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Higher Education

Thinking About Sociology, Second Edition - Chapter 15

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Question 1:

What is the hereditary material in all organisms?
a) Serotype
b) DNA
c) Protein
d) Atoms

Question 2:

What notion of kinship is measured through the genetic material of an individual?
a) Interpersonal kinship
b) Genetic bond
c) Biological ancestry
d) Genetic kinship

Question 3:

Which term refers to the social and political process by which racial groups are socially constructed based on perceived physical differences related chiefly to ethnicity?
a) Racialization
b) Ethnicity
c) Institutionalization
d) Politicization

Question 4:

What is reserved as a privileged identity in London, England?
a) Middle-class
b) Aristocracy
c) Whiteness
d) Welsh

Question 5:

What is the foundation of “white privilege”?
a) Engaging in racist practices
b) Not having to think about the role of race
c) The oppression of Caucasian people
d) Discriminatory racial profiling

Question 6:

What term is used to account for the attitudes and practices that lead to racist outcomes through unquestioned bureaucratic procedures?
a) Group racism
b) Bureaucratic racism
c) Institutional racism
d) Corporate racism

Question 7:

What sets of beliefs usually involve judgements about the superiority and inferiority of different races?
a) Racism
b) Racialism
c) Stereotyping
d) Xenophobia

Question 8:

Which term refers to simplified ideas about a group of people that are applied to everyone in the group?
a) Prejudice
b) Discrimination
c) Stereotype
d) Ethnicity

Question 9:

The Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) brings seasonal workers to Canada from which country?
a) Mexico
b) United States
c) Brazil
d) England

Question 10:

What two terms are often mistakenly conflated?
a) Whiteness and white privilege
b) Institutional and individual racism
c) Fair and equal
d) Race and ethnicity

Question 11:

Ethnic categories can be based on “objective” criteria, such as language, dress, and cultural practices.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

The application of scientific racism was limited to colonial situations
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

Adolf Hitler took eugenicist ideas about racial purity and racial differences to the point of genocide.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

Aboriginal people are disproportionally poorer than the rest of Canadians, with unemployment rates three times those experienced by non-Aboriginal Canadians.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

Most social scientists treat the concept of race as a social construct.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

The concept of race is mainly valid for geneticists.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Carmichael and Hamilton saw institutional racism as overt, in contrast to individual racism, which they regarded as covert.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

The 2011 census identified more than 200 different ethnic or cultural origins of respondents’ ancestors.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

When Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal workers with the same education level are compared, there are no gaps in their earnings.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

The differences between Africans and Europeans are only “skin deep.”
a) True
b) False