Chapter 3 Practice Quiz

. How does primordialism view ethnicity?

Ethnicity is fluid and constantly changing.

Ethnicity doesn't exist.

Ethnicity and race are the same thing.

Ethnicity is a social construct.

Ethnicity is a fixed identity.

. What is not a privilege that accrues to white individuals because of their skin color, according to scholar Peggy McIntosh:

Being able to walk alone at night without fear of harassment.

Never being asked to speak for their entire race.

Being able to assume that their experiences and perspectives are normal.

None of the above.

B and C only.

. Which sociologist used the term 'vertical mosaic' to describe how the English and French are at the top of a social hierarchy.

John Porter

Hannah Ardent

John Baudrillard

Howard Becker

Auguste Comte

. Which was NOT one of the earliest arriving ethnic groups in Canada?

Chinese

French

English

Irish

Scottish

. Which best describes Institutional Completeness?

The number of resources a school has for its students.

The amount of funding that the public sector receives.

The measure to which an immigrant ethnic group gives its own members the services they need through local interaction.

The number of government jobs available in any given year

The number of universities graduates a country has per year.

. In a systematic ranking of 17 similar countries on various social issues, Canada ranks first on only what dimension of immigrant minorities:

its integration of immigrant minorities

Its permissiveness of immigrant minorities

the racism facing immigrant minorities.

The salary of immigrant minorities.
The recognition of educational qualifications of immigrant minorities.

. How do structural functionalists think about social inequality?

They view all forms of social inequality as problems that need to get resolved.

They view social inequality as a form of social construction.

They don't believe social inequality exists.

They think that only immigrants feel the effects of social inequality.

They believe that inequalities have a value in society.

. How does a symbolic interactionist view social inequality?

They focus on inequality at a macro level.

They focus on inequality at a micro level.

They neither use a macro or micro level but disagree that social inequality exists at all.

They believe that social inequality benefits society.

They incorporate an intersectional approach.

. What is not a common principle of Critical Race Theory?

Race is a social construction.

racism is universally experienced.

racialization benefits the dominant social and racial group.

The dominant racial group's account of history routinely excludes racialized perspectives to justify, legitimize, and preserve its dominant power.

a primary or exclusive focus on race can ignore other important forms of exclusion.

. We find far more genetic variation _______"races" than _______ "races.":

Within; between

Between; within

Within; inside of

Among; between

All of these are incorrect.

. Culture is defined as the set of values and practices that provide a framework for people's lives.

True.

False

. Traditional multiculturalism is concerned with protecting the rights of individuals.

True.

False

. Entry level status as it relates to immigrants, refers to an immigrant's inability to move up the socio-economic latter due to a lack of motivation.

False

True

. Prejudice is a hostile or aversive attitude towards a person because of their membership in a particular group.

True.

False

. Indigenous people, members of racialized groups, and immigrants to Canada experience lower-than-average employment and pay rates in most regions of Canada.

True.

False

. Institutional racism is the most visible form of racism.

False

True

. Internalized racism is a classic form of prejudice in which a person makes unfound assumptions about the motives of another person based on that person's race or ethnicity.

False

True

. Canadians are less likely to view immigrants as making a positive contribution to their society.

False

True

. In the police and judicial systems, racial profiling—a tendency to look for and interpret people's behaviour differently based on their race—is common.

True

False

. Immigrant women typically suffer lower rates of intimate partner violence than Indigenous women and racialized women born in Canada.

True.

False

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