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WorksheetsSocio-Cultural Perspectives Test 1
Total questions: 48
Worksheet time: 47mins
The body of literature which argues that "the school" as a social institution, is an apparatus of the state to socially reproduce the class structure of the society, to ensure that children from wealthy households are given further opportunities to advance while children from poor households are ratified in their poor status is based on_____________.
Functionalism
Conflict Theory
Feminist Theory
Critical Theory
Symbolic Interaction
The following are all examples of the term "institutions" as defined in sociology, EXCEPT
Religious Systems
The family
Religious Doctrines
The legal system
Gender
A body of literature detailing the complicated ways schools employ "patriarchal ideologies" to perpetuate the treatment of different genders in order to reproduce the dominant gender norms in the society is based on ____________.
Conflict Theory
Functionalism
Feminist Theory
Critical Theory
Symbolic Interaction
The idea that school systems (encodes) communicates its expectations to different groups of children even as children (decode) perform based on such expectations are properly theorized by __________________
Conflict Theory
Functionalism
Feminist Theory
Critical Theory
Symbolic Interaction
This social theory explains that "the school" as a social institution, is a state apparatus for sorting, assigning and distributing the roles of members of the society, to construct social order and maintain social stability in the society. It notes that schools use the merit system to determine how members fill the differentiated jobs.
Functionalism
Symbolic Interaction
Conflict Theory
Critical Theory
Feminist Theory
Which of the following explanations is NOT true about Social Mobility?
The upward movement of individuals within the established social structure
The downward movement of individuals within the established social structure
The upward or downward movement of individuals and groups within the established social structure
A system of channeling students to occupations
The process whereby cultural newcomers (for example immigrants) or those who are members of a minority groups learn the norms, mores and values of the dominant society as a result of cultural contacts is termed
Enculturation
Acculturation
Assimilation
Acclimatization
Deculturalization
The following are all unintended functions of schools EXCEPT
Inculturalization of dominant group's values
Custodial functions of school
Promoting loyalty and consensus in children
Promising the social mobility of the younger generation
The social theory explains that "the school" as a social institution, functions to play dialectical and paradoxical roles of empowering and dis-empowering diverse constituencies. And therefore, there is the need to develop critical consciousness to interrogate school practices.
Conflict Theory
Functionalism
Feminist Theory
Critical Theory
Symbolic Interaction
Which of the following is NOT an example of the intended functions of the school as an institution
Transmission of generalized and specialized knowledge
Cultural production or production of new knowledge
The legal responsibility to take care of children
Developing students' attitudes of resistance
The statement that "power is implicated in culture" could imply all of the following EXCEPT...
Dominant cultural values are viewed as the "normal"
The status culture is viewed as the lens through which all other cultures are assessed
Subordinated groups' values and traditions are viewed as "deviant"
Dominant groups are viewed as people without culture
Which of the following about "cultural hybridity" as a diversity and multicultural construct is true?
Hybridity is cultural mixtures and multi- layered forms of interactions between diverse people
Hybridity is cross- fertilization which entails the logic of mixture of multiple power relations
Hybridity entails multi- layered identity which is a product of multiple cultures and traditions
All of the statements
The following are all important elements of "culturally relevant teaching" EXCEPT _________
An understanding of the connection between culture and learning
An understanding that teachers practices reflect middle- class European American cultural values
An understanding of how deficit- based notions permeate traditional school thinking
An understanding that all teachers are equipped with knowledge and skills to promote diversity
All of the following statements are TRUE about high context cultures EXCEPT
High context cultures extract meaning in their daily lives
High context cultures include most indigenous Africans
High context cultures expect to be told everything in great details
The amount of stored information for high context cultures is more than that transmitted
The following statements about culture are all true EXCEPT?
Students' culture and identity may influence how they experience school.
Students from the same society and/ or race do not necessarily have the same culture.
Culture is destiny because it helps us to generalize the values and traditions of students
Culture is dynamic because it evolves overtime
Which of the following may reflect a "reductive notion of culture"?
Recognition of the existence of vast array of differences of a cultural group
Recognition of the heterogeneity of racial groups such as African Americans
Recognition of the heterogeneity of an ethnic group such as Hispanics
Views that hold the homogeneity of a particular racial or ethnic group
Which of the following may NOT necessarily be one of the most effective ways of providing meaningful knowledge and skills for teaching in today's cultural contexts?
