During the twentieth and early twenty-first century, immigration from Mexico to the
United States:
a. Has risen constantly; each year brings more immigrants than the year before
b. Has fluctuated according to the demand for unskilled labor in the United States
c. Has generally declined; there are actually fewer immigrants today than in the 1930s
d. Has fluctuated according to the demand for workers in the primary sector of the U.S.
economy
e. Has declined as the children of the immigrants now replace the former immigrants
Setback(s) during the 1980s for LGBT people include:
a. AIDS/HIV outbreak
b. Bowers v. Hardwick decision
c. The McCarthy prosecutions
d. A and B only
Which intermarriage best illustrates Kennedy’s concept of the “triple melting pot”?
a. A marriage between an Irish Catholic woman and a Russian Jewish man
b. An interracial marriage between an African American man and a European American
woman
c. A marriage between an Irish Catholic man and an Irish Protestant woman
d. A marriage between a Native American woman and a French Protestant man
e. A marriage between a Polish Jewish man and a Russian Jewish woman
Blauner’s hypothesis identifies three features of a group’s initial contact situation:
ethnocentrism, competition, and a differential in power.
a. True
b. False
While Mexican Americans have resided primarily in the Southwest region, Puerto
Ricans are concentrated in the:
a. Urban Northeast
b. Rural Midwest
c. Urban South
d. Rural Northwest
e. Urban West coast
Prejudices faced by Mexican Americans (e.g., lazy, unmotivated) were incorporated
into the dominant culture and were transferred to Puerto Ricans when they began to
arrive on the mainland.
a. True
b. False
What is an enclave minority?
a. A minority that depends on the service sector for their growth in the city of choice
b. A social, economic, and cultural sub-society controlled by the group itself
c. Minorities ordered to reside and work in a certain geographical region
d. A situation that considers the race, class, and gender of the person to relocate him or
her into a lucrative job
The distinction between prejudice and discrimination is that:
a. Prejudice is a behavior; discrimination is an attitude
b. Prejudice is an attitude; discrimination is a behavior
c. Prejudice is an ideology; discrimination is an attitude
d. Prejudice is an attitude; discrimination is an ideology
e. Prejudice is a feeling; discrimination involves ways of thinking
American slavery was a paternalistic system.
a. True
b. False
Human capital theorists believe that the greater investment in ___, the higher the
person’s chances of success.
a. education, personal values, and skills
b. stocks, personal values, and being on time
c. values, skills, and skill sets
d. developing talent, communication tools, and technology
People of color are more likely to assume the gay identity.
a. True
b. False
In the United States, minority group status has been and continues to be one of the most
important determinants of life chances, health, wealth, and success.
a. True
b. False
According to sociologist Stanley Lieberson, the northern migration of African
Americans actually aided the upward mobility of European immigrants and their
descendants.
a. True
b. False
American Indians acted on an old law that granted American Indians the right to
reclaim abandoned federal land when they occupied Alcatraz Island. Today, several
tribes thrive there by giving tours of the former federal prison.
a. True
b. False
American Indians are increasingly diversified by residence, education, and degree of
assimilation.
a. True
b. False
Minority group females are doubly oppressed.
a. True
b. False
Complete assimilation is not possible in paternalistic systems.
a. True
b. False
The idea that Asian Americans are successful because their values are similar to the
U.S. middle class system, which in turn helped them gain acceptance and opportunities
indicates a(n) __________ explanation of success.
a. strategic
b. cultural
c. psychological
d. structural
Which of the following laws did not restrict African Americans in the South from
voting?
a. Poll taxes
b. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution
c. Literacy tests
d. “Grandfather” clauses
e. Property ownership requirements
How did slave owners use Christianity to brainwash slaves into accepting their status?
a. They stressed obedience and the rewards of the next life.
b. They emphasized the importance of black inferiority to the succession of the human
race.
c. They demanded that blacks focus on the misery and injustice of life in order to
promote hard work.
d. They educated blacks about the bible and took them to church.
Prejudice has at least two dimensions: an affective or “emotional” dimension and a
cognitive or “thinking” dimension.
a. True
b. False
Mexican Americans remain a colonized minority group because:
a. There are so few immigrating to the United States
b. They are systematically excluded from opportunities for upward mobility
c. The United States had attempted to annex Mexico
d. It is still legal to discriminate against Mexican Americans
Which of the following theories argues that status attainment is a direct result of
educational levels, personal values, and skills?
a. Human capital theory
b. Multiculturalism
c. Marital assimilation
d. Acculturation
e. None of the above
Mary Crow Dog’s essay describes the coercive acculturation of American Indian
children via the education system. It parallels a similar education system in which
country?
a. Canada
b. Australia
c. New Zealand
d. South Africa
e. Russia
The United States has become more tolerant and open, and minority group members
can be found at the highest levels of success, affluence, and prestige. One of the most
obvious changes is:
a. Demise of blatant bigotry in public
b. The disappearance of negative intergroup feelings and stereotypes
c. The decline of traditional racism and prejudice
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
Which of the following exemplifies how structural mobility benefited ethnic whites in
the 20th century?
a. Ethnic whites became more visible in labor unions
b. Ethnic whites became more involved in their churches
c. Ethnic whites pursued careers in sports and organized crime
d. Ethnic whites had more opportunity for education
Which dimension of globalization is key to understanding contemporary immigration?
a. Economics and the movement of jobs and opportunity from place to place
b. The relationship between the bourgeoisie and the proletariats.
c. Unequal stratification systems within and between countries.
d. The growth of terrorism throughout industrialized society.
The__________________, sometimes called the competitive market, includes
low-paying, low-skilled, insecure jobs.
a. primary labor market
b. secondary labor market
c. split-labor market
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
Under the Dawes Act, American Indians lost significant portions of their land, and
much that remained was of poor quality.
a. True
b. False
Which statement is true of Puerto Ricans?
a. They are primarily Native American.
b. They are primarily African.
c. They are a racial group, not an ethnic group.
d. They are a mixture of white and black ancestry.
Friends are to the primary sector as __________ are to the secondary sector.
a. Task oriented groups
b. Family members
c. Spouses
d. Roommates
e. None of the above