Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class Chapter 3 quiz

Modern racism tends to be consistent with some tenets of the ___ perspective.

traditional assimilation

African Americans who identify as gay are more likely to experience a hate crime than African Americans who identify as straight.

True

According to Marxism, the capitalist class in the early twentieth century controlled the racially mixed working class by ___.

a strategy of divide and conquer

What are two general stereotypes of minority groups?

extreme inferiority and power and status differences

The ____ discriminates without prejudice.

fair-weather liberal

One of the variables that researchers suggest is a cause of the decline in prejudice is ____.

education

The _____ satisfies characteristics for a positive contact experience.

contact experience

The _____ illustrates the power of culture to shape individual perceptions.

social distance patterns

One of the major criticisms of modern racism is it seems to ____.

confuse prejudice with political conservatism

Racist ideas and behaviors are ____.

learned from others

Individual prejudice ____.

is not the same as individual racism

Personality-based theories of prejudice include the split-labor market theory.

false

Most hate crimes are motivated by ____.

race

The equal status contact hypothesis specifies ____ conditions under which intergroup contact can reduce prejudice.

four

Working-class and lower class White men ____.

commit the bulk of hate crimes

Research using social distance scales demonstrates that prejudice exists apart from individuals and that is passed from generation to generation.

true

Changes in social environment _____.

will have relatively little impact on some types of prejudice

Prejudice is to discrimination as ____.

thinking is to doing

"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 ____.

Marxist analysis

Prejudice ____.

may vary by situation