SOC Exam #3 UMD with All Correct & 100% Verified
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Race ✔Correct Answer---constructed upon arbitrary phenotypical differences that often impact
individuals' lives
-differs across time and space
The Racial Bio-Essentialist Approach ✔Correct Answer---assumes racial categories are authentic,
real, and natural
-ignores that genetics and conceptions of race are not fully squared
Johann Blumenbach and "Craniometrics" ✔Correct Answer--•Correlating skull shape with skin
pigmentation
•Five races
-Caucasian - "white"
-Mongoloid - "Yellow"
-Malayan - "Brown"
-Ethiopian - "Black"
-American - "Red"
USA (one drop rule) ✔Correct Answer--•Individual could not be considered white and enjoy
privileges of whiteness if they had any "non-white" blood in them
South Africa (Apartheid) ✔Correct Answer--•Separation of races with immense inequality between
races. Unlike one-drop rule, individuals could legitimately belong to dominant—white—racial group
if they either 1) just "looked" white-ish enough and/or 2) possessed wealth and power
Brazil ✔Correct Answer--40-50 different racial categories are recognized that hold life implications
for those in them. Some "colorism"—hierarchy based upon skin tone on a continuum from white to
black—retained. However, racial hierarchy mostly based upon wealth and prestige
Miscegenation ✔Correct Answer--the interbreeding of people considered to be of different racial
types
Racialization ✔Correct Answer--the process where racial groups are created based upon a small
handful of arbitrary biological attributes that ultimately support the illusion that the created racial
categories are authentic and real
Racialism ✔Correct Answer--•an individual or a society sees individuals as belonging to particular
racial categories
-Specific form of "Social differentiation"
Racism ✔Correct Answer--arbitrarily perceiving one racial category as being superior to another
Prejudice ✔Correct Answer--A negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often an
ethnic or racial minority (Attitude!)
, Discrimination ✔Correct Answer--unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members
(Behavior!)
Institutional Racism ✔Correct Answer--racist practices become part of the social practices and
institutions of society
Post-civil rights racism (Convert) ✔Correct Answer--prejudice and discrimination so normalized and
routinized they are institutionalized
Minority Category ✔Correct Answer--1) Share a distinct identity
2) The whole experience subordination
Bonilla-Silva's colorblind ideology ✔Correct Answer--attempts to describe post-civil rights racial
condition
Abstract Liberalism (Bonilla-Silva) ✔Correct Answer--· Rationalizes racial outcomes by assuming
equal opportunity
· Merit belief that most meritorious are rewarded
· Opposing to government intrusion (Laissez-faire)
Naturalization (Bonilla-Silva) ✔Correct Answer--· Naturalization is a frame that suggests that racial
phenomenon is a natural occurrence. Although the idea that people prefer people like themselves
might be thought of as racist it is used to support colorblindness by suggesting that all people do it,
including minorities. Thus, segregation is natural or self-selecting.
Cultural Racism (Bonilla-Silva) ✔Correct Answer--· Blacks don't value education or that Latinos
have too many babies, etc.
· No longer biological racism, but lack of hygiene, family disorganization, or lack of morality have
replaced it.
Minimization (Bonilla-Silva) ✔Correct Answer--· Suggests discrimination is no longer a central
factor affecting minorities life changes.
· Even whites acknowledge that discrimination exists, but they deny its impact on group standing.
