SOC Ch 8 Inquisitive

According to William Julius Wilson, racism has created a Black underclass, but this underclass is perpetuated by

economic factors

Sociologists accept the notion that race has an objective or scientific meaning but also seek to understand why race continues to play such a critical role in society.

false

In the United States, __________ would have the most freedom in choosing whether to display their race or ethnicity.

Irish Americans

What is the relationship between race and class, according to sociologists such as Michael Omi and Howard Winant?

Race is not a side effect of class; rather, it permeates every aspect of daily life.

What is it called when a minority group is absorbed into the dominant group?

assimiliation

Why are there differences in life expectancies for people of different races?

disparities in access to health care

A state is called __________ when white people comprise less than half the population.

majority-minority

In Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev's 2016 analysis of 800 U.S. firms, which of the following approaches to diversity did they find was effective?

mentoring and college recruitment programs

In the novel The Human Stain by Philip Roth, a professor at a college in the Northeast is forced into early retirement after he is accused of racism. The charge turns out to be ironic when the reader learns that the professor has a secret: The professor was born to African American parents and has been covering up his heritage and living as a white man his whole adult life. Of what is this an example?

passing

Color blindness contributes to racial inequalities because it

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

Desmond and Emirbayer, in What is Racial Domination, explain that ___________ is a symbolic category, based on phenotype or ancestry and constructed according to specific social and historical contexts, that is _______________ as a natural category.

race; misrecognized

What is it called when individuals live as if they were members of a different racial category than the one into which they were born?

racial passing

The issue associated with race and ethnicity that Chris Rock's "driving while Black" selfies represent is

racial profiling.

What is the definition of cultural appropriation?

the adoption of cultural elements belonging to an oppressed group by members of the dominant group, without permission and often for the dominant group's gain

According to Desmond and Emirbayer, people who assume that the presence of people of color in influential positions is evidence of the eradication of racial obstacles are guilty of....

tokenistic fallacy

symbolic interactionism

Race and ethnicity are part of our identity as displayed through our presentation of self.

Pablo lives in the United States, where most people assume that he is Arab until they learn his name and hear his accent. They are surprised when Pablo tells them that he is from Spain and identifies as white, not Latino. Some people even tell Pablo that he isn't really white. What does this suggest about race?

Race is socially defined, and the criteria used to determine a person's race varies.

structural functionalism

Racial and ethnic differences are a necessary part of society. Even racial inequality has functions that help maintain social order.

conflict theory

Racial and ethnic differences create intergroup conflict; minority and majority groups have different interests and may find themselves at odds as they attempt to secure and protect their interests.

What are displays of ethnic identity that only occur on special occasions?

symbolic ethnicity

What racial issue does functionalism help to explain?

the persistence of racial divisions in America today

In the early 1900s, native-born Americans, usually Protestants, did not consider Irish, Italian, or Jewish immigrants to be white. What does this illustrate?

the social construction of race

In What is Racial Domination, the Southern Poverty Law Center has found... Group of answer choices

there are hundreds of active hate groups across the US.