Practice Quiz: Chapter 08

. According to your text, which country was the top source of immigrants coming into Canada in 2010?

. Which term refers to an ideology and a mechanism for reducing the conflict inherent in maintaining a commitment to both liberal and non-egalitarian values?

. For immigration into Canada, in what year was the points system introduced?

. Ethnicity comes from the Greek word "ethnos" which means what?

. What are Canada's charter groups?

. What type of policy have Quebec governments pursued for their province?

. What concept did Durkheim use as a primary source of identity formation?

. What term do sociologists use to refer to the social processes and practices through which relations among people are structured?

. At the peak of immigration in 1913, how many immigrants arrived in Canada?

. What label was used by the Canadian Government up to the 1960s to classify those they wished to exclude from immigrating to Canada?

. Because it is covert, de jure discrimination is more difficult to resist and combat.

. The largest category of admitted immigrants is that of business immigrants.

. Ethnic inequality can be analyzed outside the class context.

. The promotion and eventual policy of multiculturalism was introduced by Pierre Trudeau.

. Weber believed that the collective conscience of the people leads them to an "us" versus "them" mentality.

. Multiculturalism has defeated racism and class inequalities.

. In 1984, the Royal Commission on Equality in Employment found substantial income disparities among visible minorities.

. Ethnicity refers to social distinctions among individuals and groups based upon their cultural characteristics.

. For Weber, race denotes groups' common identity based on biological hereditary.

. Until the 1960s, the image of Canada as a nation was based on the notion that the British and French peoples had founded the country.

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