Deck 5: Nativism and Racism

Question 1

There is massive evidence that visible,phenotypic races are:

A) pure.
B) moderately pure.
C) highly intermixed.
D) slightly intermixed.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Regardless of some of the struggles suffered by First and Second stream immigrants,________ ? have been more acceptable than non-whites in the United States.

A) Indians
B) Whites
C) Blacks
D) Mediterraneans

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Native workers and business owners considered Chinese laborers to be:

A) diligent.
B) slaves.
C) dependable.
D) expendable.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

These immigrants were perceived as being threats of revolutionaries.

A) Russians
B) Spanish
C) French
D) Germans

Question 5

Public statements by majority group members have become more ________ to minority groups ? over time in the United States.

A) hostile
B) virulent
C) diffuse
D) sympathetic

Question 6

In Katz and Braly's 1933 study,college students saw Turks as being:

A) intelligent.
B) mercenary.
C) lazy.
D) cruel.

Question 7

The lines between physical racial boundaries are:

A) NOT clear cut.
B) clear cut.
C) scientifically established.
D) politically based.

Question 8

America's nativist responses to immigrants included all of the following except:

A) attacks on Catholics.
B) attacks on Protestants.
C) attacks on illiteracy.
D) attacks on political rights of naturalized citizens.

Question 9

________ ________ is the feeling one group member has about how socially proximate another ? group's members should be able to interact with one's own.

A) Social distance
B) Social stigma
C) Social desirability
D) Social stratification

Question 10

The Immigration Act of 1924 modified the Immigration Act of 1917 in all of the following ways ? except:

A) changed the base year
B) made the annual quotas set at 165,000
C) raised annual quotas for all countries
D) began National-Origins principle in 1929

Question 11

The Immigration Act of 1924 resulted in a dramatic change in America's historic:

A) closed-door policy.
B) revolving-door policy.
C) open-door policy.
D) shut-tight door policy.

Question 12

Mead's 1934 theory focuses on how infants initially view the world from their own ________ ? perspective.

A) self
B) aggression
C) structural
D) authoritarian

Question 13

________ refers to an unfavorable attitude and perhaps an unfavorable action toward people ? who are members of a particular racial or ethnic group.

A) Ethnocentrism
B) Stereotypes
C) Racism
D) Sexism

Question 14

This researcher relied on estimates of heritability to calculate the relative contributions of ? heredity and environment to an individual's mental ability.

A) Herrnstein
B) Murray
C) Thurstone
D) Jensen

Question 15

All of the following categories address the theories of the ways prejudice are caused except:

A) cultural transmission
B) bound up in team sports
C) bound up in group memberships
D) personality structure of individual

Question 16

All of the following are criticisms of The Bell Curve,except:

A) misused media
B) misused statistics
C) It is a political brief.
D) It is really just social Darwinism.

Question 17

The tendency to rate all out-group members as lower than in-group members is called:

A) prejudice.
B) stereotypes.
C) ethnocentrism.
D) discrimination.

Question 18

Which region would be considered "superior" according to social Darwinistic ideology?

A) Nordic
B) Asian
C) Mediterranean
D) African

Question 19

The Civil War brought an end to the strife between the natives and first stream immigrants ? because:

A) most of the immigrants got killed.
B) most of the natives lost loved ones.
C) most of the immigrants proved their loyalty by fighting.
D) most of the non-Whites donated funds.

Question 20

In 1882 Congress passed this xenophobic act.

A) Chinese Exclusion Act
B) "Anti-Coolie" Act
C) "Yellow Peril Act"
D) Leland-Stanford Act

Question 21

The authors discuss the question,"Do some Americans still ________ today for being members ? of minorities?"

A) pay the price
B) suffer the pain
C) feel the joy
D) enjoy the benefits

Question 22

No Chinese helped to build U.S.railroads because of the laws.

Question 23

Gould argued that there were multiple types of intelligences.

