Deck 2: Class

Question 1

The key issue for Omi and Winant in using class-based explanations of race is that…

A) Such explanations focus too much on culture in explaining discrimination and stratification.
B) Such explanations focus too much on nationality in explaining discrimination and stratification.
C) Such explanations do not mention class enough in explaining discrimination and stratification.
D) Such explanations overemphasize gender in explaining discrimination and stratification.
E) Such explanations minimize the role of race in explaining discrimination and stratification .

Answer 1

E

Question 2

Which of the following class-based approach explains racial discrimination in the economy as the result of whites' "taste for discrimination"?

A) Disruptive state practices
B) Racial formation theory
C) Monopolistic practices modal
D) Irrational prejudice model .
E) Stratification theory

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The notion of a "race tax" suggests that…

A) Blacks in the U.S. pay higher income taxes than whites.
B) The American economy gives whites an unfair advantage in accessing food, housing, and jobs .
C) Whites have lost jobs and resources to non-whites due to affirmative action policies.
D) Whites who have historically benefited from racism should pay non-whites for the historic discrimination they've faced in the U.S.
E) Non-whites pay more income tax than whites.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

All of the following are Omi and Winant's critiques of class-based paradigms on race and its role in social stratification except

A) Class-based paradigms focus too much on economic relationships as the primary dimension of race and racism.
B) Class-based paradigms focus too little on race and racism as a primary cause of social stratification.
C) Class-based paradigms focus too much on racial inequality when some inequality is necessary in every society (application question - no specific reference point).
D) Class-based paradigms focus too little on culture as an extra-economic factor.
E) Class-based paradigms focus too little on the political agency of people of color.

Question 5

Which of the following scholar's research suggested that deindustrialization, globalization, and urban ghettos were the causes of the racial disadvantage and discrimination faced by blacks in America?

A) Howard Winant
B) W.E.B. Du Bois
C) Douglas Massey
D) Gunnar Myrdal
E) William J. Wilson .

Question 6

Sociologist Edna Bonacich argued that white workers tend support exclusionary practices and policies to keep out non-white workers, particularly in labor markets where there is higher unemployment and greater competition for low-wage jobs. Which of the class-based paradigms noted by Omi and Winant best describes this position?

A) Ethnicity paradigm
B) Class conflict paradigm .
C) Market-based approach paradigm
D) Racial discrimination paradigm
E) Stratification paradigm

Question 7

The monopolistic practices model explains that…

A) Society is structured for the interests of whites .
B) Whiteness is just one variable and not an economic resource itself.
C) Competition encourages monopolies in America.
D) Whites become part-owners of economic capital with other groups who have the capital to compete.
E) Non-whites have to develop their own economic system to challenge white systems.

Question 8

When whites use the state to create policies to distort the labor market in favor of whites or to exclude other racial groups, this is called…

A) A race incentive.
B) A rational prejudice.
C) A disruptive state intervention
D ) A natural part of free market competition.
E) Union busting.

Question 9

Omi and Winant point out that Douglas Massey's work on racial stratification

A) Suggests that racial inequality has nothing to do with biological/evolutionary dynamics.
B) Suggests that racial inequality is due to irrational prejudice by whites.
C) Argues like William J. Wilson that class is the most important variable in explaining racial inequality.
D) Argues that ethnicity and immigration status are key to racial inequality.
E) Suggests that racial inequality is due to cognitive structures that are built-in to human consciousness .

Question 10

Which of the following arguments about race views it as a secondary manifestation of the real problem of "false consciousness"?

A) Class conflict theory .
B) Stratification theory
C) Ethnicity theory
D) Racial formation theory
E) Nation-based theory