Deck 12: Race and Ethnicity

Question 1

Psychologist Eugene Hartley (1946) made up the names of three ethnic groups-Wallonians, Pireneans, and Danireans-and found that people who were prejudiced against Jews and Blacks

A) loved the nonexistent Wallonians, Pireans, and Danireans.
B) also hated the nonexistent Wallonians, Pireneans, and Danireans.
C) praised the nonexistent Wallonians, Pireneans, and Danireans for their support in the struggle against their enemies.
D) questioned who the nonexistent Wallonians, Pireneans, and Danireans were.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Built into society's institutions, _____ is negative treatment of a minority group.

A) institutional prejudice
B) unintentional discrimination
C) institutional discrimination
D) contact theory

Answer 2

C

Question 3

_____ is an act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or a group.

A) Racism
B) Contact theory
C) Discrimination
D) Prejudice

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The annihilation or attempted annihilation of a people because of their presumed race or ethnicity is known as

A) genocide.
B) racial superiority.
C) racial purification.
D) ethnic work.

Question 5

The difference between ethnicity and race is that ethnicity refers to _____ characteristics, and race to _____ characteristics, distinguishing one group of people from another.

A) cultural; inherited physical
B) inherited physical; cultural
C) dominant group; minority group
D) minority group; dominant group

Question 6

Which of the following statements about race is true?

A) Race is a concept that biologists and anthropologists agree upon.
B) There are two races.
C) Ashley Montagu, a physical anthropologist, classified people into forty racial groups.
D) There are two thousand races.

Question 7

Usually negative, _____ is an attitude or prejudgment.

A) prejudice
B) contact theory
C) rejecting the norms of a dominant group
D) discrimination

Question 8

_____ refers to a group whose inherited physical characteristics distinguish it from other groups.

A) Ethnicity
B) Race
C) Minority group
D) Dominant group

Question 9

_____ refers to prejudice and discrimination based on race.

A) Contact theory
B) Racism
C) Institutional discrimination
D) Unintended discrimination

Question 10

Julio had a strong sense of ethnic identity. Our ethnic identity is _____ by our group having smaller numbers in a society and being the object of discrimination.

A) somewhat lessened
B) heightened
C) unaffected
D) pretty well eliminated

Question 11

Ezekiel's research (1995) found that Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi leaders believed that race

A) represents the essence of a person.
B) exists only in the mind.
C) is superficial, because all people are the same in the eyes of God.
D) is not a rigid category.

Question 12

When it comes to prejudice,

A) we are born with it.
B) heredity and environment play about equal parts.
C) we learn it from the people around us.
D) it has all but been eliminated.

Question 13

Research on _____ has shown that prejudice and negative stereotypes decrease and relations improve when people of different racial-ethnic backgrounds interact frequently.

A) heightened discrimination
B) the racist mind
C) institutional racism
D) contact theory

Question 14

The idea of racial superiority is

A) consistent with some of the evidence.
B) a myth.
C) generally applied to a group other than one's own.
D) undeniably true.

Question 15

_____ is person-to-person or face-to-face discrimination.

A) Institutional discrimination
B) Individual discrimination
C) Racism
D) Prejudice

Question 16

People who are singled out for unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination make up a(n)

A) dominant group.
B) ethnic group.
C) minority group.
D) race.

Question 17

According to research, it appears that people in the minority _____ the norms of the dominant group and learn to be _____ their own group.

A) are prejudiced against; always tolerant of
B) internalize; prejudiced against
C) externalize; critical of
D) reject; accepting of

Question 18

_____ group is the group with the most power, greatest privileges, and highest social status.

A) racial
B) established minority
C) ethnic
D) dominant

Question 19

There are two ways that a group can become a minority group. Both involve, in one way or another,

A) race.
B) ethnic work.
C) climate.
D) geography.

Question 20

The profusion of skin colors and physical characteristics of different humans is due to

A) the development of pure races.
B) adaptation to diverse climates and other living conditions as humans spread throughout the world.
C) biology rather than evolution.
D) the emergence of dominant groups in the last three centuries.

Question 21

In unintentional discrimination,

A) the discrimination is deliberate.
B) the discrimination is written into law.
C) no one is aware of it.
D) health care is one area that is exempt.

Question 22

As whites colonized the United States and expanded westward, what did most Native Americans die from?

A) Disease
B) Violence
C) Starvation
D) Segregation

Question 23

The United States government's relocation of Native Americans to reservations is an example of

A) direct population transfer.
B) friendship.
C) indirect population transfer.
D) assimilation.

