socs350 week 2 quiz graded

Question 1

 

(TCOs 1 & 2) Those members of society whose cultural understandings and backgrounds are different from one another and from the dominant culture are _____.

  

ethnic groups

 

  

racial groups

 

  

White ethnics

 

 

  

culturally different

 

  

racial/ethnic communities

 

Week 1 Lecture and flash cards

 

Question 2

 

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

  

a race

 

  

culturally diverse

 

  

a culture

 

  

culturally different

 

 

  

racial/ethnic communities

 

Week 1 Lecture and flash cards

 

Question 3

 

(TCOs 1 & 2) One-on-one acts by members of the dominant group that harm subordinate group members or their property are forms of _____.

  

racism

 

  

prejudice

 

 

  

individual discrimination

 

  

institutional discrimination

 

  

marginalization

 

Week 1 Lecture

 

Question 4

 

(TCOs 1 & 2) Majority and minority groups in a society are also called:

  

ordinate and subordinate.

 

  

subordinate and ordinate.

 

 

  

dominant and submissive.

 

 

  

dominant and subordinate.

 

  

dominant and ordinate.

 

Week 1 Lecture

 

Question 5

 

(TCO 8) Institutional discrimination is also called _____ discrimination.

  

foundational

 

 

  

fundamental

 

  

ordinal

 

  

primary

 

 

  

structured

 

Week 1 Lecture

 

Question 6

 

(TCO 1) A negative way of thinking based on irrational evaluations about members of a particular group is _____.

  

discrimination

 

 

  

prejudice

 

  

ideology

 

  

racism

 

  

ethnocentrism

 

Week 1 Lecture

 

Question 7

 

(TCO 8) Unlike the majority group, most minority groups recognize and understand:

 

  

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.

 

Week 1 Lecture

 

Question 8

 

(TCO 8) According to Robert Merton, the restaurant owner who is strongly biased against a customer because of the confederate flag and racist bumper stickers on their Ford F150, yet greets and serves that customer as they would any other, would be a:

 

  

unprejudiced nondiscriminator.

 

 

  

prejudiced nondiscriminator.

 

  

prejudiced discriminator.

 

  

unprejudiced  discriminator.

 

  

politically prejudiced discriminator.

 

Week 1 Lecture

 

Question 9

 

(TCOs 1 & 2) Institutional discrimination occurs due to:

 

 

longstanding practices and/or behaviors that have a negative impact on members of subordinate groups.

  

long-ago agreements between superior and subordinate groups.

 

  

lax internal auditing predating Sarbanes-Oxley.

 

  

loopholes in federal law left over from the Reagan Administration.

 

  

an electoral mandate.

 

Week 1 Lecture

 

Question 10

 

(TCO 1 & 2) The basic definition of ethnic group is:

  

the same as it is for race.

 

  

is outdated and has outlived its usefulness.

 

  

a formalized structure for an ethical group.

 

 

 

a category of people distinguished from the dominant society on the basis of distinctive and identifiable cultural characteristics.

 

a category of people who distinguished the dominant society on the basis of their distinctive yet unidentifiable cultural characteristics.