The Study of Minorities (chap 1) #36-70

True or False? Within any society, groupings of people by race, religion, tribe, culture, or lifestyle can generate a sense of familiarity and belonging.

FALSE

__________ functions refer to obvious and intended results, while __________ functions refer to hidden and unexpected results.

Manifest, latent

__________ illustrates the Dillingham Flaw.

Criticism of a new immigrant group, compared to an earlier one

__________ is a variation of ethnocentrism in which the content and emphasis in history, literature, and other humanities primarily concern Western culture. One counterforce to this is __________, a viewpoint emphasizing African culture and its influence on Western civilization and the behavior of American blacks.

Eurocentrism, Afrocentrism

Cross-racial friendships on college campuses are increasingly rare.

FALSE

Manifest functions are better than latent functions.

FALSE

The adjustment from stranger to neighbor moves along a continuum without friction.

FALSE

True or False? Social distance refers to how far away your relatives and friends live.

FALSE

True or False? There are very few studies that examine how much people like those who are similar in appearance to them.

FALSE

__________ refers to the movement of people into a new country to become permanent residents.

Immigration

Functionalists believe that society is a stable, cooperative social system in which everything has a function and provides the basis of a harmonious society.

TRUE

Sociologists use historical documents, reports, surveys, ethnographies, and direct observation to systematically gather empirical evidence about intergroup relations.

TRUE

True or False? Many people still call the United States a great melting pot where people of all races, religions, and nationalities come to be free and to improve their lives.

TRUE

True or False? Since strangers experience a "lack of historicity," they often observe things that go unnoticed by the natives, such as natives' customs, social institutions, appearances, and lifestyle.

TRUE

An ethnic group held up as a role model for a newly arrived group was probably __________.

an object of scorn and condemnation itself at one time

A __________ perspective focuses on who benefits from a particular situation.

conflict

Karl Marx believed that the elite exploited the masses and that this exploitation created tensions and disagreements. Marx's theory is best known as __________.

conflict perspective

Matt believes that the frustrations and struggles between social groups and classes are what structure and determine society. He is a __________.

conflict theorist

Strict new laws enacted in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the U.S. in the 1990's resulted in a marked increase in __________.

deportations

Compared to migration, __________ is a narrower term that refers to the movement of people out of a country to settle in another.

emigration

When marrying, members of a minority group usually practice __________.

endogamy

Bill believes that assimilation is the key to understanding racial and ethnic differences and that economic equality will follow. His views are in line with __________ theory.

functionalist theory*

Sociologists define a(n) __________ as a group to which individuals belong and feel loyal. A(n) __________ consists of all people to whom an individual does not have a sense of belonging and loyalty.

ingroup, outgroup

A sociologist who investigates how people interpret the situations they are in is probably a(n) __________.

interactionist

By __________, Alfred Schutz meant that people from the same social world mutually "know" the language, customs, beliefs, symbols, and everyday behavior patterns that the stranger usually does not.

intersubjective understanding

Mills states that an issue is a public matter when it is __________.

intricately connected to the larger historical context of society

A 2001 study showed that more than 50 percent of newlyweds met their spouses in the workplace. Sociologically, meeting a spouse at work would be considered a __________.

latent function of workplaces

Even though women make up a statistical majority, they do not have equal representation in government and face significant economic inequalities. This illustrates the idea that minority groups __________.

receive unequal treatment as a group

Ranking __________ is an excellent technique for evaluating how perceptions of similarity attract closer interaction patterns.

social distance

Functionalist theory emphasizes __________.

social equilibrium

Juan believes that Hispanic families are superior to white families. This belief is an example of which theory?

social identity theory

Seeing the connection between one person's story of being bought and sold into modern slavery and recognizing the patterns of increasing human trafficking worldwide requires use of a(n) __________.

sociological imagination

To understand intergroup relations, we must recognize that differences among various peoples cause each group to view other groups as __________.

strangers

The development of racism includes philosophers such as Immanuel Kant offering biological distinctions of the races of mankind and 19th-century social Darwinists seeing human society as a __________ in which the naturally superior will win out.

survival of the fittest

Conflict theorists believe that the North Korean communist regime __________.

was created to act against false consciousness