Diversity in America (2017)

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 - A woman is described as too passive to be an airplane pilot - None of the above - (Correct) Both A and B above

Which of the following is an example of modern institutional discrimination?

- Basing hiring on education, when a minority group has had less opportunity to go to college - Banks using strict economic criteria denying low-income minority loans in formerly segregated housing - The principle of seniority, in which the last hired is the first fired, when minorities were not eligible for earlier positions - When businesses move out of the central city to reduce their overhead costs - Correct All of the above

Which of the following are documented ways slaves could express resistance or noncooperation to their situation and their "masters"?

- Intentional carelessness - Creating work slowdowns - Running away - Open rebellion such as the revolt led by Nat Turner - Correct All of the above

According to your textbook, what factor(s) play a role in the origins of prejudice?

- Technology - Socialization - Competition - All of the above - Correct B and C

Deindustrialization, the shift from manufacturing to service and information jobs, has resulted:

- in the loss of millions of high-paying and unionized manufacturing jobs - in the movement of many industrial jobs to other nations - from automation and robotics increasing in factories - in new jobs that are high-end and technical, or low-pay, low-skill jobs with few benefits or security - Correct All of the above

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 a freeway at 35 miles an hour while ignoring the good driver who happens to be elderly - Not presuming that an NFL football player could be gay - Assuming that the female doctor is really a nurse - Correct All of the above

Between 2008 and 2010, _____ of all marriages in Hawaii crossed group lines.

42%

______ people were murdered during the Rwanda conflict.

800,000

The Malcom and Maria story clearly illustrates:

A combination of factors, including sex, may contributes to the differences in the lives of men and women

Germany faces new challenges largely from:

A new wave of immigration

The family wage is:

A wage paid to male workers so they can support their family

The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870 extended the right to vote to:

African American men

When European immigrants moved out of northern slum areas, who was most likely to move in after them?

African Americans moving from the South

A major point in Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma is that:

Americans learn norms of fairness and justice along with norms that condone or demand unequal treatment based on group membership

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

An all-weather bigot

How did apartheid in South Africa compare to the Jim Crow system in the U.S.?

Apartheid was more repressive and unequal

Sex refers to:

Biological characteristics

Which of the following are the key actors, according to split labor market theorists?

Capitalists, higher-priced labor, lower-priced labor

Which set of terms best characterized the situations of African Americans, American Indians, and Mexican Americans as a result of contact with Anglo-American society?

Colonization, paternalism

Which two conditions of the Noel hypothesis were not present in the initial contact situation between Europeans and Hawaiian Islanders?

Competition and power differential

Which Yugoslavian group was closely aligned with the Nazis during World War II?

Croats

The Bogardus scale of social distance suggests that prejudice is based in:

Culture

As employment became urbanized, women and children's participation in the labor force:

Decline

As employment became urbanized, women's and children's participation in the labor force:

Declined

Which statement accurately reflects the role of diversity in the U.S. society?

Diversity is a fundamental and essential characteristic of U.S. society and can be a strength to be cherished and encouraged.

Which of the following companies has created advertising campaigns in line with third-wave feminism?

Dove

The primary cause of strife in Rwanda was:

Economic Problems

Germany has atoned for the Nazi's attempted genocide of Jews in all of the following ways except:

Eliminating anti-Semitism

Between 1963 and 1980, the women's liberation movement was integral in passing all of the following laws except the:

Equal Rights Amendment

Horrors in Rwanda were magnified by:

European colonialism

The initial settlement of South Africa by the Dutch resembled the:

European movement into North America

Which of the following would not typically be found in a paternalistic system of group relations?

Extensive residential segregation

What are two general stereotypes of minority groups?

Extreme inferiority and power and status differences

All humans can choose their own forms of productive work, relationships, life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness without regard to their gender, race, or any other characteristic, describes the philosophy of:

Gender rebellion feminism

Which of the following informal networks promotes homosocial reproduction?

Golf courses

Slavery ended _____ in Brazil.

Gradually

The expression of masculinity that is most privileged in society is called ______ masculinity.

Hegemonic

Gender rebellion:

Is the rejection of any label attached to sex

The Afrikaans created apartheid, which resembled:

Jim Crow in the U.S.

Which of the following is not typical of jobs within the primary labor market?

Jobs in the service sector with little chance of promotion

The least diverse nation(s) in the world is (are):

Korea and Japan

Which of the following best exemplifies de jure segregation?

Laws requiring blacks to use different water fountains from whites

The Portuguese were _____ hostile toward people of color than other European colonial powers.

Less

"The elite segments of American society are using prejudice and racism to manipulate the thoughts and ideas of minority groups and to brainwash them into accepting their position in society." This statement is most consistent with:

Marxist analysis

Tiered wages and unionization favored:

Men in the work place

There is a greater stigma for:

Men who engage in traditional female activities

Apartheid was established by the ____ Party of ____

National ; South Africa

________ was elected as the first black President of South Africa.

Nelson Mandela

According to a public opinion survey conducted in 2012, affirmative action programs are strongly supported by a majority of:

None of the above

Which of the following best explains "irrational" forms of prejudice?

