Social Problems Unit 2 Review

Prejudice and discrimination directed against the elderly

• ageism

• life course

• gerontocracy

• age stratification

Any category of people, distinguished by physical or cultural traits that a society subjects to disadvantages

• minority group

• racism

• multiculturalism

• prejudice

The meaning a society attaches to being female or male

• sex

• sexism

• gender

• gender stratification

Any rigid and irrational generalization about an entire category of people

• race

• ethnicity

• prejudice

• racism

Policies intended to improve the social standing of minorities because of historical prejudice and discrimination

• multicultrualism

• affirmative action

• racism

• ethnic stratification

A social construction in which people are divided into groups loosely based on physical characteristics that has no biological or genetic basis.

• multiculturalism

• prejudice

• race

• ethnicity

The biological distinction between females and males

• gender

• gender stratification

• sex

• sexism

Set of cultural characteristics that distinguish one group from another

• race

• ethnicity

• multicultrualism

• prejudice

A social system that gives a society’s oldest members the most wealth,

power, and prestige

• age stratification

• ageism

• gerontocracy

• multiculturalism

Assimilation is the process by which minorities gradually adopt the cultural patterns of the majority

population.

• True

• False