Exam 1: Exploring Race and Ethnicity

The cultural traits that make groups distinctive usually originate from their ________.

The structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal rewards and power in a society is called ________.

Which of the following terms refers to the physical separation of two groups of people in terms of residence, workplace, and social functions?

The worldwide integration of government policies, cultures, social movements, and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas is known as ________.

Members of a minority or subordinate group ________.

Which of the following allows a minority group to express its own culture in the larger society without suffering prejudice or discrimination?

________ occurs when a specific subordinate group is forced by dominant groups to leave certain areas or even vacate a country.

In certain situations, an individual may respond to stereotypes and act on them, with the result that false definitions become accurate. This is known as ________.

Discuss how conflict sociologists see the social world as being in continual struggle. When is the conflict model selected?

Which of the following perspectives on race and ethnicity tends to emphasize group tensions between the privileged and the exploited?

Pluralism implies that ________.

In everyday speech, the words fusion and amalgamation are rarely used, but the concept is expressed in the notion of a human ________ in which diverse racial or ethnic groups form a new creation, a new cultural entity.

The maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural dominance over people by a foreign power for an extended period of time is known as ________.

William Ryan's phrase "blaming the victim" refers to ________.

Which of the following statements is true of gender groups?

The term ________ refers to the forced deportation of people, accompanied by systematic violence including death.