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WorksheetsRace in Sociology
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 23mins
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 is NOT a characteristic of a minority group?
They have distinctive physical or cultural traits
Members of the group share a common sense of identity
The minority is controlled by the majority
Minorities get suppressed by the majority because certain minority traits are believed to be superior
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
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.
Which of the following are examples of discrimination?
Avoiding social contact with members of minority groups
Denying a person a position of authority based on their social status
Blocking a person's access to a more exclusive neighborhood
All of the Above
Which of the following would be a reason a hate crime takes place?
Members of a group get a sense of unity in having a common enemy
A belief that a victim is actually threatening a person's livelihood
Demeaning stereotypes can be used to justify violence
All of the Above
The dominant group will displace its unfocused aggression onto a subordinate group. Which theory suggests this?
Racial formation theory
Scapegoat theory
Colourism
Post racial dream theory
The action of treating people differently based on ethnicity, race, religion, or culture is:
prejudice
racism
discrimination
stereotype
