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Chapter 5 Practice Quiz
Race, Ethnicity, and indigenous Peoples
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What is race?
A social distinction based on perceived physical or biological characteristics
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A social distinction based on ethnicity
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A social distinction based on ethnicity and race
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A social distinction based on ethnicity and gender
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Why do our ideas about race and ethnicity change over time?
Because people change over time
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Because they are privately constructed
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Because they are socially constructed
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Because of collective struggles
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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.
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Within-group variation is much larger than between-group variation.
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Between-group variation is much larger than within-group variation.
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Definitions of race and ethnicity have changed over time and across cultures.
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Who developed symbolic ethnicity theory?
Berger and Luckmann
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Weber
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Marx
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Waters
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What is a symbolic ethnicity?
An individualistic label that has little cost for the individual
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A collectivistic label that has little cost for the individual
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A collectivistic label that has little cost for the individual
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An individualistic label that comes at great cost for the individual
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The idea that social constructions have real consequences is referred to as what?
the Weberian model
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the Thomas principle
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social construction
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developmentalism
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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
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Multicultural dividend
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Invisible knapsack
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Free values
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Which one of the following answers is NOT included in the definition for Indigenous peoples?
Inuit
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Métis
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First Nations
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Immigrants
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Prejudice may lead to what?
Discrimination
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Individual prejudice
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Collective prejudice
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General prejudice
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Who, according to Adorno, would develop prejudicial attitudes?
Groups with an authoritarian personality
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Individuals with an authoritarian personality
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Individuals with a prejudicial personality
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Individuals with an authoritarian father
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Although many people favour multiculturalism, some still challenge it and question how a multicultural country can manage diversity effectively.
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The words
race
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ethnicity
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Essentialism is the belief that race and ethnicity are permanent and natural.
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Berger and Luckmann might argue that our ideas about race and ethnicity are socially constructed.
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Race and ethnicity are not shaped by the social context.
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The theory of social construction highlights the way that social categories we consider natural and unchanging, such as race and ethnicity, are socially created.
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In the definition of racism used by some sociologists, sanctions include restrictions and limitations on people in certain racial categories.
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A consequence of Islamophobia was the 1885 head tax imposed on Chinese immigrants by the Canadian government.
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Prejudice is a negative attitude toward someone based solely on their membership in a group.
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Some of the earliest research on prejudice was carried out by Theodore W. Adorno.
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