Sociology - Race and Ethnicity

What is a stereotype?

• An overly simple, unfair and untrue belief about a group of people

• Gender expression refers to how a person shows their gender to the world.

• An attitude or belief in a stereotype that affects our understanding, actions, and decisions towards others.

What is bias?

• An attitude or belief in a stereotype that affects our understanding, actions, and decisions towards others.

• An overly simple, unfair and untrue belief about a group of people

• Understanding that identities can overlap and affect each other.

Which of the following best describes the symbolic interactionist view of prejudice?

• Prejudice allows people’s self-concept to be strengthened because they believe they are superior to others.
• Children are taught to be prejudiced by watching the behavior of significant others who express prejudices
• Prejudice strengthens society both economically and culturally.
•  Prejudice only becomes a problem in society when it is institutionalized.

The blending or fusing of the minority groups into the dominant society is known as...

• Assimilation

• Cultural Transfusion

• Cultural Pluralism

• None of the Above

This type of segregation takes places because of laws

• De Jure Segregation

• De Facto Segregation

Widely held preconceptions of a group (minority or majority) and its individual members

• Discrimination

• Prejudice

• Genocide

• Hate Crimes

Which of the following is part of the definition of an ethnic minority?

• skin color
• birthplace
• schoolinig
• language

 Historically, many African Americans in southern states were denied the right to vote by government offi cials who treated them diff erently from whites; for example, by requiring them to pass complex exams to be able to vote. This is an example of

• institutionalized discrimination.
• genocide
• ethnocentrism
• a self-fulfilling prophecy

Asian Americans deal with being the "model minority" or also called...

• Being perfect in everything

• Being perfect in just school

• Being perfect in language translation

• Being perfect for nothing

In 1994, people of the Hutu ethnicity in Rwanda killed thousands of ethnic Tutsi Rwandans in an attempt to make Rwanda 100% Hutu. This is an example of...

• genocide.

• population transfer.

• de facto subjugation.

• Anglo-conformity.