Engaging with Society: Meeting the Challenges of a Changing World (EWS2601)
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EWS2601 MCQ TEST
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ENGAGING
WITH SOCIETY: MEETINGTHE CHALLENGES
OF A
CHANGING WORLD
EWS2601
MAY/JUNE2013
UESTION1
A cross-cultural analysis of how different societies classify race Is likely to result in
which of the following observations?
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Racial classification is based on consistently applied measures of physical difference.
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Racial classification is a reflection of sacial rather than biological categories
Racial classification systems ensure that individuals retain their classification for Irfe.
Racial classification is a social way of quantifying genetic differences between
individuals
5. Racial classification reflects distinctive breaks in the humanphenotype.
Answer: 2
QUESTION2
In the analysis of identity, what does the term "achieved attributes" refer to? They are
identity attributes ...
that are the consequenceof genetic disease.
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acquired over the course of a person’s lifetime
determined at birth by the society one is born into
resulting from historical ethnic and trade diasporas
defined by a community's environmental context.
Answer: 2
QUESTION3
Which of the following represents an intangible marker of identity?
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a biker who drives a Harley-Davidson motorcycle
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a Christian nun who wears a black and white habit
a Yao person whose teeth are filed into a distinctwe pattern
a Jewish person's avoidance of foods containing pork
a teenager with the latest smartphone
Answer: 4
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QUESTION4
Why do some people of Maori descent argue that non-Maori people SHOULDNOT
regard Ta Moko tattoo designs as “free-to-use”?
Because...
1. the tattoo designs are reserved for marking adopted membersof the group, for
examplethose who marry into the Maori community
2 the New Zealand governmenthas outlawed the use of the tattoo designs because they
are a symbol of the fight for Maori independence
3 young Maori use the tattoo designs as a form of protest against current socio-political
conditions such as unem ployment
and limited access to state resources.
4 Ta Moko designs are a symbol of what It meansto be Maori and are reflective of the
wearer's cultural, personal and family history
5 the surgery to remove such tattoos when one is tred of ther 1s extremely painful and a
long, tedious process
Answer: 4
QUESTION5
Complete the following sentence. Retraditionalisation in the context of contemporary
South Africa, as described in the study guide, refers to ...
1 areturn to traditional ways of life, such as the wearing of traditional clothing, a revival
of ancestor rituals and a rejection of Christianity
2. an upsurge of groups in which symbols and customs are revived to identify such
groups as culturally distinct and as being characterised by a unique way of Iife
3 the reinstitution of racial and cultural differences as the overarching rationale for social
and economic discrimination.
4 the unification of South Africans irrespective of race or cultural association by drawing
on broad, encompassingAfrican images of the past
Answer: 2
QUESTION6
After the institution in 1994 of a democratic governmentin South Africa, which notion
of identity was used by chiefs in the Sodwanaarea of Maputalandto open up a way to
provide benefits to membersof their chiefdoms?
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National identity
Transnational identity
Cultural identity
Racial identity
. Religious identity
Answer: 3
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QUESTION7
Which of the following statements most correctly sums up the 1998 Braamfontein
Statement with reference to xenophobia in South Africa?
1 Many South Africans have little interest in learning about foreigners in the country and
tend to make unjustified generalisation s about their fellow Africans
2 Regardless of whether migrants are legal or illegal they are entitled to the same basic
human rights and the protection of the constitution as South African citizens
3 Xenop hobiats linked to unemp loyme nt,the slow pace of delivery of housing , and a
lack of access to proper educat ion and health service s amon gmany South Africans.
4 Xenop hobiaand violenc e against foreign ers are not new phenomena and will be an
ongoin g problem as long as immigr ants continu e to make South Africa their home.
5 Illegal immigrants will be a continuing problem in South Africa and the government
should seek to legalise their status so that they can be properly protected
Answer: 2
UESTION8
Complete the following statement. All of the following have been cited as reasons for
incidences of xenophobia in South Africa EXCEPT. .
1 competition between South Africans and foreigners for resources such as housing and
employment
2 the slow pace of service delivery and the provision of housing by the South African
governmentsince 1994
3 political and economic changes that produced unprecedentedeconomicgrowth in
South Afnca following the transition to democracyin 1994
4. “third force” activities that instigated conflict and helped to spark violent attacks on
foreigners.
5. the need of some membersof poor communities to find someoneto blame for their
hardships
Answer: 4
QUESTION9
Which of the following statement(s) regarding class awareness or class identity is/are
correct?
a. People always have a strong feeling of identification with the class grouping that they
are a memberof
b The ways in which people are excluded from being accepted as membersof a
particular class are sometimesquite subtle.
¢ Just because social scientists are able to classify people as belonging te different
classes it does not mean that these people will inevitably mobilise to defend their
common
interests
d. Despite social closure, it is still quite commonfor people to intermarry and socialise
across class boundanes
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Answer:
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