PBSI 208 - Exam 3 TAMU questions
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the caste system is so deeply ingrained in American society that it reaches far into the: - correct
answer ✔✔political, social, economic, and cultural aspects of everyday American life
Wilkerson notes that since the 1970s: - correct answer ✔✔white men have believed themselves
to occupy a more precarious position, and they have fallen back on racism to explain their new
circumstances and increasingly turned away from the democratic party
black people are threatened with police violence when they appear in settings or spaces where:
- correct answer ✔✔white people do not believe they belong
dominant group status threat - correct answer ✔✔sensing the success of an outgroup, the
dominant group begins to feel threatened and indeed despairing. in conditions of rapid
demographic or cultural change, previously dominant social groups often experience a "fear of
falling"
social status and treatment are not the only factors of a person's life affected by the caste
system, even the physical aspects such as: - correct answer ✔✔physical health and lifespan are
also affected
wilkerson describes a demographic study from 2015 detailing: - correct answer ✔✔rising death
rates among middle-aged white men at a time when death rates among all other demographics
were going down
white americans are afflicted by the so-called "___", which are: - correct answer ✔✔"deaths of
despair", which are deaths brought about by suicide, drug overdose, or alcohol abuse
,the cause of these kinds of deaths are attributable to instances when: - correct answer
✔✔members of the "superior caste" lose their supreme status in society through varying means
these kind of demographic changes can cause insecurity in the dominant caste: - correct answer
✔✔born of a sense that the outgroup is doing too well and therefore is a viable threat to one's
own dominant group status
according to a university of pennsylvania political scientist, "unlike the usual social prejudice
faced by black americans daily, another kind of prejudice that blacks experience is born from
the: - correct answer ✔✔perception of whites where the "outgroup" (blacks) are doing too well
- better than the whites
this sense of despair is how white americans who have largely relied on their own skin color to
feel better about themselves compared to others start to feel: - correct answer ✔✔disillusioned
about society and their overall place in the hierarchy
working-class whites, who had always depended on the racial hierarchy to confirm their
superiority, found themselves: - correct answer ✔✔in a more economically precarious position
as union labor declined and wages stagnated beginning in the 1970s
this insecurity reached its peak in 2008, as: - correct answer ✔✔white americans grappled with
the economic recession at a time when one man from the lower caste was rising to the highest
station in the land
poor white americans had: - correct answer ✔✔nothing to hold onto but their complexion, as a
sort of consolation that at the very least, they were born into a higher caste
when african americans start asserting their rights and independence: - correct answer ✔✔the
members of the upper caste cannot help but feel threatened and demoted
, since the 1970s: - correct answer ✔✔there has been economic stagnation, loss of
manufacturing industry/factory jobs, increase in political clout of women and minorities,
affirmative action, and an increase in black and gender upward mobility
in the US, some aspects of the favored status of upper caste people were created by policy,
however the government's role has in some ways remained: - correct answer ✔✔invisible and
has left distortions as to how each group got to where they are, allowing resentments and
rivalries to fester
wilkerson notes that many may not have realized that the new deal reforms of the 1930s: -
correct answer ✔✔largely excluded the vast majority of black domestic workers and farm
laborers at the urging of southern white politicians
homeownership was also racialized as lenders: - correct answer ✔✔denied federally financed
mortgages to african americans based on the demographic geography of neighborhoods
the result, wilkerson notes, was a: - correct answer ✔✔lasting advantage for white americans
that created profound wealth disparities, which the dominant culture attributes to inherent
characteristics of african americans rather than to policy
another reinforcement mechanism for these systems is unconscious bias which: - correct
answer ✔✔constitutes discriminatory behaviors practiced unknowingly or subconsciously by
people who have expressed belief in inequality which also plays a big part in the system
unconscious bias refers to the: - correct answer ✔✔unintentional and automatic attitudes,
beliefs, and stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions toward people of
different ethnicities, genders, or social groups
unconscious bias is also known as: - correct answer ✔✔implicit bias
