Chapter 8 quiz

In 1991, an enormous controversy erupted after five Los Angeles police officers.....

It would be considered institutional discrimination if the leadership of the Los Angeles Police department condoned or encouraged this type of behavior on a regular basis

What kind of sociologist believes racial and ethnic identities bind people and help society run much more efficiently?

A structural functionalist

What has modern science determined about racial categories?

Biologically there is no such thing as a pure race.

What is it called when members of a minority group learn the cultural practices of the dominant group?

Cultural assimilation

How does color blindness contribute to racial inequalities ?

It perpetuates racial inequalities by making subtle forms of racism difficult to recognize and therefore difficult to address

Some conservative groups have organized to campaign both.....

Pluralism

The belief that members of one racial group are genetically predisposed to be more intelligent than members of another racial group is an example of

Prejudice

The fact that so many people are asked, "what are you?" In reference to their race is evidence that

Race must be established interactionally

A young person from Southern California has four German grandparents. She lived in Los Angeles all her life before accepting a job in Milwaukee. She's never really thought about her German heritage, but in Milwaukee she discovers many other people with similar ancestries and starts using her ethnicity as a way to develop social and professional relationships. What is this an example of?

Situational ethnicity

How do we decide when to display situational ethnicity?

we do a cost - benefit analysis