Sociology Chapter 9 – Flashcards

What is the total number of Latinos in the United States, including the official tally as well as the estimate of those in the United States illegally?

Of all ethnic groups, in which group are children most likely to grow up with two parents and least likely to be born to a single mother?

The sense that better conditions are soon to follow which, if unfulfilled, increases frustration, is called ________.

The systematic annihilation or attempted annihilation of a people based on their presumed race or ethnicity is called ________.

Of the following, the most extreme example of internal colonialism is ________.

Who developed the theory of prejudice that addressed frustration levels and scapegoats?

Which of the following food choices best illustrates the belief that America is a diverse nation?

How did the 2010 U.S. Census instruct Americans to classify themselves in relation to race?

When an executioner wears a hood he is separating his true identity (the man without a hood) from the one carrying out the execution. Such behavior is part of an effort to separate one's feelings from one's acts, called ________.

What is a group of people with inherited physical characteristics that distinguish it from another group?

What is the largest minority group in the United States today?

What did Ezekiel suggest as the reason why some people are attracted to racist hate groups?

According to Adorno, a(n) ________ is a person who is prejudiced and ranks high on scales of conformity, intolerance, insecurity, respect for authority, and submissiveness to superiors.

Which phrase best describes Miss Rivers' Lodge?

Which state has the highest percentage of minorities?

The practice the South employed after the Civil War to segregate blacks from whites was called ________.

The belief held by many African Americans that lighter skinned African American women are more attractive than those with darker skin is referred to as ________.

Based on the textbook, what are two ways a group becomes a minority?

Tony Pascalucci often wears a shirt that says, "Kiss me, I'm Italian." He flies the Italian flag at his U.S. home, greets people by saying, "Buongiorno," and is known for making the best lasagna in the valley. In view of this, which phrase best describes Tony's behavior?

What is a Chicano?

________ refers to seeing certain features of a situation while ignoring others, and the use of labels to group individual members as if they were all alike.

Slavery and apartheid are both examples of the ways in which a country's dominant group exploits minority groups for its economic advantage. What do sociologists call this policy?

What term did Louis Wirth use to define groups of people who are singled out for unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination?

Prejudice describes ________ while discrimination describes ________.

Under czarist Russia, daily living conditions for Jews were made so intolerable that millions chose to leave Russia and migrate to other countries. This is an example of ________.