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The shift from agrarian technology to machine-based, manufacturing technology is called:

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Industrial Revolution

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As societies industrialize, dominant-minority relations move from:

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Paternalistic to competitive forms

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Which of the following are NOT true of paternalistic systems?

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They tend to have a simple division of labor determined by the group

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In agrarian society work was

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Labor intensive

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The period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War was a time of

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Opportunity for black southerners

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which of the following is True about the period of Reconstruction?

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African american in south could vote, held political office, owned property, schools were open in south for african americans and they found many small business.

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By 1910, black labor in the United States was most characterized by

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Agricultural and Domestic work

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which of the following is an example of modern institutional discrimination?

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companies moving from inner city areas to suburbs to reduce their expenses

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During Reconstruction, the South was characterized by

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A rigid caste system under the policy known as Jim Crow

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This replaced slavery in the south

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Subtle Racism

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As de jure segregation formed and solidified in the south

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levels of prejudice and racism increased

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in what case in 1896, the supreme court established the separate but equal doctrine

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Plessy v Ferguson

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At the height of the Jim crow era, the system had evolved to the point that

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some courtrooms maintained separate bible for African Americans

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When European immigrants moved out of the northern slum areas, who was most likely to move in after them

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African americans moving from the south

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Which of the following laws did not restrict African American in the south from voting

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Poll taxes

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The plantation owners solved their labor problem after the end of slavery by developing the

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sharecropping system

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Under the Jim Crow system, as under slavery, the subordination of the African American community was reinforced and supplemented by and elaborate system of

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Racial etiquette

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compare to white women at the turn of the twentieth century, African American women were

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More likely to work outside the home

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Deindustrialization, the shift from manufacturing to service and information jobs has resulted

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loss of millions of high paying jobs, industrial jobs moving to other nation, automation/robotics increasing in factories, new jobs that are low pay low skills with few benefits or security

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This is sometimes called the competitive market, includes low paying , low skilled, insecure jobs

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Secondary labor market

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The two groups protected to increase dramatically in the united state over the next half century are

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Asian and Pacific Islander and Hispanic Americans

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The population of the United States is currently

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long standing un resolved minority issues, rising immigrant rate, increase in diversity, increase in multilingual

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Which of the following is not one the defining characteristics of a minority group?

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small group size

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The largest minority group in the united states is

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Hispanics

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which of the following would be classified as primarily an ethnic minority group

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Jewish Americans

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people classified as Asian and Pacific Islander

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represent many different nation and linguistic background, never be mistaken for unchanging or natural division between people, vary many ways such as class, religion, ....

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in the next 50 years the total percentage of minority group Americans is projected to increase to

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50 %

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The social or physical characteristics that mark the boundaries between groups are usually

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high visible

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which of the following is not an example of a cultural trait that may be associated with minority status

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Religion

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Skin color is an important marker of group membership in our society because

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it was selected during a complex and lengthy historical process and became important because we attributed significant to it

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which of the following characteristics is not typical of ascribed status?

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it can be altered through hard work and motivation

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Laws on miscegenation referred to laws that prevented

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members of different race from intermarrying

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Stratification is another term form

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the unequal distribution of valued resources

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societies are divided into horizontal layers (or strata) often called

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NONE

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Marxism is a theory of history and social change in which __ is a central concept

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inequality

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The most important source of inequality arises from a persons relationship to the means of production. This statement might be heard from a

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Marxist

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Marx believed that conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat was inevitable and that the ultimate result of this class struggle would be

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a classless society

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which of the following people best illustrate the difference between prestige and class

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Mary Ann O' Brien the fourth generation Irish Catholic

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In examining inequality, Weber might argue that a famous and wealthy rapper might rank

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high on class, low on prestige

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Max weber though that Marx's ideas about inequality were too

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complex

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in opposition to marx, weber argued that there are ______ dimensions of inequality

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three

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According to Weber, a person who became rich by cleaning septic tanks would be higher on ______ but lower on _______

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class, prestige

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Gerhard Lenkst is important because he linked the nature of inequality to the _____ of a society

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levels of development

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The United States is often referred to as a(n)

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Postindustrial society

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According to Weber, a princess who was rich but fell on hard times and lost all of her wealth would be

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high on prestige, low on class

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According to Lenski's theory, inequality in a postindustrial society would center on control of

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Educational opportunities and technologies

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Stratification is an important concept in the study of minority groups because

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minority groups are often created by struggles over control of valued goods and services.