Preparing preservice students to analyze the intersection of race, ethnicity and culture in learning.
Constructing pedagogical practices that are meaningful to individual learners in the classroom.
Implementation of culturally relevant pedagogy in schools and classroom
Attending a very expensive teacher preparation program
The statement that "teaching is not a neutral act" may be demonstrated by all the classroom practices EXCEPT
When teachers instill political consciousness in students
When teachers use their classroom to perpetuate the low status of subjugated groups.
When a teacher exercises the goal is to help all students to succeed
The understanding that teachers who stand in front of the class should be well groomed.
As a concept in diversity and multiculturalism, "interactive pluralism's major focus is the need for members in the society to...
Embrace some core mutual responsibilities to foster homogeneity
Create environment for intolerance because of the dangers of multiculturalism
Embrace some core values and cultural commitments to foster strong national culture.
Cultivate common understanding about the existence of distinct groups and cultures.
This multiculturalism concept emphasizes the recognition of diversity and pluralism should include economic inequality and redistribution of economic resources
Fragmented Pluralism
Critical Multiculturalism
Cosmopolitanism
Benign Multiculturalism
Assimilation
This multiculturalism concept emphasizes cultural homogeneity, conformity and the need to transform out- group members to in- group members and a "melting- pot" metaphor for instead of distinctive identities
Fragmented Pluralism
Assimilation
Interactive Pluralism
Cosmopolitanism
Contact Zones
This multicultural concept outlines that in order to understand ourselves, others, and the issues of diversity, we need to engage in self- reflection about the positions from which we speak and from which we view the world- that is to say we need to locate ourselves within a "geography of difference" in understanding race, gender, class and sexual performance.
Perspectivism
Standpoint epistemology
Contact zones
Intersectionality
Positionality
The theory critique's the claims to "objective knowledge" and "universality" of knowledge made primarily by the dominant group. It works with the assumption that "all knowing will substantively involve the social and historical context of particular knowers"
Positionality
Standpoint Theory
Contact Zones
Perspectivism
Assimilation
Social situations and spaces where diverse students express discomfort because of the interaction with course readings and discussions of race and racism and other power relations can be categorized as ___________
Positionality
Assimilation
Contact Zones
Standpoint Theory
Intersectionality
A multicultural concept which emphasizes market- based idea on diversity and voluntary celebration of identity expressed through choice and consumption
Decentered multiculturalism
Benign multiculturalism
Assimilation
Contact Zones
Boutique Multiculturalism
A multicultural framework that explains that we need to encourage, respect and validate all points of views and the need for dominant groups to stretch themselves to understand those whose voices have been fugitive.
Contact Zones
Standpoint Theory
Intersectionality
Positionality
Perspectivism
The theory outlines that groups, experiences, texts, cultures and identities cannot be understood in isolation but only in relation to other sociocultural variables
Contact Zones
Perspectivism
Standpoint Theory
Intersectionality
Positionality
Cosmopolitanism as a diversity and multicultural concept emphasizes that...
Members in the group must embrace some core mutual responsibilities
There is the need to create the environment for tolerance and individual choice instead of mutual obligation
Members in the group must embrace some core values and cultural commitments
Differences in societies are understood as something dangerous and should be minimized.
A multicultural concept that gives preference to social and cultural diversity but opposed to government policies designed to advance toward social and cultural diversity
Boutique multiculturalism
Benign multiculturalism
Fragmentation
Critical Multiculturalism
Contact Zones
Which of the following practices best describes the concept "discrimination"?
Jaime decided not to give Alicia a ride to Harrisburg because Alicia identifies as a lesbian.
David makes his mind not to invite any girl to his party because of their gender
The principal of East Side High decides not to hire Mr. Daquine because the students and other teachers will not be comfortable with his accent.
Dan refuses to eat in the cafeteria because the person serving the food has different sexual orientation
Which of the following would be the best example of "institutional racism"?
Alicia is not liked by most students in her school because of her ethnic group as a Latina.
The State decides to employ standardized test to determine children who get state funding for college
College K decides to use affirmative action to hire a lady faculty.
College K's use of affirmative action deprives Dr. Paulson of being hired because he is male.
The experience whereby a member of an oppressed group may internalize stereotypical categories about her or his own group to some degree is known as _____________
Racial formation
Internalized oppression
Subjugation
Prejudice
Which of the following is NOT a psychological effect of racism?
