Exam 1: Introduction: Some Basic Concepts

Where racial and ethnic consciousness is strong, people tend to see their own racial or ethnic group as superior to others.This reflects:

Sociology is scientific insofar as:

Which of the following is not among the characteristics of an ethnic group?

Ethnic groups such as the Basques in Spain are distinct from ethnic groups in the U.S.insofar as the Basques:

According to the author, the election of Barack Obama indicates that:

Racist thought is inherently:

Many persons who are categorized as "black" in the United States would be considered "white" in Brazil.This demonstrates that:

The works of Herrnstein, Murray, and Jensen have been _________ by mainstream social scientists.

In which of the following countries is there a high degree of ethnic diversity?

Ethnic identities are often unchangeable because they are:

Since the 1970s, the United States has:

The social construction of race is illustrated by which of the following?

Which of the following best illustrates cultural racism?

Groupings of people with one or a number of similar characteristics but with little sense of membership and little interaction among them are called:

There is a consensus of thought among social scientists regarding:

There are generally __________ differences between black people born in Haiti and the United States.

The increasing salience of ethnicity around the globe:

Concerning the idea of race, which of the following is correct?

Consider this 1930s quotation from George Bernard Shaw, the British playwright and author: "The haughty American nation … makes the Negro clean its boots, and then proves the … inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack." Shaw's statement describes the concept of:

In the U.S.Census of 1890, racial categories included "octoroon," "quadroon," and "mulatto." The fact that such racial categories no longer exist illustrates that: