What do scientists agree on about human races?
Correct answer C. All of humankind is descended from the same common stock
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What do members of an ethnic group share?
Correct answer C. Share social and cultural traits
Which statement about prejudice is false?
Correct answer A. It is almost never found in persons with an authoritarian personality type
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What is discrimination?
Correct answer A. An action taken as a result of prejudicial feelings
Why does prejudice persist?
Correct answer D. Is emotionally satisfying
In sociological studies of race and ethnic relations, what does the term minority mean?
Correct answer D. Minority refers to an oppressed group
What do human races reflect?
Correct answer C. Mixtures of several populations
Which of these is an ascribed status that a person cannot change?
Correct answer D. Race
What is the preservation of a group’s distinctive customs and identity called?
Correct answer C. Cultural pluralism
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The Cuban community in Miami illustrates which pattern of group relations?
Correct answer C. Accommodation
What is the merging of majority and minority groups, as occurred in Brazil, called?
Correct answer A. Amalgamation
Which statement is an example of stereotyping?
Correct answer C. All blacks are good basketball players
The small number of black managers and coaches in professional baseball and American football is an example of what?
Correct answer A. Institutional discrimination
According to the most recent view, what causes problems in black families?
Correct answer C. Historic events of recent years
On which of the following do pluralist societies depend for their existence?
Correct answer A. Coexistence
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Which statement was true by the late 1990s?
Correct answer C. At least 40 percent of blacks were squarely in the middle class
What does a minority group consist of?
Correct answer C. People distinguished by their physical or cultural traits
Which statement about minority groups is correct?
Correct answer D. Constitute a subculture within the larger culture
Which process involves separating the minority population from the majority?
Correct answer B. Segregation
What is attributing the same characteristics to a whole group without allowing for individual differences called?
Correct answer A. Stereotyping