Race and Ethnicity MCQs with Answers | Sociology – Page 2

Question 21 Race and Ethnicity

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

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Question 22 Race and Ethnicity

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

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Question 23 Race and Ethnicity

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

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Question 24 Race and Ethnicity

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

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Question 25 Race and Ethnicity

What is true of a split labour market?

Correct answer B. It underlies the development of ethnic tensions

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Question 26 Race and Ethnicity

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

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Question 27 Race and Ethnicity

Ethnic identity refers to:

Correct answer B. a felt sense of group membership on the basis of religion, language or history

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Question 28 Race and Ethnicity

What does the term new racism refer to?

Correct answer D. A subtler form of prejudice masked by nationalist pride

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Question 29 Race and Ethnicity

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

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Question 30 Race and Ethnicity

Which equation represents pluralism?

Correct answer B. A+B+C=A+B+C

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Question 31 Race and Ethnicity

Which country has the world’s largest concentration of Jews?

Correct answer C. Israel

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Question 32 Race and Ethnicity

Which of these is not part of the sociological definition of a minority group?

Correct answer C. Minority groups are always non-white

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Question 33 Race and Ethnicity

Banning intermarriage between ethnic groups, physically separating them and restricting contact between them are all examples of what?

Correct answer C. Group closure

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Question 34 Race and Ethnicity

Roughly what percentage of the world’s population now lives outside the country where they were born?

Correct answer A. 3%

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Question 35 Race and Ethnicity

Which of these is not one of the four migration trends identified by Castles and Miller (1993)?

Correct answer B. Regionalisation

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Question 36 Race and Ethnicity

A minority group is one that is disadvantaged and also what?

Correct answer D. Has some sense of collective or group solidarity

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Question 37 Race and Ethnicity

What is the idea that racism runs through all of society’s structures in a systematic way called?

Correct answer C. Institutional racism

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Question 38 Immigration Issues in Pakistan

What is the systematic destruction of one ethnic group by another called?

Correct answer A. Genocide

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Question 39 Population Growth

What was South Africa’s system of enforced racial segregation called?

Correct answer B. Apartheid

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