SYG 2000 EXAM 4 QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026

SYG 2000 EXAM 4 QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026 _____ resent being unilaterally categorized as African-Americans because each of these immigrant groups enjoys a unique history, culture, and language that don't correspond to the American stereotypes of black skin - Answers Afro-Carribeans Afro-Carribeans would rather not ____ and remain in their instinctive immigrant status - Answers assimilate what is code switching? - Answers constructing a front stage of acceptance often using stereotypes to one's advantage to "play the part" in the presence of a dominant group while presenting a different self among similar peers/ other minorities what is discrimination? - Answers the unfavorable, unjust treatment of minorities from the negative stereotypes associated with prejudice what is ethnicity? - Answers an identity based on cultural characteristics such as language, religion, traditions or cultural practives true or false: ethnic groups may define themselves - Answers true what are eugenics? - Answers the pseudoscience of genetic lines and the inheritable traits they pass on from generation to generation what do people who study eugenics believe? - Answers the human population could be improved genetically through scientific manipulation what is the hypodescent rule? - Answers "one drop" rule true or false: in many Caribbean and Latin American countries, especially Brazil, race is a matter of gradations between black and while, with indigenous decent and social status factored in as well. - Answers true what is prejudice? - Answers thoughts or feelings about an ethnic or racial group (whereas discrimination is an act) what is race? - Answers a group of people who share a set of characteristics (typically physical ones) and are said to share a common bloodline what is racialization? - Answers the formation of a new racial identity by drawing ideological boundaries of differences around a formerly unnoticed group of people what is racism? - Answers the belief that members of separate races passes different and unequal traits coupled with the races possess different and unequal traits coupled with the power to restrict freedom based on those differences what is social Darwinism? - Answers the idea that racial differences were the result of evolutionary differences among the races/ one race was better off and one was worse off because of evolutionary circumstances social Darwinists believe that society shouldnt try to interfere the process of _________ - Answers survival of the fittest what is a stereotype? - Answers a generalization about an entire category of people that is thought to apply to everyone in that category what are some practices that manufactured the black ghetto? - Answers - whites signed secret agreements promising to not allow blacks into their neighborhoods - institutionalized housing discrimination - white flight what are the ways that people attempt to assimilate? - Answers - differences in contact with the minority group - migration patterns - demographics (ex mortality rates) -power differentials between groups - linguistic assimilation true or false: variation within racial categories is often as great as, or greater than, variation between racial categories - Answers true what was the IQ test created for? - Answers to differentiate among races; demonstrate racial superiority and inferiority what is the majority-minority population? - Answers where more than 50% of the population is part of a minority group when the 2004 General Social Survey asked why, on average, African-Americans have worse jobs, income, etc than white people, a whopping _____% of respondents believed that blacks are worse off because they "just don't have the motivation or will power to pull themselves up out of poverty." - Answers 49.7 when the 2004 General Social Survey asked why, on average, African-Americans have worse jobs, income, etc than white people, ______% of respondents said that blacks "have less in-born ability to learn." - Answers 9