Devry socs350 week 2 quiz graded
Question 1
(TCOs 1 & 2) The process of diminishing the value, importance, contributions, or attributes of a category of people is _____.
globalization
prejudice
discrimination
marginalization
ethnocentrism
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) This occurs as a result of longstanding practices and/or behaviors that have a negative impact on members of subordinate groups:
individual discrimination.
institutional discrimination.
ethnocentrism.
marginalization.
globalization.
Week 1 Lecture
Question 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:
plateaus.
tortes.
strata.
cliques.
pecking-order.
Week 1 Lecture
Question 6
(TCO 1) Individual discrimination is also called:
illogical.
idiopathic.
personal.
ideological.
prejudice.
Week 1 Lecture
Question 7
(TCO 8) Because minority groups have been marginalized over time, their relationship with the majority group is generally framed in terms of:
formal communication.
distrust.
an uneasy truce.
conflict.
affection.
Week 1 Lecture
Question 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):
unprejudiced nondiscriminator.
prejudiced nondiscriminator.
prejudiced discriminator.
unprejudiced discriminator.
gender discriminator.
Week 1 Lecture
Question 9
2 / 2 pts
(TCOs 1 & 2) Cultural diversity is defined in the lecture as:
the demographic breakdown of a population.
the variety of cultural offerings in a metro region.
the existence of a wide variety of cultures and subcultures represented within a society.
the number of languages spoken among a specific population.
the array of ethnic restaurants in a given area.
Week 1 Lecture
Question 10
(TCO 1 & 2) Marginalization is defined as
the process of diminishing the value, importance, contributions, or attributes of a category of people.
the process of gentrification.
the displacement of inner-city residents due to urban renewal.
seating minorities near the kitchen and “on the margins” in restaurants.
societal triage.
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