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Minority Test
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aristotle said, "we like those who resemble us, and are engaged in the same pursuits." Which of the following concepts best represents Aristotle's statement? | Similarity and attraction |
| Social distance studies have found | a fairly consistent pattern over the decades |
| In the most recent social distance studies which group ranked lowest? | Muslims and Arabs |
| The classification of others based on limited information is known as | Categorical Knowing |
| Moving out of one's country is called | Emigration |
| A 2001 study showed that more than 50 percent of newlyweds met their spouses in the workplace. Sociologically, meeting a spouse at work would be considered a | latent function of workplaces |
| Karl Marx believed that the elite exploited the masses and that this exploitation created tensions and disagreements. Marx's theory is best known as | conflict perspective |
| Use and meaning of symbols is the foundation of | functionalist |
| A sociologist who investigates how people interpret the situations they are in is probably a | interactionalist |
| A minority group is | always the target |
| Aristotle said, "we like those who resemble us, and are engaged in the same pursuits." Which of the following concepts best represents Aristotle's statement? | Similarity and attraction |
| Social distance studies have found | a fairly consistent pattern over the decades |
| In the most recent social distance studies which group ranked lowest? | Muslims and Arabs |
| The classification of others based on limited information is known as | Categorical Knowing |
| Moving out of one's country is called | Emigration |
| A 2001 study showed that more than 50 percent of newlyweds met their spouses in the workplace. Sociologically, meeting a spouse at work would be considered a | latent function of workplaces |
| Karl Marx believed that the elite exploited the masses and that this exploitation created tensions and disagreements. Marx's theory is best known as | conflict perspective |
| Use and meaning of symbols is the foundation of | functionalist |
| A sociologist who investigates how people interpret the situations they are in is probably a | interactionalist |
| A minority group is | always the target of discrimination |
| When marrying, members of a minority group usually practice | Endogamy |
| An example of an ascribed status is a | Female |
| According to parillo, a category of people who share visible biological characteristics and are regarded as a single group is an | race |
| Ethnicity is | A learned or acquired cultural traits shared by a people |
| Which of the following is an ethnic group? | Jewish Americans |
| Susan, a Texas cattle rancher, thinks the Japanese custom of eating raw fish is disgusting. This is an example of | Ethnocentrism |
| In American culture, such things as freedom individualism and equal opportunity are deemed to be highly desirable. In sociological terms these concepts are | Values |
| Which statement is true concerning the functionist perspective | Societal change occurs at a slow, even pace |
| studying race and ethnic relations is | difficult because our values, attitudes, and experiences make our objectivity almost impossible |
| Which of the following is a characteristic of culture | Shared, Acquired, and is transmitted from one generation to the next. |
| emphasis is on social/cultural characteristics. Religious, Polish/ Swedish | Ethnic Group |
| degree of comfort we do or not feel for a group different from ourselves. | Social Distance |
| various parts of society have functions, or positives effects, that promote solidarity and maintain the stability of the whole. | Functionalist theory |
| Karl Marx's. socioeconomic view of an elite exploiting the masses, see society as being continually engaged in a series of disagreements, tensions, and clashes as different groups compete for limited resources. | Conflict Theory |
| examines the microsocial world of personal interaction patterns in everyday life rather than the macrosocial aspects of social institutions and their harmony or conflict. | Interactionalist Theory |
| Consists of all of these elements shared by members of a society and transmitted to the next generation. | Culture |
| culture's rules of conduct- internalized by the members- embodying the society's fundamental expectations. | Norms |
| meaningfully represents something else. | symbols |
| tend toward assimilation with the dominant society. | Convergent subcultures. |
| adhere as much as possible to their own way of life, resisting the dominant culture | persistent subculture |
| Writing by Daniel P Moynihan and Oscar Lewis. Cycle of poverty and deprivation that only outside intervention could overcome. | Culture of Poverty |
| attitudinal system of negative beliefs, feelings, and action-orientations regarding a certain group or groups of people. | Prejudice |
| Levels of prejudice | Cognitive, Emotional, action-oriented. |
| oversimplified generalization by which we attribute certain traits or characteristics to an entire group w/o regard to individual differences. | Stereotypes |
| derogatory word or expression used to describe a racial or ethnic group. | Ethnopaulism |
| not prejudiced and do not discriminate | Unprejudiced Nondiscriminator |
| Free of racial prejudice, but join clubs that exclude radically different people, vote for unfair measures if they would benefit materially from these, keep most minorities out. | Unprejudiced Discriminator |
| many stereotypes about other groups and hostile towards groups | Prejudiced Nondiscriminator |
| openly express there beliefs and discriminate | Prejudiced discriminator |
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