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"
