Sociology Chapter 11

Cuban Americans

Which of the following categories has the highest medican income, the lowest poverty rate, and the highest adult college completion rate among all categories of Hispanic Americans?

Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka

Which decision by the U.S. Supreme Court ended institutionalized discrimination involving segregated schools in the United States?

Culture

According to __________ theory, some prejudice is found in everyone within a society's population

Biology; a cultural environment

According to research conducted by sociologist Thomas Sowell, racial differences in IQ scores result not from _____________ but rather from ________________

Genocide

Between the time Europeans first arrived in the Americas in the late 15th century and the year 1900, the population of Native Americans declined from millions to just 250,000. Which of the following patterns of intergroup relations best explains this fact?

A vicious circle or self-fulfilling prophesy

Following the Thomas Theorem, we would view prejudice and discrimination as _____________

Almost nothing about that person

From a biological standpoint, researchers have learned, if we assume we are dealing with people of the same social position, knowing a young person's racial category allows us to predict ________

Assimilation

In 1871, the United States declared American Indians to be wards of the federal government and implemented a strategy of forced ____________, a policy that had the official goal of turning native peoples in to "Americans"

Asia and Latin America

Most of the immigrants entering the United States come from ______________

The Nazi Holocaust

New York City's Little Italy is an example of pluralism just as ___________ is an example of genocide

Who have blonde hair are dumb

One example of unfair prejudice is to say that people _____________

Social distance

One technique that allows researchers to measure the strength of prejudice is the __________ scale

Actions

Prejudice involves attitudes; discrimination involves ____________

Biological traits; cultural traits

Race is to _____________ as ethnicity is to ____________

Hypersegregation

Researchers conclude that ___________ is the daily experience of about 20 percent of poor African Americans. It is found in approximately 25 large U.S. cities today.

Placing people into categories allows societies to create hierarchies in which some people have greater access to things of value than other people

Science tells us that there is more genetic variation within each racial category than there is between racial categories. Knowing this fact, why do people in societies around the world create and pay attention to racial differences?

In the workplace

Stereotyping is especially harmful to minorities when it occurs _____________

Assimilation

The ____________ pattern of majority-minority relations involves people making changes in ethnicity but not in race

Six percent

The latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows us that about what share of U.S. children under the age of five are multicultural?

White Anglo-Saxon Protestants

This historical dominance of ________ in U.S. culture is evidenced by the widespread use of the terms "race" and "ethnicity" to describe everyone but the members of that category

Automobile dealerships charge minority care buyers a higher interest rate than that offered to white buyers

Which of the following statements is an example of institutional prejudice and discrimination?

Religion

______________ is one of the factors on which membership in an ethnic category is based

W. I. Thomas and Dorothy Thomas

_______________ offered the following statement to explain how prejudice and discrimination reinforce each other: "Situations that are defines as real become real in their consequences"