Chapter 5 Practice Quiz

. What is race?

A social distinction based on perceived physical or biological characteristics

A social distinction based on ethnicity

A social distinction based on ethnicity and race

A social distinction based on ethnicity and gender

. Why do our ideas about race and ethnicity change over time?

Because people change over time

Because they are privately constructed

Because they are socially constructed

Because of collective struggles

. Which one of the following answers is NOT a reason why social constructionists argue race and ethnicity are social constructs?

All humanity is 99.9% genetically similar.

Within-group variation is much larger than between-group variation.

Between-group variation is much larger than within-group variation.

Definitions of race and ethnicity have changed over time and across cultures.

. Who developed symbolic ethnicity theory?

Berger and Luckmann

Weber

Marx

Waters

. What is a symbolic ethnicity?

An individualistic label that has little cost for the individual

A collectivistic label that has little cost for the individual

An individualistic label that comes at great cost for the individual

. The idea that social constructions have real consequences is referred to as what?

the Weberian model

the Thomas principle

social construction

developmentalism

. Which term refers to an invisible package of unearned assets that can be used but about which you are meant to remain invisible?

Ethnic value

Multicultural dividend

Invisible knapsack

Free values

. Which one of the following answers is NOT included in the definition for Indigenous peoples?

Inuit

Métis

First Nations

Immigrants

. Prejudice may lead to what?

Discrimination

Individual prejudice

Collective prejudice

General prejudice

. Who, according to Adorno, would develop prejudicial attitudes?

Groups with an authoritarian personality

Individuals with an authoritarian personality

Individuals with a prejudicial personality

Individuals with an authoritarian father

. Although many people favour multiculturalism, some still challenge it and question how a multicultural country can manage diversity effectively.

True

False

. The words race and ethnicity are often used interchangeably because there are no key distinctions between them.

True

False

. Essentialism is the belief that race and ethnicity are permanent and natural.

True

False

. Berger and Luckmann might argue that our ideas about race and ethnicity are socially constructed.

True

False

. Race and ethnicity are not shaped by the social context.

True

False

. The theory of social construction highlights the way that social categories we consider natural and unchanging, such as race and ethnicity, are socially created.

True

False

. In the definition of racism used by some sociologists, sanctions include restrictions and limitations on people in certain racial categories.

True

False

. A consequence of Islamophobia was the 1885 head tax imposed on Chinese immigrants by the Canadian government.

True

False

. Prejudice is a negative attitude toward someone based solely on their membership in a group.

True

False

. Some of the earliest research on prejudice was carried out by Theodore W. Adorno.

True

False

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