Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Exam 1
PASSED Actual Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Assimilation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔process of minority group coming to resemble the
dominant group
Cultural Pluralism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Minority groups maintain their unique
culture while their values and practices are accepted by larger society, so long as they consist
with values and laws of the larger society
Ethnicity Paradigm of Race - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Approach to race that affords
primacy to cultural variables
Internal Colonialism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Oppression/subordination of one ethnic
group over another within the same country
Hegemony - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Political, economic, or military predominance or
control of a state or group of others
Black Panther Party - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Founded 1966 by Huey P. Newton &
Bobby Seale
The Young Lords - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Founded 1968 by Jose "Cha-Cha" Jimenez
American Indian Movement - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Founded 1968 by Denis Banks,
Clyde Bellecourt, Vernan Bellecourt, & Russell Means
Partido de la Raza Unida - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Founded 1970 by Jose Ángel
Gutiérrez & Mario Compean
Bootstrap model - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Ethnic groups bring different norms to bear on
common circumstances with consequent different levels of success
, Class Paradigm of Race - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Social divisions which assume a
distinctively racial or ethnic character can be attributed or explained principally by reference
to economic structures and processes
Market Relations Approach - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Deal with the social exchange of
resources such as labor and credit
Irrational Prejudice Model - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Suggests a segregated society liked
as "trading partners" but separated by white "distaste" for blacks, will be gradually integrated
by market pressures
Monopolistic Model - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A society structured in the interests of all
whites, who gain through a systematic transfer of resources from nonwhites in a wide variety
of fields
Disruptive State Interventionism Model - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Class/racial inequality
is generated by state action on behalf of some racially defined group (minimum wage,
affirmative action, labor laws)
13th Amendment - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Abolished slavery except for in prisons
14th Amendment - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Equal protection under the law, citizenship &
due process for freed slaves
15th Amendment - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Right to vote for black men
Stratification Theory - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Deal with the social distribution of
resources
William J. Wilson - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Declining Significance of Race, Culture of
Poverty
PASSED Actual Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Assimilation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔process of minority group coming to resemble the
dominant group
Cultural Pluralism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Minority groups maintain their unique
culture while their values and practices are accepted by larger society, so long as they consist
with values and laws of the larger society
Ethnicity Paradigm of Race - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Approach to race that affords
primacy to cultural variables
Internal Colonialism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Oppression/subordination of one ethnic
group over another within the same country
Hegemony - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Political, economic, or military predominance or
control of a state or group of others
Black Panther Party - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Founded 1966 by Huey P. Newton &
Bobby Seale
The Young Lords - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Founded 1968 by Jose "Cha-Cha" Jimenez
American Indian Movement - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Founded 1968 by Denis Banks,
Clyde Bellecourt, Vernan Bellecourt, & Russell Means
Partido de la Raza Unida - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Founded 1970 by Jose Ángel
Gutiérrez & Mario Compean
Bootstrap model - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Ethnic groups bring different norms to bear on
common circumstances with consequent different levels of success
, Class Paradigm of Race - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Social divisions which assume a
distinctively racial or ethnic character can be attributed or explained principally by reference
to economic structures and processes
Market Relations Approach - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Deal with the social exchange of
resources such as labor and credit
Irrational Prejudice Model - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Suggests a segregated society liked
as "trading partners" but separated by white "distaste" for blacks, will be gradually integrated
by market pressures
Monopolistic Model - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A society structured in the interests of all
whites, who gain through a systematic transfer of resources from nonwhites in a wide variety
of fields
Disruptive State Interventionism Model - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Class/racial inequality
is generated by state action on behalf of some racially defined group (minimum wage,
affirmative action, labor laws)
13th Amendment - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Abolished slavery except for in prisons
14th Amendment - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Equal protection under the law, citizenship &
due process for freed slaves
15th Amendment - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Right to vote for black men
Stratification Theory - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Deal with the social distribution of
resources
William J. Wilson - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Declining Significance of Race, Culture of
Poverty