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In western Europe, scientific and philosophical interest in the concept of race began

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during the age of European conquest and colonization of non whites

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variations in human skin color

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are inversely related to the concentration of melanin: the greater the melanin, the lighter the skin

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the most viable marker of minority group membership is skin color, and it is

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superficial and relatively important, regarded as a matter of great significance, and a creation of historical and social processes

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women can be viewed as a minority group because

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they are physically identifiable as different from men and they have less property, prestige, and power in our society.

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As the individual level, the thinking/feeling dimensions of minority group mistreatment is called

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ideological racism

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history generally has been written from the standpoint of the winer this statement can be reflected in which of the following

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all above #33

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the feeling aspect of prejudice is called the _______ dimension

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affective

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a person sees a Mexican American male and assumes he is an illegal immigrant. This is an example of

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prejudice leading to institutionalized discrimination

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When entire groups are treated unfairly and unequally in the inceptions of the larger society, this is called

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institutional discrimination

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The unequal treatment of a group or individual based on his or her group membership is

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discrimination

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you work at the local bank as a loan processor. Although, you believe that white and African American should be treated equally, your boss demands that you turn down any loans by blacks. According to the text you are

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unprejudiced discriminator

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minority group status affects access to different life chance including

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better health care, access to wealth/income, decent housing, higher education

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A social situation in which prejudice is strongly approved and supported might

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evoke discrimination in otherwise unprejudiced individuals

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The distinction between prejudice and discrimination is

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prejudice is the attitude, discrimination is a behavior

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institutional discrimination is often difficult to identify and measure because

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the individual who implement it may be non prejudice and unaware of what they are doing

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according to your book, which of the following could not be considered minorities

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whites

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which of the following would Lawrence hill (developing a racial identity) disagree with based on his own experiences growing up in Canada

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mixed race people often experience limbo because others don't know what to make of their racial identity

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which of the following is false regarding gender

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sociologists consider gender and race to be similar social construct in that there is little debate about the role of biology in either case

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societies that have a tradition of male dominance where men have centric over the economy and leadership positions in religion politics and other institutions are

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patriarchal

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researchers taking a future perspective argue that women and men are different because

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girls and boys are taught to act in different ways

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Michelle is a poor african american women. her race, class, gender may combine to produce a unique kind of inequality. The concept that describe this phenomenon is known as

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Matrix of domination

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the primary goal of samaritans on the border is to

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reduce the number of migrant deaths

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the degree of income inequality between African Americans and european americans has lessened during the past 30 year (true or false)

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true

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prejudice is to discrimination as

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thinking is to doing

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which of the following is not an example of the affective dimension of prejudice

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stereotyping and overgeneralization

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___________ are exaggerated generalizations about groups of people and tend to be overly simplistic and difficult to prove

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stereotypes

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many years ago, a european american storeowner in a racist town succumbed to pressure from other and agreed to ban blacks though he was not prejudiced at all.This is an example of

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Fair weather liberal

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selective perception

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is a tendency to see beyond ones own observation

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which of the following represent the two types of stereotypes

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black as being lazy, stupid, and irresponsible and Chinese people are too sly, too ambitious

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Harley(1946) demonstrated there can be a generalized tendency to reject minority groups of all sorts and stereotypes can exist apart from any need to rationalize or justify dominant group advantages when he found that

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some people will express prejudice against people who do not exist

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which of the following is an example of selective perception

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All #8 CH3

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Which concept below best describes someone who is prejudiced and does discrimate

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an all weather bigot

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stereotypes vary by

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class, race, gender

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a study of Princeton university undergraduate provided the following

