MODULE 10

Native Americans gained the right to U.S. citizenship in ________.

1924

Historically, WASPs dominated social life in the United States until about ________.

1960, with the election of John F. Kennedy.

Human beings are all members of ________.

A single biological species.

Conflict theory states that prejudice is ________.

A tool used by powerful people to oppress others.

Authoritarian personality theory states that extreme prejudice is ________.

A trait of certain individuals with particular personalities.

Arab Americans are a U.S. minority that ________.

All of these are correct

Based on research using the social distance scale, you can correctly say that U.S. college students today _______.

All of these are correct

For Chinese immigrants, one result of living in Chinatowns was _____.

All of these choices

Which of the following statements about prejudice is true?

All of these choices

The adoption of the English language by Mexican immigrants in the United States is an example of ________.

Assimilation.

The overall social standing of Native Americans is ________.

Below the national average

You would be expressing a "stereotype" if you ________

Described everyone in some category in the same way.

A family leaves Russia and takes up residence in the United States, where they gradually lose Russian cultural traditions. Doing so, these people have modified their ________.

Ethnicity

Which of the following concepts refers to a shared cultural heritage?

Ethnicity

The killing of people in the Darfur region of Africa is a recent example of ________.

Genocide

The story about the class at New York's Bronx Community College explains that ________.

Many people have mixed racial and ethnic ancestry.

Which of the following categories of Hispanics in the United States is largest in terms of population size?

Mexican Americans

Assimilation refers to the process by which ________.

Minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture.

The idea that prejudice and discrimination form a vicious circle means that ________.

Prejudice and discrimination reinforce each other

Which of the following concepts refers to the physical and social separation of categories of people?

Segregation

Today, sociologists emphasize that race is a ____________________________, not a biological one.

Socially constructed reality

What Gunnar Myrdal called the "American dilemma" was _______.

The denial of basic rights to African Americans by a so-called "democratic society."

According to Theodor Adorno's authoritarian personality theory, prejudiced people ________.

View society as naturally hierarchical.

Scapegoat theory states that prejudice is created by _______.

frustration among disadvantaged people

Significant immigration of Asian Americans to the United States was first sparked by ________.

the California Gold Rush in 1849.