Discrimination Quiz

Transfer of money, goods, or services that are not reported to the government and are common in inner-city neighborhoods and poverty-stricken rural areas is known as the ________.

Informal economy

An example of a practice within the informal economy would be __________.

All of the above

• Garage Sales

• babysitting

• Street vending

A fixed standard based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist is called _________.

Absolute Deprivation

White men who were ex-convicts were found to be ________

___, according to research conducted by sociologist Devah Pager.

More likely than Black men with clean records to be asked back after a job interview.

Total discrimination refers to current discrimination operating in the current labor market and ________.

Past discrimination

At one time, many Puerto Ricans were effectively barred from serving in the Chicago Police Department because they failed to meet a height requirement. This was an example of _______.

Institutional Discrimination

The charge that affirmative action programs unfairly penalize White males leads to the view of ________.

Reverse Discrimination

Which term refers to positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs, promotions, and educational opportunities ?

Affirmative Action

From a(n) __________, perspective, by paying low wages to illegal immigrants, employers are able to produce goods and services that are profitable and affordable.

Functionalist

John earned his degree in nursing and after six months on his first job was promoted into a supervisory position. This is an example of the ______.

Glass escalator

In the dual labor market model the economy is divided into two realms with _______.

Menial jobs making up the secondary realm

In what ways has the government attempted to eliminate discrimination ?

All of these

• Enacting laws against redlining

• establishing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

• Ruled against "separate but equal" educational practices

Affirmative action has caused a re-examination of __________.

All of these

• Height and Weight procedures.

• Preferences by law and medical schools for children of alumni

• "Last hired, first fired", policies

Sociologists use what term to refer to the conscious experience of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities ?

Relative Deprivation

Historically, people believed that federal judicial decisions about racial inequality would lead to sweeping social change, but _________ slowed down the minimal change that did occur prior to the 1960s.

States' rights

Glass ceiling describes __________.

Barriers that block promotion of a qualified worker because of gender or minority membership.

Examples of the formal economy include _________.

Banking

The principle of states' rights, that states sovereignty in their own affairs without interference from the federal government, has been invoked to ___________.

Slow civil rights legislation

The 1964 Civil Rights Act led to the establishment of the _______.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commision (EEOC)

An example of a practice within the informal economy would be ________.

All of these

• Garage Sales

• Babysitting

• Street Vending