Exam 7: Race and Ethnic Relations

An individual's ethnic background is part of their:

Explain the reasons that biologists and social scientists are not able to identify the number of races in a society or the world.

Discuss institutional racism and its contemporary effects on specific groups in society. Begin your response with a definition of institutional racism.

Most sociologists who specialize in race and ethnic relations are which type of theorist?

A _________ is a category of people who are recognized as distinct based on the basis of a social or cultural criteria such as religion or nationality.

What is the difference between a racial group and an ethnic group? What do they have in common?

Institutional racism can be unintentional and unconscious.

Stereotypes are an important cause of discrimination against African Americans in employment and housing in the United States.

Institutional racism can be deliberate.