sociology. quiz

Which act formalized the exclusive definition of whiteness by imposing immigration restrictions based on a national origins quota system that limited the yearly number of immigrants from each country?

Immigration act of 1924

During the mid-twentieth century in the United States, many blacks moved north to escape Jim Crow laws in the rural South. This resulted in:

competition for housing and employment in the north resulting in violent clashes between whites and blacks

You are dependent on your professor for your grade. Your professor, in turn, is dependent on you for his or her job. Hegel would call this a(n):

dialectic relationship

Hegel argued that notions of inequality are constantly evolving in a larger historical arc and will eventually lead to:

equality

Lisa Geesh is a U.S. senator who supports policies that give preferential treatment to disadvantaged groups in employment and education. She is concerned with:

equality of condition

Which of the following terms hinges on the belief that social and psychological traits can be traced through bloodline and selectively bred out of(or into) populations?

eugenics

ontological equality is the notion that

everyone is created equal by divine design.

America's first naturalization law passed in 1790 granted citizenship to

free white person

Pedro describes himself as mestizo, meaning that:

his ancestors include both Native Americans and Europeans.

Elliot Essman asserts that America is a(n) ____________ because the very wealthy do not have much impact on the country in general.

middle class nation

Before Melissa's trip to India, she read a book that said India has four main castes. When she arrived, she asked Veda, an Indian woman, "Which of the four castes does your family belong to?" Veda smiled and corrected Melissa, pointing out that:

over time, the caste systems has evolved into thousands of subcastes

Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith's proposal that skin color should be viewed as a product of climate and therefore not correlated to inner virtues (e.g., intelligence, character, personality) suggests that he felt:

people were all the same beneath their skin

Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that the source of all social ills was

private property

Karl Marx and Jean-Jacques Rousseau tended to agree on at least one thing. They both felt that the primary source of social ills in society was due to the emergence of:

private property

which term refers to the belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal traits?

racism

An entire caste in India may use language, education, or religion to shift its status in the hierarchy. Such a process is called:

sanskiritization

An alien drops onto the planet, and the only books he reads are Horatio Alger, Jr., novels. The alien concludes that:

the rags to riches narrative of social mobility is true and realistic

In one study of television portrayals of Arabs, researchers found basic myths that continue to surround this group, such as:

they are uncivilized and barbaric

According to Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People, white people:

typically just. see themselves as individuals

During European colonialism, ethnocentrism classified whites as normal, and nonwhites as abnormal and inferior, to help justify:

unequal treatment and conquest.