SOC 323 Quiz #2
True
According to sociologist Oliver Cromwell Cox, racial inequality is an extension of class inequality.
False
According to sociologist Robert Blauner, the experiences of colonized minorities and immigrant minorities in the United States are similar.
Assimilation
Robert Ezra Parks' "race relations cycle," his theory for the incorporation of immigrants into American society, culminated with __________
Racial Formation Perspective
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
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.
Phrenology
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 the races.
Functionalism
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
Critical Race Theory
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?
Scientific Racism
________ refers to using science to prove the innate inferiority of some racial groups and the innate superiority of others.
Internal Colonialism Theory
__________ theory emphasizes the distinction between voluntary immigrants, known as immigrant minorities, and involuntary immigrants, known as colonized minorities