Sociology of The Family Chapter 3

Which physical characteristic is considered an important biological adaptation?

• skin color

• facial shape

• hair type

• hair color

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, why does that agency attempt to measure and collect information about racial categories?

• a. to attempt to define race biologically

• a. to attempt to define race anthropologically

• a. to chart genetic predispositions to certain diseases

• a. to reflect the social definitions of race

One important modern principle used in almost all data collection about race and ethnicity involves

• genetic testing.

• social media

• requiring

• self-identification.

Historically, according to the “one-drop” rule of racial identification

• an Asian woman could give birth to a Hispanic child, but a Hispanic woman couldn’t give birth to an Asian child

• a Hispanic woman could give birth to an Asian child, but an Asian woman couldn’t give birth to a Hispanic child.

• a Black woman could give birth to a White child, but a White woman couldn’t give birth to a Black child

• a White woman could give birth to a Black child, but a Black woman couldn’t give birth to a White child.

A race is a group of people believed to share common descent, based on .

• perceived innate physical similarities

• shared biology

• collective cultural practices

• marriage

An ethnicity is a group of people with

• shared wealth and land.

• shared wealth and land

• a common skin color.

• a common cultural identification.

An ethnic group perceived to share physical characteristics is called a(n)

• racial ethnicity

• race

• endogamy

• minority group

Marriage and reproduction within one’s own distinct group is called ; marriage and reproduction outside one’s distinct group is called .

• familism; acculturation

• endogamy; exogamy

• nuclear; mixed

• exogamy; endogamy

Which of the following is an example of exogamy?

• a White man marrying another White man

• a Mexican man divorcing his Puerto Rican wife

• a White polygamous man marrying multiple White women

• an Asian man marrying an African American woman

The rapid growth of the American Indian population over the last century—and the last 50 years in particular—is mostly due to

• the population’s improved economic conditions after being paid for the use of their ancestral homelands.

• the immigration of American Indians from reservations to large cities.

• a greater desire, or willingness, of those with mixed ancestry to identify as American Indian.

• American Indians recently engaging in endogamy.