Question 1

What fraction of undergraduates at the University of California,Berkeley are nonwhite?

Accepted Answer

A) 1/10 
B) 1/3 
C) 1/2 
D) 2/3 
E) 9/10 
A) 1/10 
B) 1/3 
C) 1/2 
D) 2/3 
E) 9/10

Question 2

A major new influx of immigrants from __________ arrived in the United States in the 1880s and 1890s.

Accepted Answer

A) northwestern Europe 
B) southern and eastern Europe 
C) Latin America 
D) Asia 
E) Africa 
A) northwestern Europe 
B) southern and eastern Europe 
C) Latin America 
D) Asia 
E) Africa

Question 3

What did the 1964 Civil Rights Act do?

Accepted Answer

A) banned discrimination in public facilities, education, employment, and any agency receiving government funds 
B) outlawed discriminatory voting practices 
C) outlawed discrimination in the rental or purchase of homes 
D) banned all race-based legal restrictions on marriage 
E) created a fully racially just society 
A) banned discrimination in public facilities, education, employment, and any agency receiving government funds 
B) outlawed discriminatory voting practices 
C) outlawed discrimination in the rental or purchase of homes 
D) banned all race-based legal restrictions on marriage 
E) created a fully racially just society

Question 4

Blaming immigrants for high unemployment rates is an example of:

Accepted Answer

A) scapegoating 
B) victimizing 
C) racializing 
D) institutional racism 
E) discrimination 
A) scapegoating 
B) victimizing 
C) racializing 
D) institutional racism 
E) discrimination

Question 5

The term that describes the differences in human physical characteristics used to categorize large numbers of individuals is:

Accepted Answer

A) ethnicity 
B) ethnocentrism 
C) race 
D) racism 
E) heredity 
A) ethnicity 
B) ethnocentrism 
C) race 
D) racism 
E) heredity

Question 6

The transferring of ideas or emotions from their true source to another object is known as:

Accepted Answer

A) transference 
B) stereotyping 
C) discriminating 
D) racializing 
E) displacing 
A) transference 
B) stereotyping 
C) discriminating 
D) racializing 
E) displacing

Question 7

Which of the following statements concerning segregation is NOT true?

Accepted Answer

A) In apartheid-era South Africa, laws forced blacks to live separately from whites and forbade sexual relations between races. 
B) In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Loving v.Virginia that the prohibition of interracial marriage violated the right to privacy. 
C) In 1967, racial intermarriage was still a crime in most southern states. 
D) Interracial marriage had always been legal in most northern states. 
E) Today, de facto segregated residential areas still exist in many U.S.cities. 
A) In apartheid-era South Africa, laws forced blacks to live separately from whites and forbade sexual relations between races. 
B) In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Loving v.Virginia that the prohibition of interracial marriage violated the right to privacy. 
C) In 1967, racial intermarriage was still a crime in most southern states. 
D) Interracial marriage had always been legal in most northern states. 
E) Today, de facto segregated residential areas still exist in many U.S.cities.

Question 8

The term that describes patterns of discrimination based on ethnicity that have become structured into existing social institutions is:

Accepted Answer

A) interpersonal racism 
B) institutional racism 
C) multiculturalism 
D) segregation 
E) scapegoating 
A) interpersonal racism 
B) institutional racism 
C) multiculturalism 
D) segregation 
E) scapegoating

Question 9

The early wave of immigrants to the United States,from the 1820s to the 1880s,was mostly from:

Accepted Answer

A) northwestern Europe 
B) eastern Europe 
C) southern Europe 
D) Latin America 
E) Asia 
A) northwestern Europe 
B) eastern Europe 
C) southern Europe 
D) Latin America 
E) Asia

Question 10

Which of the following statements is NOT true concerning the human classification system developed in 1735 by Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus?

Accepted Answer

A) Linnaeus's system is recognized as the first version of a modern classification scheme of human populations. 
B) Linnaeaus grouped human beings into four basic categories-Europaeus, Americanus, Asiaticus, and Africanus. 
C) Linnaeus assumed that each subgroup had qualities of behavior or temperament that were innate and could not be altered. 
D) Linnaeus acquired much of his data from the writings, descriptions, commentaries, and beliefs of plantation owners, missionaries, slave traders, explorers, and travelers. 
E) Linnaeus's classification scheme was free of the prejudices of Europeans that were prevalent at that time. 
A) Linnaeus's system is recognized as the first version of a modern classification scheme of human populations. 
B) Linnaeaus grouped human beings into four basic categories-Europaeus, Americanus, Asiaticus, and Africanus. 
C) Linnaeus assumed that each subgroup had qualities of behavior or temperament that were innate and could not be altered. 
D) Linnaeus acquired much of his data from the writings, descriptions, commentaries, and beliefs of plantation owners, missionaries, slave traders, explorers, and travelers. 
E) Linnaeus's classification scheme was free of the prejudices of Europeans that were prevalent at that time.

