Exam 3: Racial and Ethnic Inequality

Which of the following patterns refers to a society in which people of all racial and ethnic categories live with roughly equal social standing?

Marriage between people of different racial categories now accounts for about what portion of all marriages in the United States?

Which of the following terms refers to the systematic killing of one category of people by another?

Which of the following terms refers to the physical and social separation of categories of people?

Which of the following concepts refers to a shared cultural heritage?

In 2012, for the first time, most children born in the United States

Racism at work in the operation of the economy, schools, hospitals, the military, and the criminal justice system is known as

W.Adorno and his colleagues claimed that prejudice is strong in people who feel a lot of hostility, rigidly conform to conventional norms, and see the world in stark contrasts such as "us" versus "them." This statement describes which of the following theories of prejudice?

When minorities-especially new immigrants-enter a society, they become aware of others with higher social standing and typically change their styles of dress, language, cultural values, and sometimes even their religion, in a process called

The commonly heard claim that all members of a certain minority category have reduced intelligence and are therefore less worthy is a clear example of

In a 2003 decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the University of Michigan

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which

In 1776, the year the United States declared its independence from Great Britain, slavery was legal in

If current trends continue, minorities will together make up a majority of the entire U.S.population by about

According to W.E.B.Du Bois in his classic work, The Souls of Black Folk,

In Joan Albon's analysis, the lower social standing of many American Indians was due to

Which theory claims that prejudice develops among people who are frustrated over a lack of control in their lives?

In 2014, Hispanic Americans represented what percentage of the U.S.population?

Some sociologists who are critical of racial classification argue that dividing humanity into racial categories amounts to a strategy that

Early in the twentieth century, Emory Bogardus developed the social distance scale to measure