Question 24

In 1999,the median income for Blacks in the United States was:

A) $51,224.
B) $26,789.
C) $45,190.
D) $31,788.

Question 25

By WWII most scholarly types felt that only heredity affected intelligence.

Question 26

Brigham (1923) found major problems with the Army intelligence tests.

Question 27

Taking out your frustration on an easy safe target is called:

A) violence.
B) scapegoating.
C) bull dogging.
D) social misalignment.

Question 28

The Bell Curve connected IQ to current social problems and race.

Question 29

Natives feared that European countries were using the United States as its dumping grounds.

Question 30

The authors argue that the door to America was always fully open.

Question 31

Both group conflict theories and institutional discrimination theories emphasize that ? discrimination has important sources other than:

A) group prejudices.
B) cultural themes in prejudices.
C) individual prejudices.
D) national norms.

Question 32

Bonacich's contribution is called:

A) scapegoating.
B) split-labor market theory.
C) self theory.
D) authoritarianism.

Question 33

Assuming that our actions are always caused by our attitudes is an example of the:

A) fundamental aggression error.
B) fundamental attribution error.
C) systemic deterioration theory.
D) systemic attribution theory.

Question 34

Prejudice and discrimination ________ go together.

A) always
B) do not necessarily
C) absolutely
D) never

Question 35

Most foreigners proved their loyalties during the Civil War.

Question 36

The Chinese rarely found justice for the violence committed against them.

Question 37

Respondents scoring high on the F-Score scored high on:

A) fascism.
B) frustration-aggression.
C) fanaticism.
D) forensic-orientation.

Question 38

All of the following are categorical theories of discrimination except:

A) aggression.
B) situation pressures.
C) group conflict.
D) institutional.

Question 39

LaPiere (1934) found that even though 92 percent of hotel owners stated they would not let ? Chinese stay at their hotel:

A) one hundred percent refused Chinese customers.
B) all let Chinese stay.
C) most let Chinese stay.
D) most let only Whites stay.

Question 40

The authors demonstrate how researchers used science to support their racist ideas.

Question 41

Take a pluralist position and create five strategies for countering prejudice in science and/or ? education.

Question 42

LaPiere's study showed that people's behavior depended more on group membership than on ? attitudes.

Question 43

Bogardus started the research techniques on social distance studies.

Question 44

The vicious circle often leads to the self-fulfilling prophecy.

Question 45

The ideas of scientific racism were under strong attack during the twentieth century.

Question 46

Authoritarianism is highly related to prejudice.

Question 47

Describe five core flaws with The Bell Curve's argument
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Question 48

Summarize the main theories of prejudice providing a pro and con argument for each one.

Question 49

Groups have nothing to do with the assumptions of social identity theory.

Question 50

Many studies indicate that dominant group members profit from discrimination.

Question 51

Americans may exhibit a social desirability biasπthat is to say exactly how they feel and get it ? all out in the open.

Question 52

Briefly summarize the key events leading up to the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Question 53

The relationship between prejudice and discrimination is very simple and obvious.

Question 54

Make a brief list of four attempts at scientific racism which failed and why each failed.

Question 55

Support the argument that prejudice does not have to be present for discrimination to occur.? Present at least six core supportive claims.

Question 56

Noel (1968) studied how split labor markets impact economic standing.

Question 57

Marx argued that owners lose money when discrimination occurs.

Question 58

Describe how the Immigration Act of 1924 significantly changed the trends of immigration to ? the United States.

Question 59

Make a brief list of ten reasons that heredity alone is not enough to explain intelligence.

Question 60

Prejudice must be present to keep the current institutional discrimination system intact.

Question 61

Prepare an argument to support the claim that prejudice has diminished among U.S.people.? Provide examples from Chapter 5.Now,give three reasons why discrimination can still be a ? major problem in the United States.

Question 62

Make a vocabulary list of the following words: racism,prejudice,stereotypes,and ? discrimination.Give examples of each of these from Chapter 5.