Question 11

Which statement would your textbook authors most agree with?

Accepted Answer

A) Racism is no longer a significant problem for blacks. 
B) In explaining racial inequality between blacks and whites, racism is just as significant now as in the past. 
C) In explaining racial inequality between blacks and whites, class disadvantages are more significant than racism. 
D) Although racial inequality can be partially explained by class disadvantage, it is not the primary explanation. 
E) Class disadvantage is not a problem for blacks. 
A) Racism is no longer a significant problem for blacks. 
B) In explaining racial inequality between blacks and whites, racism is just as significant now as in the past. 
C) In explaining racial inequality between blacks and whites, class disadvantages are more significant than racism. 
D) Although racial inequality can be partially explained by class disadvantage, it is not the primary explanation. 
E) Class disadvantage is not a problem for blacks.

Question 12

In 2007,whites on average could expect to live __________ years longer than African Americans.

Accepted Answer

A) 2.1 
B) 5.3 
C) 15.4 
D) 25.6 
E) 40.2 
A) 2.1 
B) 5.3 
C) 15.4 
D) 25.6 
E) 40.2

Question 13

Which Hispanic group is the largest in the United States?

Accepted Answer

A) Mexican Americans 
B) Puerto Rican Americans 
C) Cuban Americans 
D) El Salvadoran Americans 
E) Guatemalan Americans 
A) Mexican Americans 
B) Puerto Rican Americans 
C) Cuban Americans 
D) El Salvadoran Americans 
E) Guatemalan Americans

Question 14

Industrial development in the North,combined with the mechanization of agriculture in the South,produced a progressive movement of __________ northward starting at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Accepted Answer

A) Europeans 
B) African Americans 
C) Latin Americans 
D) Native Americans 
E) Asians 
A) Europeans 
B) African Americans 
C) Latin Americans 
D) Native Americans 
E) Asians

Question 15

In examining recent trends in global migration,Stephen Castles and Mark Miller (1993)have identified various tendencies that they claim characterize migration patterns today and that are expected to persist in the coming years.Which of the following is NOT a tendency?

Accepted Answer

A) acceleration 
B) diversification 
C) globalization 
D) masculinization 
E) all of the above are tendencies noted by Castles and Miller 
A) acceleration 
B) diversification 
C) globalization 
D) masculinization 
E) all of the above are tendencies noted by Castles and Miller

Question 16

What is NOT an example of a racialized system?

Accepted Answer

A) slavery in the former British colonies in the Americas 
B) apartheid in South Africa 
C) the American South in the early twentieth century 
D) the United States after the dismantling of state-sanctioned segregation during the civil rights era of the 1960s 
E) all of the above ARE examples of racialized systems 
A) slavery in the former British colonies in the Americas 
B) apartheid in South Africa 
C) the American South in the early twentieth century 
D) the United States after the dismantling of state-sanctioned segregation during the civil rights era of the 1960s 
E) all of the above ARE examples of racialized systems

Question 17

Which of the following statements concerning minority groups is true?

Accepted Answer

A) Any group that is less than 50 percent of the population is considered a minority group. 
B) Sociologists consider people with blue eyes a minority group. 
C) Minority groups have some sense of group solidarity. 
D) In the middle of the nineteenth century, Irish immigrants to the United States were immediately accepted as part of the dominant group. 
E) Asians and Jews experience much more discrimination now than in the past. 
A) Any group that is less than 50 percent of the population is considered a minority group. 
B) Sociologists consider people with blue eyes a minority group. 
C) Minority groups have some sense of group solidarity. 
D) In the middle of the nineteenth century, Irish immigrants to the United States were immediately accepted as part of the dominant group. 
E) Asians and Jews experience much more discrimination now than in the past.

Question 18

In American Apartheid (1993),Douglas Massey and Nancy A.Denton argue that ________ is/are responsible for the perpetuation of black poverty and the continued polarization of black and white people.

Accepted Answer

A) the history of racial segregation 
B) impersonal market forces 
C) the biological inferiority of blacks 
D) the cultural inferiority of blacks 
E) none of the above; black poverty and segregation have almost been eliminated 
A) the history of racial segregation 
B) impersonal market forces 
C) the biological inferiority of blacks 
D) the cultural inferiority of blacks 
E) none of the above; black poverty and segregation have almost been eliminated

Question 19

Which is a factor in the rise of modern racism?