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all of the above #11 ch3

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In Sherifs Robbers Cave experiment

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None #13 CH3

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one problem with the scapegoat hypothesis is that it

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deemphasizes the economic, political , and social forces that shape behavior

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according to marxism, the capitalist class in the early twentieth century controlled the racially mixed working class by

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a strategy of divide and conquer

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a small town experiences a wave of anti minority group violence in the weeks following that announcement of massive layoffs at the local factory. These incidents would be consistence with predications of

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the scapegoat hypothesis

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which of the following is though to be an important cause of authoritarian personalities

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childhood experiences in excessively strict home situtaitons

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according to your text, what factor play a role in the origins of prejudice

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socialization and competition

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a criticism of the authoritarian personality theory of prejudice is that

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does not consider the social settings in which an individual is acting

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explanations of the persistence of prejudice through time stress

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culture and socialization

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emory bogardus specified a total of seven degrees of social distance. which of the following is not one of them

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culture

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the concept of social distance best reflects

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the degree of intimacy we are willing to permit

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your book details american social distance score from 1926 to 2001. which if the following was not found in that research

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racial minorities such as african americans ranked above groups with origins in northern and western europe

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in the american dilemma, dr gunnar myrdal suggest that there is a basic conflict or dissonance between

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basically egalitarian values and the discriminatory behaviors simultaneously

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the robber cave experiment supports the idea that prejudice can be caused by

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conflict situation between groups

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the elite segments of american society are using prejudice and racism to manipulate the thoughts and ideas of minority groups and to brainwash them into accepting their position in society, this statement is most consistent with

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marxist analysis

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in split labor maket theory there are 3 actors in the economic sector of an industrial society these actors are

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elites , higher priced labor, and cheaper labor

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you her someone say that all women are bad drivers all jews are greedy and all nations drive low riders. these are example of

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stereotypes

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when power differentials in a society are not very extreme, which of the following stereotypes is most likely to emerge about a minority group

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too smart

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when minority groups in a society are exploited and held in a powerless status by the dominant group which of the following stereotype sis most likely to emerge about that minority group

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lazy

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Germany lost world war 1 and experience severe problems withe economic recession, unemployment, and horrific inflation during the 1920s. which theory/ theories best explains the rise of the Nazi party in Germany in the 1930s

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scapegoat theories

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which of the following best explains irrational forms of prejudice

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personality centered theories

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some research suggests prejudice is declining in the united states, which suggests it might not be declining

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modern racism and hate crimes

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the idea that racism is changing form to a more subtle way of expressing negative feelings is called

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modern racism

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which of the following ate the key factors, according to split labor market theories

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higher priced labor, lower priced labor

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a major point in gunnar myriad's an american dilemma was that

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americans learn norms fairness and justice along with norms that condone

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most reported hate crimes are

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racially motivated with blacks as the target

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what are two general stereotypes of minority groups

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extreme inferiority and power and status differences

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marxism also explains group competition and prejudice by suggesting

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elittes control the means of production and also the ideas and intellectual activity in a society

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herber bluer says prejudice

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is activated when groups feel that they are threatened by groups they see as beneath them

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one of the variances that researchers suggest is a cause of the decline in prejudice is

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education

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the contact theory of prejudice argues that four conditions need to be present to reduce prejudice

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equal status, common goals, intense interaction, and have active endorsement of authority

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according to the sociologists eduardo bonilla silva the new form of prejudice is expressed

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in neutral language or objective terms

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one of the major criticisms of modern racism is it seems to

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confound prejudice with political conservatism

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prejudice has at least two dimensions and affective or emotional dimensions and a cognitive or thinking dimensions (true or false)

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true

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discrimination ia the tendency to think and feel negatively about the members off other groups (true or false)

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false

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stereotypes are central to the affective dimensions of prejudice (true or false)

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false

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personality based theories of prejudice include the spilt labor market theory (T OR F)

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FALSE

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It is possible for an individual to be prejudice and not discriminate, but not for a person to discriminate without being prejudice (T OR F)

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True

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