UPDATED - SOC CHAPTER 10

UPDATED - SOC CHAPTER 10

BENOKRAITIS EXAM (ACTUAL -

QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

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Assimilation - --ANSWERS___conforming to the culture of the dominant group by adopting its language and values and intermarrying with that group.Discrimination - --ANSWERS___behavior that treats people unequally or unfairly because of their group membership.

Individual discrimination - --ANSWERS___Harmful action on a one-to-one basis by a member of a dominant group against a member of a minority group.

Institutional discrimination - --ANSWERS___Unequal treatment and fewer opportunities that minority group members experience as a result of the everyday operations of a society's laws, rules, policies, practices, and customs.

Gendered racism - --ANSWERS___The overlapping and cumulative effects of inequality due to racism and sexism.

Contact hypothesis - --ANSWERS___The idea that the more people get to know members of a minority group personally, the less likely they are to be prejudiced against that group.

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UPDATED - SOC CHAPTER 10

BENOKRAITIS EXAM (ACTUAL -

QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

Miscegenation - --ANSWERS___Marriage or sexual relations between a man and a woman of different races.

social construction - --ANSWERS___a societal convention that labels people based on physical appearance, social class, or other characteristics

race - --ANSWERS___refers to physical characteristics with which we are born

ethnicity - --ANSWERS___describes cultural characteristics that we learn

racial-ethnic - --ANSWERS___includes both physical and cultural traits

undocumented immigrants - --ANSWERS___dramatic rise of immigrants that are not legal citizens in the US

de jure - --ANSWERS___legal (segregation) ; was declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court at Brown v. Board of Education

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