Personality-centered theories

In the ______ case in 1896, the Supreme Court established the "separate but equal" doctrine:

Plessy v. Ferguson

The doldrums period refers to:

Post World War II period which found women in the suburban home with modern conveniences.

Your book details Americans' social distance scores from 1926 to 2001. Which of the following was not found in that research?

Racial minorities such as African Americans ranked above groups with origins in northern and western Europe.

The former Yugoslavia has a complex mix of:

Religious and ethnic backgrounds

Germany lost World War I and experienced severe problems with economic recession, unemployment, and horrific inflation during the 1920s. Which theory/theories best explains the rise of the Nazi party in Germany in the 1930s?

Scapegoat theories

Gender refers to:

Social characteristics

Which gender-related issue would a third-wave feminist most likely be concerned with?

Standard male/female dichotomy

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

Stereotypes

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

Stereotyping and overgeneralizations

Italian speakers, French speakers, and German speakers are the three major groups of:

Swiss society

The Boer War was a fight between:

The British and the Dutch

Which of the following laws did not restrict African Americans in the South from voting?

The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution

The founding of Israel was a direct result of:

The horrors of the World War II Holocaust

Gender socialization is:

The process by which kids are taught expectations for appropriate gender behaviors.

Which of the following is not true of paternalistic systems?

They tend to have a simple division of labor determined by the group.

Switzerland has a largely peaceful history, primarily due to:

Three economic groups working voluntarily together

Emory Bogardus specified a total of seven degrees of social distance. Which of the following is not one of them?

To my church as fellow parishioners

When power differentials in a society are not very extreme, which of the following stereotypes is most likely to emerge about a minority group?

Too smart

Who helped found the NAACP and advocated immediate pursuit of racial equality and a direct assault on de jure segregation?

W. E. B. DuBois

______ was a primary opponent of Booker T. Washington and helped to establish the NAACP.

W. E. B. DuBois

One concern with the practice of family wages employed by Henry Ford was that it:

Was based on an ideal family structure

Which term is associated with the concept of intersectionality?

Womanist

An event that launches many women into the traditional male workplace:

World War II

Affirmative action is becoming:

a generally unacceptable means of attempting to redress past grievances

"Disparate impact" means:

a practice has unequal results; federal policy and court precedents tend to assume that the practice is racially biased

The intensity, strength, and popularity of antiblack Southern racism actually reached its height:

almost 200 years after slavery began to emerge

In An American Dilemma, Dr. Gunnar Myrdal suggests that there is a basic conflict (or dissonance) between:

basically egalitarian values and the discriminatory behaviors simultaneously found in U.S. culture

The process of acculturation that took place under slavery could best be described as:

coercive Anglo-conformity

The Robber's Cave experiment supports the idea that prejudice can be caused by:

conflict situations between groups

According to the text, the most important factor in the creation of minority-group status is the:

contact situation

One problem with the scapegoat hypothesis is that it:

deemphasizes the economic, political, and social forces that shape behavior

A criticism of the authoritarian personality theory of prejudice is that it:

does not consider the social settings in which an individual is acting

Many years ago, a European American storeowner in a racist town succumbed to pressures from others and agreed to ban African Americans from his shop, even though he himself was not prejudiced at all. This merchant was an example of Merton's:

fair-weather liberal

The great migration of blacks from the South during the early 20th century was possible because of one option available after emancipation. That option was:

freedom of movement

Most recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have:

generally rejected the use of affirmative action as a decision-making tool

The first Africans were introduced into colonial society as:

indentured servants

Affirmative action:

is a group of programs that attempt to reduce the effects of past discrimination or increase diversity in the workplace or in schools

In agrarian society work was:

labor intensive

The idea that racism is changing form to a more subtle way of expressing negative feelings is called:

modern racism

Compared to white women at the turn of the 20th century, African American women were:

more likely to work outside the home

As societies industrialize, dominant-minority relations move from:

paternalistic to competitive forms

Past-in-present institutional discrimination involves practices in the present that have discriminatory consequences because of some pattern of discrimination or exclusion in the past. One example of this is:

principle of seniority in the workforce

The plantation owners solved their labor problem after the end of slavery by developing the ______.

sharecropping system

In 1763, the British Crown declared American Indian tribes to be:

sovereign nations

The one common factor that seems to account for the origin of all prejudice is:

stereotypes

Men who achieve faster in traditional female occupations are:

taking advantage of the glass escalator

The concept of social distance best reflects:

the degree of intimacy we are willing to permit

Robert Blauner presents a theory of dominant-minority relations that stresses the importance of:

the initial contact situation

All of the following are correct about slaves in colonial America except:

they could not work on plantations with whites