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Which of the following refers to an identification with, and feeling part of, an ethnic group and exclusion from certain other groups because of this affiliation? |
| | A) | ethnicity |
| | B) | race |
| | C) | social ethnicity |
| | D) | ascribed identity |
| | E) | ethnocide |
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What is the difference between ethnicity and race? |
| | A) | Race is a biological reality, while ethnicity is a cultural construction. |
| | B) | Ethnicity is the politically correct term for race. |
| | C) | A race is an ethnic group that is assumed to have a biological basis. |
| | D) | The terms are synonymous. |
| | E) | An ethnicity is a racial group that is assumed to have a biological basis. |
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According to social scientists, what is status? |
| | A) | Status is something you acquire through enculturation. |
| | B) | Status encompasses those things you wish you had, but don't. |
| | C) | Status refers to the personal qualities that you inherit from your parents. |
| | D) | Status encompasses all of the positions that people above you occupy, but not the positions that people below you occupy. |
| | E) | Status encompasses the various positions that people occupy in society. |
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Some statuses are mutually exclusive while others are contextual. What is the term for cases when one identity is used in a certain setting, and another in a different setting? |
| | A) | situational negotiation of social identity |
| | B) | negotiation of racial identity |
| | C) | assimilation |
| | D) | socialization of race |
| | E) | Despite that some statutes are contextual, they cannot be negotiated. |
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Social race differs from biological race in that |
| | A) | human biological races are real, while social races are not. |
| | B) | social race refers to meaningful genetic differences between human populations. |
| | C) | social race is a politically correct term for biological race. |
| | D) | social race is a cultural construction that is based on arbitrary distinctions. |
| | E) | There is no difference between social and biological race. |
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Which of the following statements regarding hypodescent is not true? |
| | A) | It automatically places the children of a union between members of different groups in the minority group. |
| | B) | It is how race is determined in the United States. |
| | C) | It divides American society into groups that have been unequal in their access to wealth, power, and prestige. |
| | D) | It has brought about the formation of intermediate racial categories. |
| | E) | It is rare outside the contemporary United States. |
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Which of the following statements regarding burakumin is true? |
| | A) | They are citizens of Brazil. |
| | B) | Their residences are dispersed in and among the residences of non-burakumin. |
| | C) | They typically perform manual labor to make a living. |
| | D) | They are physically and genetically different from the rest of the Japanese population. |
| | E) | Their status as outcasts originated just after World War II. |
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Compared to systems of racial classification in the United States and Japan, the Brazilian system of racial classification |
| | A) | uses fewer terms. |
| | B) | is considerably more fluid. |
| | C) | uses the hypodescent rule much more frequently. |
| | D) | is significantly less flexible. |
| | E) | is less effective. |
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What is discrimination? |
| | A) | The process of change in which a minority group is incorporated into the dominant culture to the point where it no longer exists as a separate cultural unit. |
| | B) | The devaluing of a group because of its assumed behavior, values, abilities, or attributes. |
| | C) | The belief that behavior and social organization are biologically determined. |
| | D) | The policies and practices that harm a group and its members. |
| | E) | The tendency to judge the behavior and beliefs of other cultures according to one's own culture. |
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De facto discrimination refers to |
| | A) | legally sanctioned discrimination. |
| | B) | the process of change in which a minority group is incorporated into the dominant culture to the point where it no longer exists as a separate cultural unit. |
| | C) | discrimination that is practiced but not legally sanctioned. |
| | D) | the combining of ethnic contrasts and economic interdependence of the ethnic groups. |
| | E) | the ideological justification for outsiders to guide native peoples in specific directions. |
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Which of the following statements regarding the Basques is not true? |
| | A) | The Basque homeland straddles the French-Spanish border. |
| | B) | Basque Americans have suffered from some discrimination. |
| | C) | The Basque language is unrelated to any other known language. |
| | D) | Some 50,000 Basques now live in the United States, where many work as sheep herders. |
| | E) | Basque culture was celebrated under the Franco dictatorship. |
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The political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time is known as |
| | A) | enculturation. |
| | B) | multiculturalism. |
| | C) | colonialism. |
| | D) | an imagined community. |
| | E) | plural society. |
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Which of the following statements regarding assimilation is not true? |
| | A) | Assimilation best describes the process by which immigrants are integrated into Brazilian society. |
| | B) | Like Brazil, the United States is an assimilationist society. |
| | C) | Assimilation is best represented by the "melting pot" model. |
| | D) | Assimilation involves minority groups giving up their old traditions and adopting the patterns and norms of the host country. |
| | E) | Assimilationist societies generally lack ethnic neighborhoods. |
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A plural society |
| | A) | combines ethnic contrasts and economic interdependence of the ethnic groups. |
| | B) | has many different official religions. |
| | C) | has many different official languages. |
| | D) | is a society that has been colonized by more than one colonial power. |
| | E) | is one in which ethnicities have been replaced by pluralities. |
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Which of the following statements about multiculturalism is not true? |
| | A) | Multiculturalism is best represented by the "melting pot" model. |
| | B) | Multiculturalism views cultural diversity as something desirable that is to be encouraged. |
| | C) | Multiculturalism encourages the practice of many ethnic traditions. |
| | D) | A multicultural society socializes individuals not only into the dominant culture but also into an ethnic culture. |
| | E) | Multiculturalism works best in a society whose political system promotes free expression and in which there are many diverse ethnic groups. |
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