Chapter Three

Which of the following sociological perspectives emphasizes social order and the value of consensus, harmony, and stability for a society, as well as the interdependence of social systems.

Functionalism

_________ refers to a set of beliefs, narratives, and practices within an organization, which are supported by discourse, that make up commonly recognized understandings of race.

Racial Orthodoxy

Which of the following groups of people is referred to as a model minority, a minority group that has succeeded in American society, specifically evidenced by success in educational institutions and the economic sphere?

Asian Americans

Robert Ezra Parks' "race relations cycle," his theory for the incorporation of immigrants into American society, culminated with

Assimilation

Which of the following theoretical perspectives on race embraces an activist agenda instead of objectivity and emphasizes narrative and storytelling as a method of knowledge production?

Critical race theory

In 1927, this sociologist published an article equating racial prejudice with insanity.

E. Franklin Frazier

Scientific research on race has historically been objective and unbiased.

False

___________ explains that some consumers choose which aspects of genetic ancestry testing to embrace and which to disregard, based on their own identity preferences and whether or not others are likely to accept their identity claims.

Genetic options theory

This refers to evidence of human migration patterns found in the human genome; these genetic mutations are evolutionary responses to the environment.

Genome geography

This theory emphasizes the distinction between voluntary immigrants, known as immigrant minorities, and involuntary immigrants, known as colonized minorities.

Internal colonialism theory

The epidemic of violence directed at LGBTQ people of color is an example of ________, because it is more than homophobia and transphobia; it is racialized homophobia and transphobia.

Intersectionality

This focuses on the interactions between different systems of oppression, as all individuals hold positions in multiple status hierarchies (such as gender, race, class, sexuality, nationality, and/or age).

Intersectionality

Which of the following groups would NOT be considered a colonized or involuntary minority according to Blauner's theory of internal colonialism?

Irish Americans

This sociologist introduced the idea of collective forgetting, what a culture ignores or suppresses about its past. He argues this is a major aspect of the white racial frame.

Joe Feagin

This popular American ideology is an extension of the assimilationist paradigm. It is the idea that diverse streams of immigrants come to America and eventually merge into another distinct group, that of the "American."

Melting pot

This term refers to a now defunct branch of science that compared the skull sizes of various racial groups and used that data to try to determine group intelligence, social and cultural characteristics, and the presumed innate group differences between races.

Phrenology

Sociologists Howard Winant and Michael Omi introduced a new theoretical perspective on race called___________, which emphasizes the ways racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed over time, and the ways race plays out structurally in our everyday, lived experience, becoming "common sense" or a way of making sense of our world.

Racial formation perspective

This sociologist thought that ethnicity was more influential in people's life experiences than race.

Robert Ezra Park

This refers to using science to prove the innate inferiority of some racial groups and the innate superiority of others.

Scientific racism

Which of the following is a Marxist explanation for racial/ethnic inequality?

Split labor market theory

Which sociological perspective on race/ethnic relations is concerned with racial/ethnic identity development?

Symbolic Interactionism

During the first half of the twentieth century, white social scientists generally did not embrace the idea that race was a social construction and instead embraced the idea that blacks were biologically or culturally inferior.

True

Sociologists focus on patterns rather than rarities, but there will always be deviations from the norm.

True

Some research finds that DNA ancestry testing is much more common among African Americans, primarily due to the limitations placed upon them in pursuing traditional genealogical research due to the slave trade and the erasure of much of African culture in America.

True

The fact that every modern era has supported a "science of race" which emphasizes race as biological is evidence of the lack of objectivity of race science.

True

While there is nothing new about the existence of biracial/multiracial people, the embrace of biracial/multiracial identities is a relatively recent development.

True

Which of the following African American sociologists was an activist and one of the founders of the NAACP?

W.E.B. DuBois

Which of the following theorists is now being credited with establishing the first scientific school of sociology in the United States, which challenged the prevailing scientific racism of the time?

W.E.B. DuBois

Which of the following African American sociologists was accused by the FBI of being communist due to their research on racial inequality?

W.E.B. DuBois E. Franklin Frazier All of the above

Sociologist Joe Feagin identified the theoretical perspective known as ____________, a worldview that includes racial beliefs, racially loaded terms, racialized images, verbal connotations, racialized emotions and interpretations as well as discriminatory actions that help justify ongoing racism.

White racial frame