SOCIOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS And CORRECT
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19. _____ is person-to-person or face-to-face discrimination.
A. Institutional discrimination
B. Individual discrimination
C. Racism
D. Prejudice - CORRECT ANSWERS B. Individual discrimination
5. The annihilation or attempted annihilation of a people because of their presumed race or
ethnicity is known as_________.
a. genocide
b. racial superiority
c. racial purification
d. ethnic work - CORRECT ANSWERS a. genocide
20. Built into society's institutions, _____ is negative treatment of a minority group.
A.institutional prejudice
B.unintentional discrimination
C. institutional discrimination
D. contact theory - CORRECT ANSWERS C. institutional discrimination
10. Julio had a strong sense of ethnic identity. Our ethnic identity is _____ by our group having
smaller numbers in a society and being the object of discrimination.
, A. somewhat lessened
B. heightened
C. unaffected
D. pretty well eliminated - CORRECT ANSWERS B. heightened
_______ refers to a group whose inherited physical characteristics distinguish it from other
groups.
a .ethnicity
b. race
c. minority group
d. dominant group - CORRECT ANSWERS b. Race
8. A(n) _____ group is the group with the most power, greatest privileges, and highest social
status.
a. racial
b. established minority
c. ethnic
d. dominant - CORRECT ANSWERS d. dominant
3. Which of the following statements about race is true?
a. race is a concept that biologists and anthropologists agree upon
b. Anthropologist Ashley Montagu thought there were only two verifiable racial groups
c. Anthropologist, Ashley Montagu identified people into forty racial groups.
d. Sociologists and anthropologists agree that there are two thousand races. - CORRECT
ANSWERS c. Anthropologist Ashley Montagu identified people into forty racial groups.
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19. _____ is person-to-person or face-to-face discrimination.
A. Institutional discrimination
B. Individual discrimination
C. Racism
D. Prejudice - CORRECT ANSWERS B. Individual discrimination
5. The annihilation or attempted annihilation of a people because of their presumed race or
ethnicity is known as_________.
a. genocide
b. racial superiority
c. racial purification
d. ethnic work - CORRECT ANSWERS a. genocide
20. Built into society's institutions, _____ is negative treatment of a minority group.
A.institutional prejudice
B.unintentional discrimination
C. institutional discrimination
D. contact theory - CORRECT ANSWERS C. institutional discrimination
10. Julio had a strong sense of ethnic identity. Our ethnic identity is _____ by our group having
smaller numbers in a society and being the object of discrimination.
, A. somewhat lessened
B. heightened
C. unaffected
D. pretty well eliminated - CORRECT ANSWERS B. heightened
_______ refers to a group whose inherited physical characteristics distinguish it from other
groups.
a .ethnicity
b. race
c. minority group
d. dominant group - CORRECT ANSWERS b. Race
8. A(n) _____ group is the group with the most power, greatest privileges, and highest social
status.
a. racial
b. established minority
c. ethnic
d. dominant - CORRECT ANSWERS d. dominant
3. Which of the following statements about race is true?
a. race is a concept that biologists and anthropologists agree upon
b. Anthropologist Ashley Montagu thought there were only two verifiable racial groups
c. Anthropologist, Ashley Montagu identified people into forty racial groups.
d. Sociologists and anthropologists agree that there are two thousand races. - CORRECT
ANSWERS c. Anthropologist Ashley Montagu identified people into forty racial groups.