Question 24

When a group is absorbed into the mainstream culture, this is known as

A) assimilation.
B) apartheid.
C) segregation.
D) population transfer.

Question 25

Someone with an authoritarian personality tends to be

A) tolerant of others.
B) secure.
C) submissive to superiors.
D) free of prejudice.

Question 26

Seeing certain features of an object or situation, but remaining blind to others, is

A) normal perception.
B) a route to greater tolerance, if we apply labels to groups.
C) a focus of conflict theorists.
D) selective perception.

Question 27

A person or group unfairly blamed for someone's troubles is a(n)

A) scapegoat.
B) symbolic interactionist.
C) authoritarian personality.
D) example of selective perception.

Question 28

Conflict theorists say that capitalists use the _____ to expand production during economic booms, and then lay off people during economic contractions.

A) split labor market
B) overemployed
C) reserve labor force
D) scapegoats

Question 29

_____ is a policy of keeping racial-ethnic groups apart.

A) Segregation
B) Multiculturalism
C) Internal colonialism
D) Assimilation

Question 30

_____ exploits minority groups for economic gain.

A) Ethnic cleansing
B) Internal colonialism
C) Population transfer
D) Compartmentalization

Question 31

_____ create self-fulfilling stereotypes.

A) Labels
B) Capitalists
C) Functionalists
D) The authoritarian personality

Question 32

_____ mortgage applicants are most frequently offered subprime loans, which charge the highest interest.

A) White
B) African American
C) Wallonian
D) Latino

Question 33

One perspective on prejudice is that it is _____, in that it creates in-group solidarity.

A) interactionist
B) functional
C) dysfunctional
D) a product of a split labor market

Question 34

_____ permits-or encourages-ethnic differences.

A) Functionalism
B) Ethnic cleansing
C) Multiculturalism
D) Compartmentalization

Question 35

Presently, the life expectancy for African American females is about _____ years, and for white American females it is _____ years.

A) 68; 68
B) 72; 77
C) 83; 89
D) 88; 90

Question 36

To _____ is to separate acts from feelings or attitudes.

A) segregate
B) compartmentalize
C) assimilate
D) encourage pluralism

Question 37

In conflict theory, a(n) _____ is exploited by owners in order to weaken the bargaining power of workers.

A) reserve labor force
B) split labor market
C) selective perception
D) prejudice

Question 38

African Americans, whites, Latinos, and others see themselves only able to make gains at the expense of other groups, according to

A) conflict theorists.
B) functionalists.
C) psychologists.
D) symbolic interactionists.

Question 39

Forcible expulsion and genocide are types of

A) internal colonialism.
B) segregation.
C) assimilation.
D) ethnic cleansing.

Question 40

Symbolic interactionists focus on the role of _____ in affecting perception and creating prejudice.

A) the authoritarian personality
B) labels
C) history
D) conflict

Question 41

There is a disagreement among sociologists on whether _____ or race is (are) more important in determining the life chances of African Americans.

A) history
B) ethnicity
C) white ethnics
D) social class

Question 42

Discuss the myth of pure races.

Question 43

Which of the following groups in the United States has the highest median family income?

A) Whites
B) Asian Americans
C) Latinos
D) Native Americans

Question 44

Broadly speaking, the highest percentage of the dominant group in the United States is found in the

A) North.
B) South.
C) East.
D) West.

Question 45

_____ is an umbrella term for people from any of the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America.

A) Latino
B) WASP
C) Mexicano
D) Cubano

Question 46

There is _____ prejudice and discrimination in U.S. race-ethnic relations today than there was in the past.

A) vastly more
B) somewhat more
C) the same amount of
D) less

Question 47

Native Americans today speak _____ different languages.

A) 3
B) 27
C) 84
D) 169

Question 48

Among Americans of European descent, the largest group comes from

A) Germany.
B) England.
C) Italy.
D) Norway.

Question 49

Immigrants to the United States from Poland, Ireland, Italy, and Germany are examples of

A) white ethnics.
B) WASPS.
C) HORNETS.
D) Latinos.

Question 50

Differentiate between prejudice and discrimination.

Question 51

The concern in some quarters that too many immigrants will change the character of the United States is

A) new to the last two decades.
B) causing immigration to taper to a trickle.
C) age-old.
D) confined to California.

Question 52

segregation, population transfer, assimilation, genocide, internal colonialism, multiculturalism.

Question 53

Explain the relationship between labels and genocide.

Question 54

What is the connection between frustration and scapegoats?

Question 55

WASP stands for

A) Women Against Sexual Predestination.
B) White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
C) War Against Special Populations.
D) White And Selected Populations.