Exam 8: Race and Ethnic Group Stratification: Beyond Us and Them

Assimilation is more likely to occur when the minority group is culturally similar to the dominant group.

List and briefly discuss the four reactions minority group members commonly have to their status in society.

Compare and contrast side-effect and past-in-present discrimination. Provide an example of each.

Ethnic groups are based on all of the following EXCEPT:

Which of the following is a function of a ready labor force, according to structural-functional theorists?

Joseph lives in a country where he is not allowed to go to school with White students since he is not White. He can only eat in certain restaurants, and he has a government-mandated curfew based on his race. He cannot buy a house in certain parts of town and must sit on the left side of the bus. Joseph lives in a town that is ______.

The definition of Blackness in the United States has always been that an individual is Black if at least one or more of the person's parents is Black.

The following statement about immigration in the United States is false:

When the Serbian army massacred Bosnian civilians while conducting "ethnic cleansing," they were participating in ______, in which the dominant group makes a systematic effort to destroy a minority group.

Strict affirmative action, in its simplest and original form, involves taking affirmative or positive steps to make sure that unintentional discrimination does not occur.

The courts have largely upheld quota systems when challenged.

Recent studies show all of the following EXCEPT that:

List and briefly discuss the two costs of racism presented in the text.

Which of the following solutions addresses racism at the societal level?

According to frustration-aggression theory, people rarely displace their frustration by attacking irresponsible parties.

Sociologists Without Borders, or SSF (Sociólogos Sin Fronteras), is an organization committed to the idea that "some people have equal rights to political and legal protections, to socioeconomic security, to self-determination, and to their personality."

A minority reaction to racial prejudice or racial discrimination that addresses meso- and/or macro-level issues is called ______.

The term minority group is used to denote a group that is the statistical minority in a society or culture.

Evaluate micro-, meso-, and macro-level attempts to either end preferential treatment toward a dominant group or the disadvantage of a minority group. In your essay, highlight the desired change intended by the policy or practice. Also, evaluate the effectiveness of the policy or practice's efforts to meet its intended goal. Finally, propose a social policy or change that would address minority group disadvantage at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels, and evaluate the potential effectiveness of the practice you propose.

According to most sociologists, race is a social construct that can change with conditions in a country.