What is behaviour called that treats a group or individual differently from others?
Correct answer A. Discrimination
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Which model of migration admits immigrants temporarily, usually for economic reasons, without granting them citizenship rights?
Correct answer A. Guest worker
What term describes the scattering of an ethnic population from its original homeland into foreign lands, often by force?
Correct answer B. Diaspora
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Which statement about ethnic groups is correct?
Correct answer C. They are groups identified on cultural grounds
In what way does racial and ethnic stratification differ from other forms of stratification?
Correct answer C. Racial and ethnic groups often have the potential to carve out their own independent nations from the existing state
Which statement best describes symbolic racism?
Correct answer C. It reflects white concern that further reductions in racial inequality will cost them the special status they have long enjoyed in the United States
Which statement about institutional discrimination is correct?
Correct answer A. It occurs in part when gatekeepers admit others like themselves to positions of privilege, prestige and power
Functionalists argue that ethnic conflict, though dysfunctional, can still serve important social functions. Which of these is NOT one of those functions?
Correct answer A. Conflict arising from ethnic stratification may reach an unacceptable frequency and intensity
What is true of a split labour market?
Correct answer B. It underlies the development of ethnic tensions
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On which point do the functionalist and conflict perspectives agree?
Correct answer B. Conflicts will be particularly likely and severe if class and ethnic cleavages coincide
Ethnic identity refers to:
Correct answer B. a felt sense of group membership on the basis of religion, language or history
What does the term new racism refer to?
Correct answer D. A subtler form of prejudice masked by nationalist pride
Which sociological perspective examines race at the macro level and treats the economic structure as central to the exploitation of minority groups?
Correct answer A. Conflict perspective
Which equation represents pluralism?
Correct answer B. A+B+C=A+B+C
Which country has the world’s largest concentration of Jews?
Correct answer C. Israel
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Which of these is not part of the sociological definition of a minority group?
Correct answer C. Minority groups are always non-white
Banning intermarriage between ethnic groups, physically separating them and restricting contact between them are all examples of what?
Correct answer C. Group closure
Roughly what percentage of the world’s population now lives outside the country where they were born?
Correct answer A. 3%
Which of these is not one of the four migration trends identified by Castles and Miller (1993)?
Correct answer B. Regionalisation
A minority group is one that is disadvantaged and also what?
Correct answer D. Has some sense of collective or group solidarity