Accepted Answer

A) The slave trade could not have been carried on had Europeans not constructed a belief system that allowed them to justify their actions by convincing themselves that Africans belonged to an inferior, even subhuman, race. 
B) Racism helped justify colonial rule over nonwhite peoples and denied them the rights of political participation that were being won by whites in the European homelands of the colonizers. 
C) An opposition between the colors white and black as cultural symbols was deeply rooted in European culture. 
D) The concept of race was invented and diffused. 
E) All of the above are factors. 
A) The slave trade could not have been carried on had Europeans not constructed a belief system that allowed them to justify their actions by convincing themselves that Africans belonged to an inferior, even subhuman, race. 
B) Racism helped justify colonial rule over nonwhite peoples and denied them the rights of political participation that were being won by whites in the European homelands of the colonizers. 
C) An opposition between the colors white and black as cultural symbols was deeply rooted in European culture. 
D) The concept of race was invented and diffused. 
E) All of the above are factors.

Question 20

As of early 2012,there were __________ black members in the U.S.Senate.

Accepted Answer

A) 0 
B) 3 
C) 15 
D) 30 
E) 45 
A) 0 
B) 3 
C) 15 
D) 30 
E) 45

What fraction of undergraduates at the University of California,Berkeley are nonwhite?

A major new influx of immigrants from __________ arrived in the United States in the 1880s and 1890s.

What did the 1964 Civil Rights Act do?

Blaming immigrants for high unemployment rates is an example of:

The term that describes the differences in human physical characteristics used to categorize large numbers of individuals is:

The transferring of ideas or emotions from their true source to another object is known as:

Which of the following statements concerning segregation is NOT true?

The term that describes patterns of discrimination based on ethnicity that have become structured into existing social institutions is:

The early wave of immigrants to the United States,from the 1820s to the 1880s,was mostly from:

Which of the following statements is NOT true concerning the human classification system developed in 1735 by Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus?

Which statement would your textbook authors most agree with?

In 2007,whites on average could expect to live __________ years longer than African Americans.

Which Hispanic group is the largest in the United States?

Industrial development in the North,combined with the mechanization of agriculture in the South,produced a progressive movement of __________ northward starting at the beginning of the twentieth century.

In examining recent trends in global migration,Stephen Castles and Mark Miller (1993)have identified various tendencies that they claim characterize migration patterns today and that are expected to persist in the coming years.Which of the following is NOT a tendency?

What is NOT an example of a racialized system?

Which of the following statements concerning minority groups is true?

In American Apartheid (1993),Douglas Massey and Nancy A.Denton argue that ________ is/are responsible for the perpetuation of black poverty and the continued polarization of black and white people.

Which is a factor in the rise of modern racism?

As of early 2012,there were __________ black members in the U.S.Senate.

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Exam 10: Ethnicity and Race

What fraction of undergraduates at the University of California,Berkeley are nonwhite?

A major new influx of immigrants from __________ arrived in the United States in the 1880s and 1890s.

What did the 1964 Civil Rights Act do?

Blaming immigrants for high unemployment rates is an example of:

The term that describes the differences in human physical characteristics used to categorize large numbers of individuals is:

The transferring of ideas or emotions from their true source to another object is known as:

Which of the following statements concerning segregation is NOT true?

The term that describes patterns of discrimination based on ethnicity that have become structured into existing social institutions is:

The early wave of immigrants to the United States,from the 1820s to the 1880s,was mostly from:

Which of the following statements is NOT true concerning the human classification system developed in 1735 by Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus?

Which statement would your textbook authors most agree with?

In 2007,whites on average could expect to live __________ years longer than African Americans.

Which Hispanic group is the largest in the United States?

Industrial development in the North,combined with the mechanization of agriculture in the South,produced a progressive movement of __________ northward starting at the beginning of the twentieth century.

In examining recent trends in global migration,Stephen Castles and Mark Miller (1993)have identified various tendencies that they claim characterize migration patterns today and that are expected to persist in the coming years.Which of the following is NOT a tendency?

What is NOT an example of a racialized system?

Which of the following statements concerning minority groups is true?

In American Apartheid (1993),Douglas Massey and Nancy A.Denton argue that ________ is/are responsible for the perpetuation of black poverty and the continued polarization of black and white people.

Which is a factor in the rise of modern racism?

As of early 2012,there were __________ black members in the U.S.Senate.

Sociology: Theory and Method

Culture and Society

Socialization, the Life Course, and Aging

Social Interaction and Everyday Life in the Age of the Internet

Groups, Networks, and Organizations

Conformity, Deviance, and Crime

Stratification, Class, and Inequality

Global Inequality

Gender Inequality

Families and Intimate Relationships

Education and Religion

Politics and Economic Life

The Sociology of the Body: Health, Illness, and Sexuality

Urbanization, Population, and the Environment

Globalization in a Changing World

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