Exam 9: Race and Ethnicity.

The contact hypotheses comes from which theoretical perspective?

The __________ is most likely to develop in a family environment in which dominating parents who are anxious about status use physical discipline but show very little love in raising their children.

From a sociological perspective, __________ is a negative attitude based on faulty generalizations about members of specific racial, ethnic, or other groups.

Discuss discrimination and distinguish between individual and institutional discrimination.

The "Trail of Tears" was one of the most disastrous acts of forced assimilation that African Americans experienced in the United States.

Diversity training programs are attempts at getting people to discard their negative stereotypes about race.

Initially, children do not have a frame of reference from which to question the prejudices of their relatives and friends. When they are rewarded with smiles or laughs for telling derogatory jokes or making negative comments about outgroup members, children's prejudiced attitudes may be reinforced. According to symbolic interactionists, this exemplifies __________.

In sports, calling a player of color a derogatory name, participating in racist chanting during a sporting event, and writing racist graffiti in a team's locker room are all forms of __________ racism.

An umpire dislikes African Americans and with deliberate intent, often makes official calls incorrectly when black players are at bat. According to sociologist Robert Merton's typology of prejudice and discrimination, this coach is a/an __________.

According to sociologist Robert Merton's typology of prejudice and discrimination, __________ are not personally prejudiced and do not discriminate against others.

The ultimate form of discrimination occurs when people are considered to be unworthy to live because of their race or ethnicity. An example of this is __________ , the deliberate, systematic killing of an entire people or nation.

Outline sociologist Joe Feagin's four major types of discrimination and provide examples of each.

Switzerland has been described as a model of __________ pluralism; more than 6 million people with French, German, and Italian cultural heritages peacefully coexist there.

White, ethnic immigrants of Irish and Italian descent have been the most privileged group in the United States.

To sociologists, a __________ is one whose members, because of physical or cultural characteristics, are disadvantaged and subjected to unequal treatment by the controlling group and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination.

Often members of subordinate racial and ethnic groups become __________ and are often blamed for societal problems (such as unemployment or an economic recession) over which they have no control.

A person may decide not to rent an apartment to someone of a different race. This would be an example of __________ discrimination.

Segregation may be enforced by law. __________ segregation refers to laws that systematically enforced the physical and social separation of African Americans in all areas of public life.

In the United States, indigenous groups lost property, political rights, aspects of their culture, and often their lives. The effects of past __________ are reflected today in the number of Native Americans who live on government reservations.

Persons of color and white women are considered to be __________ group members in the United States, particularly when these individuals are from lower-income categories.