SOC Chapter 14

The concept of "race" refers to:

Which of the following concepts refers to a shared cultural heritage?

Race refers to _____ considered important by a society; ethnicity refers to _____.

Which of the following concepts refers to a category of people, distinguished by physical or cultural traits, who are socially disadvantaged?

A minority is defined as a category of people who are:

You would be expressing a "stereotype" if you:

Scapegoat theory states that prejudice is created by:

Authoritarian personality theory states that extreme prejudice is:

Conflict theory states that prejudice is:

While prejudice is a matter of _____, discrimination is a matter of _____.

Which of the following concepts refers to a state in which racial and ethnic minorities are distinct, but have social parity?

Assimilation refers to the pattern by which: .

The Matsui family came to the United States from Japan thirty years ago. They now speak English at home and the Matsui children date non-Japanese students at college. This family's story is closest to which of the following concepts?

Which of the following concepts refers to biological reproduction by people of different racial categories?

The adoption of the English language by Mexican immigrants to the United States is an example of:

Which of the following concepts refers to the physical and social separation of categories of people?

In most cases, race and ethnicity refer to the same thing.

Being Greek, Italian, or Vietnamese involves a distinctive ethnicity.

Ethnicity is harder to change than racial identity

All members of a minority category are poor.

Sociologically speaking, a minority is any category that is numerically less than half of a society's population.:

Prejudice is a rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people

Research with the social distance scale among U.S. college students scale shows increasing social acceptance of people of various racial and ethnic categories over time