.

Question 28

Federal support for affirmative action has increased since the 1980s.

Question 29

Employers can be fined and sentenced to prison for hiring undocumented immigrants.

Question 30

The largest group of immigrants to use public services is

A) farm workers.
B) sweat shop workers.
C) contract laborers.
D) political immigrants.
E) skilled workers.

Question 31

The Personal Responsibility Act of 1996 denied federal help to legal immigrants in the SSI, food stamp, and Medicaid programs.

Question 32

California passed a law that ended bilingual education in the state.

Question 33

One should maintain a very formal relationship with clients from Latino backgrounds.

Question 34

A feminist analysis of the child welfare system in New York City showed that child welfare agencies often remove children from the home rather than remove the father who has been battering his wife.

Question 35

Which of the following definitions of disability currently the most favorable?

A) The medical model
B) The psychosocial model
C) The economic model
D) The functional limitation model

Question 36

Disabled people have a higher rate of unemployment than most others in society.