Soc 134 Exam 1 Inquizitive UPDATED Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Soc 134 Exam 1 Inquizitive UPDATED
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What best illustrates how race and ethnicity are typically perceived in the US context? -
CORRECT ANSWER- ethnicity reflects differences within racial groups (e.g. in white,
there is Irish, Italian, English, etc.)
Soc 134 Exam 1 Inquizitive UPDATED
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What best illustrates how race and ethnicity are typically perceived in the US context? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- ethnicity reflects differences within racial groups (e.g. in white,
there is Irish, Italian, English, etc.)
In the United States, the degree to which people have the power to choose, emphasize, or
alter their multiple ethnic identities depends mostly on _____________. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- the degree to which those identities are stigmatized
Historically speaking, identify who decided which racial groups could become citizens and
which individuals belonged to particular groups. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- congress and
the courts
There is more genetic variation within traditionally defined racial groups than between racial
groups. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- true
Place the items for development and use of IQ testing in order from first to last. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- 1. IQ testing is used as a technique to identify children with special needs
2. Scholars begin arguing that IQ is hereditary
3. Arthur Jensen argues that innate differences in IQ levels exist between whites and blacks
4. Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray argue that innate IQ differences could explain
various social inequalities
Many people still assume that racial differences are dictated by nature and point to "obvious
physical differences" that define so-called racial groups. When looking at these physical
differences, the authors come to which of the following conclusions? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- - there are physical differences between people in general
-no racial group has members that share the exact same physical characteristics
Place the events in America's immigration policy in chronological order. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- 1. Black people were granted the right to naturalize as US citizens
2. The Johnson-Reed Act, a strict immigration policy, was passed
, 3. Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act, which reorganized US
naturalization law and forbade denying citizenship on the basis of race
According to the authors, which of the following best describe what it is like to "think like a
sociologist" about race and ethnicity? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - avoid relying on
commonsense explanations of the social world
-to comprehend everyday life through the broader historical forces that structure and direct it
- to not get hung up on racial labels
Institutional racism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the systematic white domination of POC
Phenotype - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a person's physical characteristics
Symbolic violence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- when POC unknowingly support their own
oppression
Biological determinism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the belief that social differences
between races are natural
What was the context in which the concept of ethnicity was invented? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- it was created by Americans to make sense of the new immigration from
southern and eastern Europe
Arguments supposing that social and economic differences between races are the result of
immutable, inherited, and inborn distinctions are called ___________. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- biological determinism
The infamous 1994 book that claims, among other things, that whites have higher IQs than
blacks, and for the most part, these differences are genetic is called ____________. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- "The Bell Curve" (Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray)
Which of the following best explains the relationship between race, ethnicity, citizenship, and
national origin? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Race, ethnicity, citizenship, and national origin
are all intimately connected and have informed one another
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