Deck 7: Minority Group Movements and Their Impact on Society

Question 1

All of the following changes after WWII precipitated movement-facilitating conditions among American minorities EXCEPT:

A) The trend toward urbanization and industrialization
B) Economic expansion and international changes
C) Economic recessions and high levels of unemployment
D) Mass communications and rising education levels

Answer 1

C

Question 2

In recent years in the United States,illegal drug use among minorities using is:

A) Higher than whites
B) Lower than whites
C) About the same as whites
D) Lower in rural areas then whites and higher in urban areas

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Who was the Chicano leader who worked to unionize agricultural workers?

A) Reies Lopez Tijerina
B) Tony Orlando
C) George Lopez
D) Cesar Chavez

Answer 3

D

Question 4

High suicide rates among ethnic minority groups can probably be attributed to which adaptive strategy to unequal status?

A) Acceptance
B) Displaced aggression
C) Avoidance
D) Seeking assimilation

Question 5

The practice of "passing" or presenting yourself to the world as a white person if you are a minority group member who is close in appearance to white is which adaptive response to unequal status?

A) Acceptance
B) Displaced aggression
C) Avoidance
D) Seeking assimilation

Question 6

What is the acronym for the national organization seeking to protect the rights of Native Americans?

A) AIM
B) NAACP
C) NOW
D) ADC

Question 7

Social movements among Mexican Americans and American Indians during the 1960s and 1970s were based on the following key issues EXCEPT:

A) Destruction of native culture through Indian boarding schools
B) High rates of Hispanic casualties in the Vietnam War
C) Land rights for Indians
D) Protecting the right to vote

Question 8

There has been a shift in this century,particularly since World War II,in the response of minority group members to their subordinate status.Which of the following characterizes that shift?

A) Away from adaptation and toward change
B) Away from change and toward adaptation
C) Away from peaceful protest toward violence
D) Away from bold tactics to subtle tactics

Question 9

Indians took over Alcatraz Island,a former federal prison on San Francisco Bay in the 1970's because:

A) A 1868 treaty provided that surplus federal property could be claimed by the Sioux
B) They were protesting the continued imprisonment of several Native American leaders
C) They claimed the federal government owed them money from an 1870 treaty
D) They argued that the federal government was polluting the bay and they had a right to stop that damage

Question 10

Although court rulings in favor of anti-discrimination were important during the 1950s and 1960s,their effectiveness was limited for the following reason:

A) Northern local governments seldom complied quickly
B) Southern local governments sometimes refused to comply at all
C) The rulings only applied to private-sector discrimination
D) The rulings only applied to certain areas of the country

Question 11

The use of alcohol or drugs among minority groups is an example of:

A) Displaced aggression because of a subordinate role
B) Internal acceptance of a subordinate role
C) Avoidance of a subordinate role
D) Subordinate groups seeking to assimilate

Question 12

A necessary condition for a social movement to take place is when people feel worse off than others or feels deprived of what they should have.This is called:

A) Relative deprivation
B) Communication network
C) Resources
D) Sense of efficacy

Question 13

Change-oriented movements may seek all of the following EXCEPT:

A) Bring about system wide assimilation
B) Build alternative, minority controlled institutions
C) Alter the nature of minority-majority relations
D) Trying to make a subordinate situation tolerable

Question 14

Which of the following is an adaptive response to subordinate or minority status?

A) Feigned or real acceptance
B) Seeking legal changes
C) Legal strikes and boycotts
D) Illegal protests

Question 15

A response to subordinate or minority status where the person takes out their frustration on an easier or more available target rather than the true source of the unequal status is called:

A) Acceptance
B) Displaced aggression
C) Avoidance
D) Seeking assimilation

Question 16

Immediately after Martin Luther King,Jr.was assassinated,the response of many African Americans was:

A) Resorting back to adaptive strategies
B) Reaching out to white racist groups for peace talks
C) Violent outbursts in many cities in the United States
D) An increased enrollment in the numbers of African Americans joining the military

Question 17

Acceptance as an adaptive strategy response to unequal status involves:

A) Pretending or truly accepting the lower status of your group
B) Taking out your frustration on someone who is easier or more available as a target than the true source of the inequality
C) Practicing "passing" as a majority group member in society
D) Avoiding reminders of the inequality one is often forced to experience

Question 18

Which of the following is a legal strategy of movements seeking change in minority status?

A) Disruptive sit-ins
B) Riots
C) Lawsuits
D) Bombings

Question 19

Dr.Martin Luther King preached the principles and philosophy of nonviolent resistance developed by:

A) Elijah Muhammad
B) Malcolm X
C) Mahatma Gandhi
D) Rosa Parks

Question 20

Which of the following is one of the conditions necessary for a social movement to develop?

A) Absolute deprivation
B) A communication network
C) A sense of helplessness among the minority group
D) Extreme, society-wide poverty

Question 21

6.Black-on-black and Latino-on-Latino crime is very rare in the United States today.

Question 22

Social change is more likely in urban areas than rural for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

A) Because of the large number of people in urban areas there is a variety of opinions and lifestyles
B) Greater freedom and independence in urban areas encourages antiestablishment ideas
C) The fact that so many people share the same view of the world
D) Social control is more difficult since it is less likely that local officials will know everyone

Question 23

9.For a social movement to be successful people must have a sense that they have something to gain by protesting and that the potential gains outweigh the costs.

Question 24

2.What are the necessary conditions for social movements and why is each necessary?

Question 25

2.Substance abuse may be a form of avoidance of subordinate minority status.

Question 26

3.Why are urbanization and industrialization so important in helping to bring about social movements for change among disadvantaged minorities?

Question 27

1.What are adaptive strategies and change-oriented strategies? Give examples of each.

Question 28

7.When homosexuals seek to "pass" as heterosexual,this is an example of the adaptive strategy of seeking assimilation.

Question 29

1.Acceptance of subordinate minority status may be feigned or real.

Question 30

When people realize that a social or political system is vulnerable to change through protest they are more likely to become involved in social movements.This theory is called:

A) Resource mobilization theory
B) Political process theory
C) Relative deprivation theory
D) Social movement organization theory

Question 31

As economic expansion raises expectations of minority group members,the majority are likely to respond in which way?

A) The majority becomes even more resistant to improving the lives of ethnic minorities
B) The majority sees minority group members as less of a threat and is more inclined to respond favorably
C) The majority has no real chance in their attitudes toward minority groups
D) The majority is less interested in helping others at a time when they are interested in advancing their own opportunities or those of their children

Question 32

8.Lawsuits,voter registration drives,legal strikes and boycotts are all examples of adaptive strategies.

Question 33

5.A social movement has,all else being equal,a greater chance of success in a rural setting than in an urban setting.

Question 34

Resource mobilization theory argues that social movements develop:

A) When strong leadership is able to encourage people to join
B) When people feel there is something to be gained by protesting and the potential gains outweigh the potential costs
C) When people who are dissatisfied have the resources to build a social movement
D) When people have developed a strong network for communication among members of their group

Question 35

10.The government of the United States has been forced to be more supportive of the demands for equality of its people of color due to their international leadership with other countries.

Question 36

4.One of the effects of urbanization was to increase feelings of relative deprivation.

Question 37

The importance of mass communications in furthering social movements for oppressed minorities are to add all of the following EXCEPT:

A) Making the majority group more aware of the concerns of minority group members
B) Making people more aware of the contrast between the haves and the have nots
C) Exposing more disadvantaged people to the movements of others elsewhere
D) Creating a revolution in how people receive and exchange information which can lead to a stimulus for protest

Question 38

3.The first condition that must be present for a social movement to form is dissatisfaction.