Chapter 3 Practice Quiz

. How does the primordialist view see 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

. Approximately what percentage of the Canadian population is foreign born?

1 percent

20 percent

40 percent

60 percent

80 percent

. When was Canada's multicultural policy initiated?

1871

1881

1901

1951

1971

. 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 Arendt

Joh 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 amount 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

. What does The Polish Peasant in Europe and America argue?

Polish immigrants are better able to survive Canadian winter over other immigrants

Polish immigrants receive more prejudice than other immigrants

Polish immigrants of all generations have an equally difficult time assimilating to Canadian culture

Polish immigrants struggle with the Canadian education system, as it is radically different from their own

Members of the same extended family can experience different degrees acceptance and access

. 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 believe that social inequality only exists in countries with a low GDP

. What does structural theory say about being an immigrant?

People who are most similar to the host society will enjoy the most rapid assimilation into the labor market

People who are most similar to the host society will not assimilate well into the labour market

People who are ethnic minorities have the same chance of getting a job as everyone else

People who do not go to university are more likely to get highly paid work

People who are the children of immigrants have a more difficult time getting jobs than that of their parents.

. 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.

True

False

. Diasporas are the spread of ethnic minorities to different countries.

True

False

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

True

False

. Institutional racism is the most visible form of racism.

True

False

. 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.

True

False

. Aversive racists are those who do not sympathize with victims of racism and hold strong racist views themselves.

True

False

. Those born in Canada have a consistently higher rate of employment compared to immigrants.

True

False

. In absolute terms, most of those who are impoverished in Canada and the USA are white.

True

False

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