Devry SOCS350 week 1 quiz 2016

1. (TCOs 1 & 2) The process of diminishing the value, importance, contributions, or attributes of a category of people is _____. (Points : 10)

globalization

prejudice

discrimination

marginalization

ethnocentrism

Question 2. 2. (TCOs 1 & 2) Collections of persons from common racial or ethnic backgrounds who share common cultural interests are _____. (Points : 10)

a race

culturally diverse

a culture

culturally different

racial/ethnic communities

Question 3. 3. (TCOs 1 & 2) Caucasians with origins other than Northern or Western European who still hold and value their ethnic identity but do so without social cost are _____. (Points : 10)

a culture

an ethnic group

Whites

White ethnics

a race

Question 4. 4. (TCOs 1 & 2) This occurs as a result of longstanding practices and/or behaviors that have a negative impact on members of subordinate groups: (Points : 10)

individual discrimination.

institutional discrimination.

ethnocentrism.

marginalization.

globalization.

Question 5. 5. (TCO 8) In all industrial societies, majority and minority groups are arranged in layers reflecting their relationships with one another. These layers are also called: (Points : 10)

plateaus.

tortes.

strata.

cliques.

pecking-order.

Question 6. 6. (TCO 1) Individual discrimination is also called: (Points : 10)

illogical.

idiopathic.

personal.

ideological.

prejudice.

Question 7. 7. (TCO 8) Unlike the majority group, most minority groups recognize and understand: (Points : 10)

cultural differences.

differences among members of the other group.

differences among members of their own group.

a different culture as “their own.”

the value of hard work.

Question 8. 8. (TCO 8) According to Robert Merton, an apartment manager who believes in equal opportunity in housing, is told by the apartment owner that if he wants to keep his job, not to rent apartments to Asians, because their cooking bothers other tenants, would be a(n): (Points : 10)

unprejudiced nondiscriminator.

prejudiced nondiscriminator.

prejudiced discriminator.

unprejudiced discriminator.

gender discriminator.

Question 9. 9. (TCO 1 & 2) Prejudice is defined as: (Points : 10)

a negative way of thinking based on irrational evaluations about members of a particular racial group.

a negative way of thinking based on irrational evaluations about members of a different gender.

a negative way of thinking based on irrational evaluations about members of a different sexual orientation.

a negative way of thinking based on rational evaluations about members of a particular group.

a negative way of thinking based on irrational evaluations about members of a particular group.

Question 10. 10. (TCO 1 & 2) The basic definition of race is: (Points : 10)

a category of people who distinguish others by identifiable physical characteristics that distinguish others from them.

a category of people distinguished by identifiable inherited physical characteristics that distinguish them from other groups.

the same as that for ethnicity.

is outdated and has outlived its usefulness.

classified as a disorder in the original version of the DSM.