with verified answers graded A+
the caste system is so deeply ingrained in American society that it reaches far into the: - correct
answer ✔✔political, social, economic, and cultural aspects of everyday American life
Wilkerson notes that since the 1970s: - correct answer ✔✔white men have believed themselves
to occupy a more precarious position, and they have fallen back on racism to explain their new
circumstances and increasingly turned away from the democratic party
black people are threatened with police violence when they appear in settings or spaces where:
- correct answer ✔✔white people do not believe they belong
dominant group status threat - correct answer ✔✔sensing the success of an outgroup, the
dominant group begins to feel threatened and indeed despairing. in conditions of rapid
demographic or cultural change, previously dominant social groups often experience a "fear of
falling"
social status and treatment are not the only factors of a person's life affected by the caste
system, even the physical aspects such as: - correct answer ✔✔physical health and lifespan are
also affected
wilkerson describes a demographic study from 2015 detailing: - correct answer ✔✔rising death
rates among middle-aged white men at a time when death rates among all other demographics
were going down
white americans are afflicted by the so-called "___", which are: - correct answer ✔✔"deaths of
despair", which are deaths brought about by suicide, drug overdose, or alcohol abuse
,the cause of these kinds of deaths are attributable to instances when: - correct answer
✔✔members of the "superior caste" lose their supreme status in society through varying means
these kind of demographic changes can cause insecurity in the dominant caste: - correct answer
✔✔born of a sense that the outgroup is doing too well and therefore is a viable threat to one's
own dominant group status
according to a university of pennsylvania political scientist, "unlike the usual social prejudice
faced by black americans daily, another kind of prejudice that blacks experience is born from
the: - correct answer ✔✔perception of whites where the "outgroup" (blacks) are doing too well
- better than the whites
this sense of despair is how white americans who have largely relied on their own skin color to
feel better about themselves compared to others start to feel: - correct answer ✔✔disillusioned
about society and their overall place in the hierarchy
working-class whites, who had always depended on the racial hierarchy to confirm their
superiority, found themselves: - correct answer ✔✔in a more economically precarious position
as union labor declined and wages stagnated beginning in the 1970s
this insecurity reached its peak in 2008, as: - correct answer ✔✔white americans grappled with
the economic recession at a time when one man from the lower caste was rising to the highest
station in the land
poor white americans had: - correct answer ✔✔nothing to hold onto but their complexion, as a
sort of consolation that at the very least, they were born into a higher caste
when african americans start asserting their rights and independence: - correct answer ✔✔the
members of the upper caste cannot help but feel threatened and demoted
, since the 1970s: - correct answer ✔✔there has been economic stagnation, loss of
manufacturing industry/factory jobs, increase in political clout of women and minorities,
affirmative action, and an increase in black and gender upward mobility
in the US, some aspects of the favored status of upper caste people were created by policy,
however the government's role has in some ways remained: - correct answer ✔✔invisible and
has left distortions as to how each group got to where they are, allowing resentments and
rivalries to fester
wilkerson notes that many may not have realized that the new deal reforms of the 1930s: -
correct answer ✔✔largely excluded the vast majority of black domestic workers and farm
laborers at the urging of southern white politicians
homeownership was also racialized as lenders: - correct answer ✔✔denied federally financed
mortgages to african americans based on the demographic geography of neighborhoods
the result, wilkerson notes, was a: - correct answer ✔✔lasting advantage for white americans
that created profound wealth disparities, which the dominant culture attributes to inherent
characteristics of african americans rather than to policy
another reinforcement mechanism for these systems is unconscious bias which: - correct
answer ✔✔constitutes discriminatory behaviors practiced unknowingly or subconsciously by
people who have expressed belief in inequality which also plays a big part in the system
unconscious bias refers to the: - correct answer ✔✔unintentional and automatic attitudes,
beliefs, and stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions toward people of
different ethnicities, genders, or social groups
unconscious bias is also known as: - correct answer ✔✔implicit bias
