Exam 10: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

______________refers to the interactive effect of racism and sexism on the exploitation of women of color.

In 1947, ___________broke the "color line" to become the first African American in Major League Baseball.

Define ethnic pluralism, and contrast it with assimilation.

Not all workers in a capitalist system are exploited to the same extent.

The caste perspective views racial and ethnic inequality as a permanent feature of U.S. society. The caste system was strengthened by ______________laws, which prohibited sexual intercourse or marriage between persons of different races.

Sports provided a means for assimilating and using educational opportunities for members of white ethnic groups in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A prejudiced judge gives harsher sentences to all African American defendants, even though he is not supported by the judicial system in his actions. According to sociologist Joe Feagin, this illustrates ______________discrimination.

The term___________ refers to blatant behavior and may take the form of public statements about the "inferiority" of members of a racial or ethnic group.

A football coach dislikes African Americans but still hires black players because he thinks they will enhance the team's ability to win. According to sociologist Robert Merton's typology of prejudice and discrimination, this coach is a(n) _______________.

Used sociologically,___________ most commonly refers to a negative attitude based on faulty generalizations about members of specific racial, ethnic, or other groups.

The definition of races as distinct biological categories first emerged in the ___________.

Prejudice may be either positive or negative toward a particular group.

According to the contact hypothesis, contact between members of divergent or opposing groups will lead to more favorable attitudes under certain conditions. Which of these is not one of the necessary conditions?

Sociologists use the term ___________for a group whose members are disadvantaged by physical or cultural characteristics, are subjected to unequal treatment by the controlling group, and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination.

From the functionalist perspective, assimilation is positive because it leads to social stability by minimizing group differences.

The identifiers Jewish Americans, Irish Americans, and Italian Americans refer to a person's ___________.

Sociologists sometimes put the term "race" in quotation marks because___________ .

Explain the symbolic interactionist contact hypothesis.

Explain the distinction between overt and subtle racism; give an example of each.

Millions of Native Americans were killed due to the official policies of genocide established by the U.S. government.