QUIZ 5 SOC -SPC

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What term refers to a social construction used historically as an attempt to scientifically classify individuals based on social assignations of meanings?
Race
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What term focuses on the physical traits that are given social meaning?
Race
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What term focuses on shared culture, through language, religion, or customs, for example?
Ethnicity
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What term focuses on political/economical social disadvantage?
Minority Status
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What perspective views race as maintaining social order, with dysfunctions pertaining to how racism wastes talent?
Functionalist View
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What perspective theorizes that the dominant societal group establishes power through racial inequality?
Conflict Theory
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What perspective focuses on symbols and meanings surrounding race, such as stereotyping in media?
Symbolic Interactionism
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What theory, coined by Crenshaw in 1989 and expanded by Hill Collins in 1990, states that multiple identities, such as race, gender, class, or sexuality, intersect in order to create unique experiences?
Intersectionality
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What term refers to a rigid, unfounded generalization about a group?
Prejudice
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What term refers to an exaggerated or oversimplified belief?
Stereotype
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What scale, proposed by Bogardus, measures how closely people accept others, showing that acceptance fluctuates with events?
Social Distance Scale
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What kind of racism involves personal bias?
Individual Racism
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What kind of racism is systemic?
Institutional Racism
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What kind of racism involves extra scrutiny by law enforcement?
Racial Profiling
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What kind of racism is rooted in past oppression?
Historical Racism
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What kind of racism sees one culture as superior?
Cultural Racism
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What kind of racism involves intraracial bias?
Colorism
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What kind of racism ignores inequality?
Color-Avoidance
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Which theory of prejudice states that prejudice is a result from blaming those with less power?
Scapegoat Theory
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Which theory of prejudice theorizes that rigid thinkers prefer hierarchy, thus resulting in prejudice?
Authoritarian Personality
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Which theory of prejudice theorizes that prejudice is learned socially?
Cultural Theory
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Which theory of prejudice states that prejudice is used by society’s elites to justify control?
Conflict Theory
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If prejudice is an attitude, what is the behavior?
Discrimination
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What theory states that if people define situations as real, they are real in consequences?
Thomas Theorem
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Which pattern of interaction involves equal standing and cultural diversity?
Pluralism
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Which pattern of interaction involves the process of minorities adopting the dominant culture?
Assimilation
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Which pattern of interaction involves physical or social separation?
Segregation
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Which pattern of interaction involves the deliberate destruction of a group?
Genocide
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What group was historically forced to assimilate, now undergoing cultural revival?
Native Americans
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What group has been historically dominant, now institutionally influential?
WASPs
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What group has historically been oppressed through slavery?
African Americans
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What group has been historically labeled as the “model minority”?
Asian Americans
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What group is the largest minority in the United States?
Latinos
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What group faced prejudice due to 9/11?
Arab Americans
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What group has largely assimilated today?
White Ethnic Americans
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