Diversity exam 1

The population of the united states is currently:

- Affected by long-standing unresolved minority issues, - affected by rising immigration rates, - increasingly diverse, - increasingly multilingual

Which of the following represent the two types of stereotypes?

- An african american is described as being lazy, irresponsible, and not intelligent - A chinese american is described as being very crafty, too sly, or too ambitious

Marx believed that conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat was inevitable and that the ultimate results of this class struggle would be:

- The victory of the working class - The creation of a utopian society without exploitation, coercion, or inequality - A classless society

Which concept below best describes someone who is prejudice and does discriminate?

An all-weather bigot

Many years ago, a European American store owner in a racist town succumbed to pressures from others and agreed to ban african americans from his shop, even though he himself was not prejudice at all. This merchant was an example of Merton's

Fair-weather liberal

In examining inequality, Weber might argue that a famous and wealthy rapper might rank:

High on class, high on prestige

The largest minority group in the United States is:

Hispanics

Marxism is a theory of history and social change in which ____ is a central concept.

Inequality

Selective perception

Is a tendency to see only what one expects to see

Which of the following would be classified as primarily an ethnic minority group?

Jewish Americans

"The most important source of inequality arises from a person's relationship to the means of production." This statement might be heard from a:

Marxist

People classified as asian and pacific islander:

Represent many different national and linguistic backgrounds, Should never be mistaken for unchanging or "natural" divisions between people, Vary by social class, religion, gender, and in thousands of other ways

Which of the following is an example of selective perception

Seeing a Native American who is drinking in a bar but not noticing the Native American who is neatly dressed in a three-piece Armani suit - seeing the old man who pulls out on the freeway at 35 miles an hour while ignoring the good driver who happened to be elderly - not pressuring that an NFL football player could be gay - assuming that the female doctor is really nurse

Which of the following people best illustrates the difference between prestige and class?

Shirley Umphlett, the African American whose parents moved to New York from Alabama in the 1920s

Hartley (1946) demonstrated that there can be a generalized tendency to reject minority groups of all sorts and stereotypes can exist apart from any need to rationalize or justify dominant-group advantages when he found that

Some people will express prejudice against people who do not exist

Which of the following is not an example of the affective dimension of prejudice?

Stereotyping and overgeneralization

The two groups projected to increase dramatically in the United States over the next half century are:

asian and pacific islanders and hispanic americans

According to Weber, a person who became rich by cleaning septic tanks would be higher on _______ but lower on ________

class; prestige

Gerhard Lenski is important because he linked the nature of inequality to the _________ of a society

level of development

Max Weber thought that Marx's ideas about inequality were too

narrow

Stereotypes vary by:

race, gender, and class

Which of the following is not one of the defining characteristics of a minority group?

small group size

Societies are divided into horizontal layers (or strata) often called:

social classes

______ are exaggerated generalization about groups of people and tend to be overly simplistic and difficult to prove

stereotypes

Prejudice is to discrimination as

thinking is to doing

In opposition to Marx, Weber argued that there are _____ dimensions of inequality

three