Chapter 12 Study Set - Sociology

What is the largest minority group in the United States today?

Latinos

What was the Michigan amendment to its state constitution called that makes it illegal for public institutions of any kind to consider race or sex in college admissions, hiring, or awarding contracts?

Proposition 2

The belief held by many African Americans that lighter skinned African American women are more attractive than those with darker skin is referred to as…

Internalized Norms Of The Dominant Group

When Bosnian Serbs practiced “ethnic cleansing” of the Muslim population during the 1990s they employed a combination of…

Political Transfer And Genocide

The group often referred to as the “invisible minority” is…

Native Americans

The Native Americans were to the white American settlers as the … were to the Dutch settlers of South Africa.

Hottentots

In American history who were the “white ethnics”?

White Immigrants To The US

Which statement is the most accurate in regarding the meaning of race?

Race Varies Depending On Society

Based on the textbook, what are two ways a group becomes a minority?

Expansion Or Political Migration

John recently received his semester grades and found that he had failed two courses. John believes that women are really not smart enough to teach at the college level. In this example, the female professors are…

Scape Goating

What is the total number of Latinos in the United States, including the official tally as well as the estimate of those in the United States illegally.

42 Million; 7 Million

Sam, a bartender who saw duty in Vietnam, refuses to serve Asians in his bar because he believes that Asians have no business living in the US. Sam’s actions describe…

Prejudice/Discrimination

When the Native Americans were pacified by the military in the late 1800s they were forced to learn the English language, dress like the white man, renounce their religion, and give up their customs. This was a classic example of…

Forced Assimilation

Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, any Asian was viewed as an enemy of America. This phenomenon that occurs when one ethnic group that resembles another is also discriminated against because of mere association is called…

Spillover Bigotry

While race might reflect our biological heritage, … reflects our cultural heritage.

Ethnicity

The practice the South employed after the Civil War to segregate blacks from whites was called…

Jim Crow Laws

Of the following, the most extreme example of internal colonialism is…

Slavery

Switzerland is made up of four separate ethnic groups which have kept their own languages but are peacefully united politically and economically. This pattern of intergroup relations is an example of…

Pluralism

The sociologist who argued that social class has become the most significant factor in the lives of African Americans in today’s US society was…

William Julius Wilson

According to Adorno, an … is a person who is prejudiced and ranks high on scales of conformity, intolerance, insecurity, respect for authority, and submissiveness to superiors.

Authoritarian Personality

For the last five years Sarah has been trying to recover her ethnic heritage by tracing her family line. This attempt to trace her family line is an example of…

Ethnic Work

Prejudice describes … while discrimination describes…

Attitudes/Actions

Who is the best known Cablinasian?

Tiger Woods

What is another name for multiculturalism?

Pluralism

What term did Louis Wirth use to define groups of people who are singled out for unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination?

Minority Groups