exam 2 sociology 2

Compared with 11 percent of the U.S. population as a whole, around 33 percent of Native Americans die before age: *a. 45. c. 55. b. 50. d. 60.

*a. 45.

An 1851 excerpt from Harper's Weekly magazine describes a certain racial group as lawbreaking, idle, thriftless, poor, and barbarian. What group is this excerpt describing? a. Irish c. Italians b. African Americans d. cartel members from Mexico

*a. Irish

Which of the following terms hinges on the belief that social and psychological traits can be traced through bloodlines and selectively bred out of (or into) populations? a. eugenics c. race relations b. biogenics d. sociogenics

*a. eugenics

In 1942, 120,000 Japanese Americans were sent by federal order to internment camps. Afterward, all Asian Americans (regardless of their country of origin and/or U.S. citizenship status) went from being a relatively unnoticed group to being singled out for discrimination. This is known as: *a. racialization. c. whiteness. b. prejudice. d. primordialism. ANS: A DIF: Difficult REF: Racial Realities

*a. racialization.

America's first naturalization law, passed in 1790, granted citizenship to: a. anyone who had fought in the Revolutionary War. *b. free white people. c. all white people. d. former British citizens.

*b. free white people.

The black ghetto was manufactured by whites through a set of deliberate, conscious practices. Which of the following is NOT one of the practices mentioned in your book? a. property owners signed secret agreements promising to exclude blacks *b. high homeowner association dues c. if blacks moved in, whites would move out d. I don't know the answer, I was texting

*b. high homeowner association dues

According to Peggy McIntosh (1988), which of the following statements about "being white" is most accurate? a. If you are white, it is difficult to find cosmetics that suit your ethnicity at local drugstores. b. If you are white, it's almost guaranteed that you will teach your children about systematic racism for their own protection. *c. If you are white, you don't have to think much about your racial identity. d. If you are white, you are often pointed to as an example of what "most white people" do.

*c. If you are white, you don't have to think much about your racial identity.

During the mid-twentieth century in the United States, many blacks moved north to escape Jim Crow laws in the rural South. This resulted in: a. an immediate improvement in the lives of African Americans. b. movement of more whites to the South. *c. competition for housing and employment in the North, resulting in violent clashes between whites and blacks. d. many blacks "passing" as white.

*c. competition for housing and employment in the North, resulting in violent clashes between whites and blacks.

_____ allows one to identify with a nationality without the rights and duties of a citizen

Ethnicity

Mexicans are generally classified as a physical type that combines Native American and European traits and referred to as:

Mestizos

Who was one of the first sociologists to point out the importance of culture in determining race?

Robert Park

The one-drop rule asserts that just "one drop" of black blood makes:

a person black.

Which term refers to the more overt form of resistance through a movement such as revolution or genocide or through nonviolent protest? *a. collective resistance c. individual alliance b. group acquiescence d. mutual resistance

a. collective resistance

Swiss theologian Johann Caspar Lavater suggested that outside appearances were connected to inner virtues. According to him, which of the following features signified higher intellect and more worthy character? a. dark skin and large eyes c. dark skin and flat noses b. light skin and small features d. heavy set people with blue eyes

b*. light skin and small features

Because the German Nazis could not find a reliable marker to identify Jews, the Jews were forced to: a. wear a yellow Star of David. b. become spies for Nazi Germany c. use their birth names. d. live in certain parts of the country.

b*. light skin and small features d. heavy set people with blue eyes

When the term race comes up in America today, we usually think in two colors

black and white

The majority of Latinos in the United States have immigrated here within the last ____________ years. a. 2 c. 40* b. 10 d. 80

c. 40*

. Most Arabs in the United States are not Muslim but ____________, and about 20 percent of U.S. Muslims are ____________. a. Catholic; Asian c. Christian; African American* b. Islamic; Latino d. Protestant; East Indian

c. Christian; African American*

Prejudice is to discrimination as thinking is to: a. manifesting. c. doing.* b. developing. d. being.

c. doing.*

In the nineteenth century, theories of race moved from religious-based racism to: a. neo-racism. c. scientific racism. b. modern racism. d. biological racism.

c. scientific racism.

The concept of race has

changed over time

About 35 percent of Muslims worldwide were born in: a. Iran. c. Canada. b. Afghanistan. d. America.*

d. America.*

Which of the five varieties of humans did Blumenbach decide were the superlatives of the races based on their excellent skull qualities? a. Chicana/os from the Rio Grande Valley. Asians c. People from Monterey, Mexico b. people from Mexico City only d. Caucasians

d. Caucasians*

Muslims in America have undergone what scholars refer to as the formation of a new racial identity in which new ideological boundaries of difference are drawn around a formerly unnoticed group of people, known as: a. ethnicization. c. ethnism. b. racism. d. racialization.

d. racialization.

The 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson upheld: a. equality. c. integration. b. ethnic cleansing. d. segregation.*

d. segregation.*

The General Social Survey asked respondents why, on average, African Americans have worse jobs, income, and housing than white people. Nearly half of the respondents believed that blacks:

don't have the motivation to pull themselves out of poverty.

During the 1950s, the United States began to focus more on cultural theories of race and ethnicity, thus rejecting:

eugenics.

Ontological equality is the notion that

everyone is created equal by divine design.

though race has no deterministic, biological basis, it still

has important social influence

The term phrenology refers to: think of all the different ______ in the university and in the classroom

head formations

A society is pluralistic if no distinct ethnic group is statistically:

in the majority.

Interracial marriage refers to

miscegenation

Nativists believed that restricting the immigration of certain groups would:

protect the nation

Social Darwinism was the evolutionary notion of:

survival of the fittest

Asians have been applauded for their smooth assimilation and are referred to as:

the model minority

Ethnocentrism classified nonwhites as abnormal and inferior to help justify:

unequal treatment and conquest.

Aristotle's principle of civic association was that the true test of people's worth was in what they did, not who they were. All people were included in this EXCEPT:

women