Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Exam 1
UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Troubles - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Personal issues
Issues - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Societal problems
Expressed race - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Race that one identifies with
Reflected race - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Race that one appears to be
Functionalist - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Focuses on purpose, structure, and solidarity
Conflict - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Highlights challenges and inequalities
Symbolic interactionism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Focuses on the meaning behind
interactions
The veil - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Prevents people from seeing beyond race
Sociologically constructed - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Race is determined by society and
varies by country
Multiculturalism strengths - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Celebrates white culture and
promotes education
Multiculturalism weaknesses - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Ignores minority cultures and
tokenizes them
, Race - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Refers to skin tone
Ethnicity - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Refers to cultural background
Optional ethnicity - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Ability to choose and define one's ethnicity
without discrimination
Characteristics of whiteness - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Colorblind, individualistic,
comfortable with current society
Native Americans unique because - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔First inhabitants, shortest
lifespan, interracial marriage, reservations
Hispanic/Latino creation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Top-down (government Census,
telemundo) and bottom-up (advocacy)
Oppression - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Day-to-day racism
Exclusion - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Leaving someone out (separate neighborhoods)
Expulsion - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Kicking someone out (Native American reservations)
Extermination - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Genocide (Holocaust)
Racial Schema - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The way a country thinks about race, can change
LatinX - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Age (18-29) and education (degree), English-speaking
as a child
Color Blindness strengths - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Goals are good, common sense
approach, encourages looking beyond race
UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Troubles - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Personal issues
Issues - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Societal problems
Expressed race - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Race that one identifies with
Reflected race - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Race that one appears to be
Functionalist - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Focuses on purpose, structure, and solidarity
Conflict - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Highlights challenges and inequalities
Symbolic interactionism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Focuses on the meaning behind
interactions
The veil - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Prevents people from seeing beyond race
Sociologically constructed - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Race is determined by society and
varies by country
Multiculturalism strengths - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Celebrates white culture and
promotes education
Multiculturalism weaknesses - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Ignores minority cultures and
tokenizes them
, Race - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Refers to skin tone
Ethnicity - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Refers to cultural background
Optional ethnicity - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Ability to choose and define one's ethnicity
without discrimination
Characteristics of whiteness - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Colorblind, individualistic,
comfortable with current society
Native Americans unique because - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔First inhabitants, shortest
lifespan, interracial marriage, reservations
Hispanic/Latino creation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Top-down (government Census,
telemundo) and bottom-up (advocacy)
Oppression - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Day-to-day racism
Exclusion - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Leaving someone out (separate neighborhoods)
Expulsion - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Kicking someone out (Native American reservations)
Extermination - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Genocide (Holocaust)
Racial Schema - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The way a country thinks about race, can change
LatinX - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Age (18-29) and education (degree), English-speaking
as a child
Color Blindness strengths - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Goals are good, common sense
approach, encourages looking beyond race
