Deck 10: A: Race and Racialization

Question 1

According to scapegoat theory,extreme prejudice is a personality trait linked to people who believe strongly in following cultural norms,traditions,and values.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

A majority is a group of people who outnumber other groups of people within the same country.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

While discrimination is not always intentional,prejudice is.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Assimilation occurs when minority groups retain their cultural identities and the larger society promotes cultural,ethnic,and racial diversity.

Question 5

Genocide has never occurred in North America.

Question 6

Minority group membership means that due to the relatively small size of a given group relative to others,one lacks social power.

Question 7

Sociologists agree that the multicultural model is the ideal way to organize minority/majority relations.

Question 8

Minority groups do not hold prejudices against the dominant group,but they are likely to hold prejudices against other minority groups.

Question 9

Critical race theory examines the ways in which the colonial past has shaped the social,political,and economic experiences of a colonized country.

Question 10

As a general rule,the more obvious the defining characteristic,the more severe the stigma,or negative social labels,assigned to a minority.

Question 11

According to the functionalist perspective,there are no social benefits of prejudice and discrimination.

Question 12

Unlike countries such as Germany,genocide has never been perpetrated against a social group in Canada.

Question 13

With each subsequent generation,the immigrant population becomes more like the dominant culture.

Question 14

Chinese Canadians are the second-largest visible minority group in Canada.

Question 15

Culture theorists would argue that prejudice is part of a culture's social fabric.