SOWK 250 TEST REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2023.

According to article #6, Media Magic, the poor are _____________. Eyesore T or F: Media seeks to have its audience identify with the poor. False T or F: The news media inverts reality so that those who are working class and middle class learn to fear, resent, and blame those below, rather than those above them in the class structure. True T or F: In article #20, The Return of "Separate but Equal", poor people of color are especially likely to wind up in schools filled with others like them because while low-income Whites often live in middle-class neighborhoods, low-income Blacks and Latinos rarely do. True T or F: One of the most consistent findings in education is that poor kids of all races do better in a middle-class environment. True What is the main predictor of how involved a parent will be in their child's education? social class (aka socioeconomic status) T or F: In article # 50 Nickel-and-Dimed Ehrenreich sought to determine whether work will lift poor women out of poverty while simultaneously inflating their self-esteem. True T or F: Housing is the principal source of disruption i True T or F: Ehrenreich was able to support welfare-to-work reform when her experiment demonstrated that minimum wage work can meet citizens' basic needs as long as they are smart about how they spend their money. False Classism is... a system of beliefs rooted in the institutions of society where the wealthy are privileged with a higher status at the expense of the oppression of the poor. Correct Omi and Winant illustrate that race is biological False What is NOT true according to Omi & Winant? Latin America has extremely rigid descent rules about racial identity. T or F: In the 19th century, Southern Europeans, Irish, and Jews were considered White. False T or F: Omi & Winant assert that race is a stable, centered complex of social meanings constantly withstanding political change. False T or F: In #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 T or F: Parents simplify children's ancestries when reporting them to the census and White Americans learn stories about how their ancestors triumphed over adversity through individual efforts. True What is TRUE in regards to institutional responses about racism? Pluralism does not do well when power relations and externalities are ignored. On college campuses in the 1990s, tensions between students arise from honest misunderstandings. It is hard for White college students to understand the need that minority students feel to band together against discrimination. According Brodkin, the author of PDF, How Did Jews Become White Folks?, Jews increased in their class standing due to... decline of systematic, public anti-Euro and anti-Semitism and government affirmative action extended to white males Brodkin explains that affirmative action took the form of the GI bill and took the form of FHA racial practices. T or F: Brodkin believes that Jews needed federal programs to create the conditions necessary to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps." True T or F: According to Shapiro in article #5, unlike education, jobs, or even income, wealth allows families to secure advantages and often is the vehicle for transferring inequality across generations. True T or F: While the income, educational achievement, and employment gaps among Hispanics, African-Americans and Whites remain steady or show some slight narrowing, the wealth gap increases. True What is NOT true in regards to home ownership? Blacks have about a 20% higher rejection rate than Whites even when White and Black families are equally creditworthy. T or F: Shapiro notes that homeownership (or renting) locates a family in a set of community services, contexts, and relationships, and partially defines race and class identities. True T or F: Ellis Cose in article #44, attempts to describe some of the coping situations that add unhealthy stress for people of color in professional positions in America. True Exclusion from Country Clubs a financial cost of exclusion because White people had access to a golf club where they could entertain clients, whereas Black people had less quality options and perpetuated inequality because his not being a member disadvantaged his son from also being a member. T or F: In his exploration of the demon: presumption of failure, Cose explains that failure at the highest levels of the New York Times was reserved for Blacks. False Cose reviews the experiences of educated, professional Blacks concluding that race was: a handicap. Success required working to be perceived as better than other Blacks. T or F: Many Blacks do not speak out when racially sensitive issues are raises to avoid being categorized as a race-obsessed troublemakers. True T or F: Cose finds that members of the law-abiding black middle class are able to successfully avoid being stereotyped with street-crime stereotype False T or F: In article #9, Judith Lorber, explains that for the individual, gender construction starts with assignment to a sex category on the basis of what genitalia look like at birth. True Lorber believes that gender is not necessarily biological but socially constructed through: informal sanctions by peers, formal punishment by those in authority, and social institutions such a religion, law, and science. Lorber explains that gender is a system of stratification evidenced by the fact that: women's activities are devalued preserving a cheap and exploitable reserve of labor and in poorer groups with fewer resources, men and women are nearly equal T or F: As a structure, gender divides work in the home and in economic production, legitimates those in authority, and organizes sexuality and emotional life. True T or F: A person must undergo surgery and take hormone treatments to change their sex in order to be considered transsexual False T or F: We are most likely to notice someone's gender expression opposed to their sex and gender identity. True T or F: There is no major consensus on the number of transgender people in the U.S. or in the world today; however, without statistics, the population remains invisible. True Bisexual Person is attracted to men and women Pansexual Person is attracted to any and all genders. Asexual Person does not experience romantic attraction to other people at all Queer Catch all word for those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning their sexuality, or do not fit into the heterosexual or male/female binary worlds. When it comes to sexism, In article #22, we learn that in schools: Teachers are stunned to see themselves teaching subtle gender lessons when watching videotapes of their classrooms.