Jordan feels guilty and embarrassed whenever the professor discusses an incident of racism.
Ty, the only "student of color" experiences the pressure to overachieve in his class because of the stereotypes perpetrated about his race.
Julie always feels shy and put down because she is a victim of racism.
Dr. Mfum Mensah feels relieved because as a person of color, he does not have to discuss sexuality issues in his classes.
Historically, the construct 'race' which also became the basis of "racism" in America and other societies around the globe was socially constructed with the sole purpose to ___________
Promote economic interest for Europeans
Restrict non- europeans from becoming Christians
Elect leaders in the new free world
Restrict women's productive and reproductive rights
Which of the following is NOT an example of how "race" was socially constructed in the American society?
The one- drop rule for people having African descent to categorize blacks
The quantum- blood rule for Native Americans to categorize who needed to benefit from federal programs for American Indians
The late assimilation of some Europeans including Italians, Jews and Irish as "white"
Immigration laws to restrict Chinese, Japanese and Philippinos
Public policy and practices that strongly support the interests of "native- born" people over "foreign- born" people is termed as
Stereotype
Reification
Nativism
Assimilation
Which of the following will be an example of "cultural racism" in a college setting?
An institution's decision not to hire a minority group to the faculty position
A college's curriculum which is intentionally or unintentionally based on the visual images, cultural representations and the epistemologies of the dominant race
A religions institution decides to show the images of only the dominant sexual orientation
An institution decides to use only SAT to admit students and award scholarships
Which of the following best explains the concept "institutional discrimination"
How some social groups and individuals are deprived of the rights or opportunities because of the normal operations of institutions
An institutional process to benefit workers but not their spouses
Recruiting one outgroup member to be part of an organization while not supporting the person.
Positive discriminatory practices with strong support for outgroup members.
Which of the following might be the most effective approach for the encouraging adolescents of color's oppositional identity and academic achievement
Teachers and school authorities should let students of color to be who they are.
Expose young students of color to images of people of color's academic achievement in their early years.
Encourage students of color to attend schools predominantly populated by people of color.
Let students of color be taught by teachers of the same social group.
At what stage in William Cross Black Racial Identity Framework does the individual begin to grapple with what it means to be a member of a group targeted by racism.
Autonomy
Immersion/ Emersion
Internalization
Encounter
Diffuse
Janet Helm's White Identity Development Framework conceptualizes a stage in whites' racial identity development where there is awareness of racism and white privilege as a result of person encounter, and there is desire to take action, and an inner tension within the person, as the ____________ stage.
Encounter
Integration
Disintegration
Contact
Autonomy
James Marcia's framework of Identity Search Process conceptualizes a state in an individual's identity search process where she or he has had little exploration of a particular domain and no commitment to a particular identity, as the ____________________ state
Moratorium
Diffuse
Achieved
Foreclosed
Encounter
Helm's White Identity Development Framework conceptualizes a point in whites' racial identity development which culminates with a newly defined view of "whiteness" as part of personal identity, as the _____________ stage
autonomy
disintegration
reintegration
integration
immersion
William Cross' Black Adolescent Identity Development Framework conceptualizes a state in black young peoples' life where series of events force them to acknowledge the impact of racism, as the ______________________ state
Immersion
Pre- encounter
Internalization
Encounter
Autonomy
At what point in Helm's White Racial Identity Process does the previous feelings of guilt or denial may be transformed into fear and anger directed toward people of color?
Disintegration
Reintegration
Autonomy
Psuedo- Independent
Internalization
Which of the following is a best description of "red- neck" prejudice as explained by Brislin?
Blatant and aggressive denigration of the other group
Interacting freely with an outgroup member in some situation but not in other situation
Engaging in positive behavior toward the outgroup that is trivial while withholding more substantial and meaningful interaction.
Prejudment based on a logically flawed view of reality
Which of the following is an example of Cognitive Prejudice?
Prejudgment based on a logically flawed view of reality
Prejudgment based on morally flawed view
Engaging in positive behavior toward the outgroup that is trivial while withholding more substantial and meaningful interaction
A discomfort grounded on ignorance about the outgroup
At what stage in Janet Helm's White Racial Identity Development process does the individual's intellectual understanding of white privilege leads to the individual acquiring deepening awareness that leads to unlearning racism.
Autonomy
Immersion/ Emersion
Reintegration
Disintegration
Psuedo Independent
