SOWK-250 TEST 2 WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS.

1.1: Weber recounts her experience as a tennis player. She concludes that her _____ was an obstacle Social Class 1.2: What are the benefits of studying race, class, gender and sexuality according to Weber? -We recognize that we have all contributed to the oppression of others. -We recognize that we have limiting views of ourselves. -We recognize that there is a cost in maintaining dominance. 1.3: Occupy social positions in which they gain knowledge of a dominant group without gaining the full power accorded to members of the group. "Outsiders within" 1.3: An individual's or group's social "place" in the race, class, gender, and sexuality hierarchies as well as other critical social hierarchies Social Location 1.3: Used by scholars to convey the complex dynamics of multiple identities and systems of inequality Intersectionality 1.3: When one group has historically gained power and control over valued assets of a society by exploiting the labor and lives of other group and using those assets to secure its position of power in the future. Oppression 1.3: Patterns of social relationships among people that are complex, pervasive, variable, persistent, severe, and power based; systems of privilege and oppression. Social System 1.3: The capacity to achieve one's aim despite resistance. Power 1.4: In the introduction, Weber explains that she will use the social institution of _________ as an example for a race, class, gender, and sexuality analysis. Education 1.5: True or False? Weber explains why she focuses on race, class, gender, and sexuality over other dimensions such as disability, religion, and nation including that they have had large-scale social movements. True 2.1: According to Weber, which of the following is NOT a premise of the American Dream? a. Equality of opportunity b. Reasonable anticipation of success c. Community responsibility for success d. Success as virtue c. Community responsibility for success 2.2: Which of the following comprises the paradox of the American Dream? a. social equality with economic equality b. social equality with economic inequality c. social inequality with economic equality d. social inequality with economic inequality b. social equality with economic inequality 2.3: True or False? Individual success stories obscure the "failures" of the vast majority. True 2.4: True or False? Weber uses the rest of chapter 7 to illustrate how education offers all Americans an equal opportunity, however many people do not have the motivation to take advantage of the opportunity. False 2.5: the practice of judging another culture using the standards of one's own ethnocentrism 2.5: judging a culture by its own cultural rules and values cultural relativism 2.5: culturally dominant belief in one's society hegemonic 2.5: a set of (not necessarily) earned rights or assets belonging to a certain status privilege 2.5: a negative attitude toward members of a group or social category prejudice 2.5: the unequal treatment of people determined by their membership of a group discrimination 2.6: True or False? Ore quotes Marilyn Frye who explains that we need to employ a micro- rather than a macro-perspective to see the birdcage that prevents the bird from flying. False 2.7: Which group receives the greatest tax breaks from the federal government? a. The top 1% b. The top 19% c. The middle 20% d. The lowest 20% a. The top 1% 2.8: True or False? According to article #18, Pyke's study of Korean American and Vietnamese American women found that a recurring and unprompted tendency to glorify Asian masculinity and denigrate White masculinity. False 2.9: Pyke also found that: a. Some of the participants would generalize the attributes of their father to the entire group of Asian men. b. The racialized assumption of dominant society teaches the oppressed shape how and what they see. c. The participants' accounts reproduce a belief in White supremacy. d. All of the above d. All of the above 4.1: True or False? In article #1, Omi and Winnat illustrate that race is biological. False 4.2: What is NOT true according to Omi & Winant? a. In the US, White has been viewed as a pure category. Any racial intermixture makes one nonwhite. b. Latin America has extremely rigid descent rules about racial identity. c. In British politics, "Black" refers to all nonwhites. d. Following Reconstruction in 1877, working class was defined as White. b. Latin America has extremely rigid descent rules about racial identity 4.3: True or False? In the 19th century, Southern Europeans, Irish, and Jews were considered White. False 4.4: True or False? Omi & Winant assert that race is a stable, centered complex of social meanings constantly withstanding political change. False 4.5: True or False? In article #2, Waters explains that ethnicity is optional for Whites because the degree of discrimination and social distance attached to specific European backgrounds has diminished over time. True 4.6: According to Waters... a. When children leave home, both the parents and children tend to simplify the children's ancestries. b. White Americans learn stories about how their ancestors triumphed over diversity through individual efforts. c. Blacks' experience of racism decreases upon their arrival on a college campus because they are among the educated. d. A and B d. A and B 4.7: Which is NOT true about ethnicity? a. Pluralism is dependent on the concept that all ethnicities mean the same thing. b. Asian ethnicity is highly symbolic because unlike Whites, Asians have the option of identifying with their ethnicity. c. The idea of being "American" is more of a political identity than an ethnic one. d. African Americans have been socially constrained to identify as Black only. b. Asian ethnicity is highly symbolic because unlike Whites, Asians have the option of identifying with their ethnicity.