Double Consciousness ✔Correct Answer--•the knowledge oppressed groups gain from their lived
experience diverges from how the dominant group assumes things are
•subordinate groups must understand BOTH their own knowledge and that of the dominant culture's
knowledge to survive
Pluralism ✔Correct Answer--separate racial and ethnic groups maintain their distinctiveness even
through they are perceived as being on equal footing
Segregation ✔Correct Answer--physical and social separation of categories of people
Genocide ✔Correct Answer--process by which one ethnic or racial group exterminates another
group
Assimilation ✔Correct Answer--process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the
dominant culture and become like the dominant
Answers| Actual Complete Exam| Already Graded A+
(Just Released)
Race ✔Correct Answer---constructed upon arbitrary phenotypical differences that often impact
individuals' lives
-differs across time and space
The Racial Bio-Essentialist Approach ✔Correct Answer---assumes racial categories are authentic,
real, and natural
-ignores that genetics and conceptions of race are not fully squared
Johann Blumenbach and "Craniometrics" ✔Correct Answer--•Correlating skull shape with skin
pigmentation
•Five races
-Caucasian - "white"
-Mongoloid - "Yellow"
-Malayan - "Brown"
-Ethiopian - "Black"
-American - "Red"
USA (one drop rule) ✔Correct Answer--•Individual could not be considered white and enjoy
privileges of whiteness if they had any "non-white" blood in them
South Africa (Apartheid) ✔Correct Answer--•Separation of races with immense inequality between
races. Unlike one-drop rule, individuals could legitimately belong to dominant—white—racial group
if they either 1) just "looked" white-ish enough and/or 2) possessed wealth and power
Brazil ✔Correct Answer--40-50 different racial categories are recognized that hold life implications
for those in them. Some "colorism"—hierarchy based upon skin tone on a continuum from white to
black—retained. However, racial hierarchy mostly based upon wealth and prestige
Miscegenation ✔Correct Answer--the interbreeding of people considered to be of different racial
types
Racialization ✔Correct Answer--the process where racial groups are created based upon a small
handful of arbitrary biological attributes that ultimately support the illusion that the created racial
categories are authentic and real
Racialism ✔Correct Answer--•an individual or a society sees individuals as belonging to particular
racial categories
-Specific form of "Social differentiation"
Racism ✔Correct Answer--arbitrarily perceiving one racial category as being superior to another
Prejudice ✔Correct Answer--A negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often an
ethnic or racial minority (Attitude!)
, Discrimination ✔Correct Answer--unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members
(Behavior!)
Institutional Racism ✔Correct Answer--racist practices become part of the social practices and
institutions of society
Post-civil rights racism (Convert) ✔Correct Answer--prejudice and discrimination so normalized and
routinized they are institutionalized
Minority Category ✔Correct Answer--1) Share a distinct identity
2) The whole experience subordination
Bonilla-Silva's colorblind ideology ✔Correct Answer--attempts to describe post-civil rights racial
condition
Abstract Liberalism (Bonilla-Silva) ✔Correct Answer--· Rationalizes racial outcomes by assuming
equal opportunity
· Merit belief that most meritorious are rewarded
· Opposing to government intrusion (Laissez-faire)
Naturalization (Bonilla-Silva) ✔Correct Answer--· Naturalization is a frame that suggests that racial
phenomenon is a natural occurrence. Although the idea that people prefer people like themselves
might be thought of as racist it is used to support colorblindness by suggesting that all people do it,
including minorities. Thus, segregation is natural or self-selecting.
Cultural Racism (Bonilla-Silva) ✔Correct Answer--· Blacks don't value education or that Latinos
have too many babies, etc.
· No longer biological racism, but lack of hygiene, family disorganization, or lack of morality have
replaced it.
Minimization (Bonilla-Silva) ✔Correct Answer--· Suggests discrimination is no longer a central
factor affecting minorities life changes.
· Even whites acknowledge that discrimination exists, but they deny its impact on group standing.
Double Consciousness ✔Correct Answer--•the knowledge oppressed groups gain from their lived
experience diverges from how the dominant group assumes things are
•subordinate groups must understand BOTH their own knowledge and that of the dominant culture's
knowledge to survive
Pluralism ✔Correct Answer--separate racial and ethnic groups maintain their distinctiveness even
through they are perceived as being on equal footing
Segregation ✔Correct Answer--physical and social separation of categories of people
Genocide ✔Correct Answer--process by which one ethnic or racial group exterminates another
group
Assimilation ✔Correct Answer--process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the
dominant culture and become like the dominant
