WorksheetsDiversity & Discrimination
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
Discrimination is when you treat someone (a) respect.
Which of the following is not a protected characteristic as listed under the Equality Act 2010?
Age
Sex
Religion or Belief
Culture
Which discrimination type is this?
"Someone is not offered a promotion because they're a woman and the job goes to a less qualified man."
Direct
Indirect
Harassment
Victimisation
Which discrimination type is this?
"a minimum height requirement for a job where height is not relevant to carry out the role."
Direct
Indirect
Harassment
Victimisation
Which discrimination type is this?
"Behavior that creates an intimidating and offensive work environment for the victim."
Direct
Indirect
Harassment
Victimisation
Which discrimination type is this?
"A tutor shouts at a student because he thinks she intends to support another student's sexual harassment claim."
Direct
Indirect
Harassment
Victimisation
How could you stop discrimination in your community?
Ignore it
Accept it
Challenge it
Support it
A voter will not vote for a politician because he is old and all older people are slower and less competent. How could this voter’s actions be categorized?
The voter’s actions are ageism or prejudice and discrimination against a person based on age.
The voter’s actions are ageism or false stereotypes about a person based on age.
The voter’s actions are ageism or prejudice against a person based on age.
The voter’s actions are ageism or thoughts and beliefs about a person based on age.
Racial steering occurs when prospective homeowners are shown available homes only in certain neighborhoods. Which example would describe the beliefs and actions of a real estate agent, who is an unprejudiced discriminator?
The agent is tolerant and accepting, but purposely shows houses in a certain part of the city to Asian immigrants.
The agent believes in accepting people as individuals, but shows African-Americans only certain areas without conscious discrimination.
The agent believes that people from the Middle East are suspicious and does not show anyone of Middle-Eastern decent homes in neighborhoods with low crime.
The agent is not tolerant; however, she shows clients every house that is within the client’s price range.
A legislator in the United States believes that all illegal aliens from Mexico are criminals and social pariahs. Which term correctly identifies the beliefs of the legislator?
The legislator is discriminating against illegal aliens.
The legislator is prejudiced against illegal aliens.
The legislator believes illegal aliens should be assimilated into the dominant culture.
The legislator believes the United States should be pluralistic.
When the Hutus began attacking the Tutsis during the Rwandan Genocide, a radio station began broadcasting racist propaganda, which described the Tutsis as cockroaches and calling for their extermination. What is the term used by Erik Erikson to describe this characterization of the Tutsis?
Pseudo-kinship
Pseudospeciation
Tragedy of commons
Reciprocal determinism
How would a social scientist phrase the just-world hypothesis as a phenomenon of social exchange theory?
The world institutions have created a structure that does not allow minority groups to succeed due to institutional discrimination.
Success is dependent on the motivation to maximize one’s own status in society through proper analysis of costs and benefits of a decision.
It is a brute fact that certain types of people will succeed while other types of people will fail.
The conflicts over access to resources in society causes people who work hard to achieve success and people who are unmotivated to lose access to resources and enter poverty.
Which of these is NOT a trait of a minority (subordinate) group?
Represent a small percentage of the population
Involuntary membership in the group
Awareness of unequal treatment of the group
Treatment distinguished by physical or cultural traits
Which of these scenarios describes how the bystander effect can affect a school’s attempts to combat bullying?
A close friend, who witnessed the bullying, did not intervene but contacted the administration after the incident.
A child witnesses bullying; however, the child does not intervene to stop the bullying, nor does the child come forward to report the incident.
A close friend of a child that is being bullied hears about the incident and reports it to the school administration.
A child witnesses bullying, makes a decision based on responses learned in class regarding not being a bystander and aids the child who is being bullied.
How does stereotype threat become a self-fulfilling prophecy?
A football kicker is ‘iced’ before the game winning kick and subsequently misses the field goal.
A Caucasian man is told that white people are slow before a race. He runs hard and gets a new personal best.
A young man on his way to the SATs is told that because he is poor, he is stupid. He does very poorly on the test.
A child is exposed to positive stereotypes about women and math before a test. Due to this exposure, the child performs better than expected.
