Exam 12: Race and Ethnicity

Discuss how the sociological perspectives explain the causes of prejudice and discrimination.

Why are Native Americans called the "invisible minority"?

The process of compartmentalization helps people who engage in genocide to maintain a sense of being good and moral.

Sam, a bartender who saw duty in Vietnam, refuses to serve Asians in his bar because he believes that Asians have no business living in the U.S.A. Sam's actions describe ________.

The practice the South employed after the Civil War to segregate blacks from whites was called ________.

Hatred of Chinese Americans in 1942, and further discrimination against Japanese immigrants, were historical examples of spillover bigotry.

Prejudice is an action; discrimination is an attitude.

How did the Cuban refugees who fled Cuba in 1959 and the early 60s differ from the "boat people" who fled Cuba in the 1980s?

What is pan-Indianism?

Which phrase best describes Miss Rivers' Lodge?

The massacre of Native Americans in the 1800s, the extermination of the Jews in Nazi Germany, and the slaughter of the Tutsis in Rwanda are all examples of ________.

In society, which group has the greatest power, privileges, and social status?

Distinguish the difference between "race" and "ethnicity," and give an example of each.

The split labor market and reserve labor force are most aligned with the symbolic interactionist perspective.

Switzerland is made up of four separate ethnic groups that have kept their own languages but are peacefully united politically and economically. This pattern of intergroup relations is an example of ________.

Who was the theorist who concluded that highly prejudiced people are actually insecure conformists?

The sense that better conditions are soon to follow which, if unfulfilled, increases frustration, is called ________.

What is another name for multiculturalism?

Who were the white ethnics?

The group in society made up of the unemployed who can be put to work during times of high production and then laid off when they are no longer needed is called ________.