The Matsui family came to the United States from Japan thirty years ago. They now speak English at home and the Matsui children date non-Japanese students at college. This family's story is closest to which of the following concepts?
  • segregation
  • assimilation
  • set apart by that society and disadvantaged.
  • miscegenation
Scapegoat theory states that prejudice is created by:
  • frustration among disadvantaged people.
  • minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant category
  • biological traits; cultural traits
  • a trait of certain individuals.
Which of the following concepts refers to biological reproduction by people of different racial categories?
  • minority
  • segregation
  • ethnicity
  • miscegenation
Assimilation refers to the pattern by which:.
  • minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant category
  • stated an exaggerated description and applied it to everyone in some category.
  • biological traits; cultural traits
  • a socially constructed category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important
While prejudice is a matter of _____, discrimination is a matter of _____.
  • segregation
  • miscegenation
  • attitude; action
  • assimilation
Which of the following concepts refers to the physical and social separation of categories of people?
  • miscegenation
  • ethnicity
  • assimilation
  • segregation
Which of the following concepts refers to a state in which racial and ethnic minorities are distinct, but have social parity?
  • miscegenation
  • minority
  • segregation
  • pluralism
Which of the following concepts refers to a shared cultural heritage?
  • segregation
  • miscegenation
  • ethnicity
  • minority
You would be expressing a "stereotype" if you:
  • a socially constructed category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important
  • stated an exaggerated description and applied it to everyone in some category.
  • minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant category
  • False
A minority is defined as a category of people who are:
  • a trait of certain individuals.
  • frustration among disadvantaged people.
  • assimilation
  • set apart by that society and disadvantaged.
Authoritarian personality theory states that extreme prejudice is:
  • a trait of certain individuals.
  • minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant category
  • frustration among disadvantaged people.
  • biological traits; cultural traits
Being Greek, Italian, or Vietnamese involves a distinctive ethnicity.
  • True
  • False
Ethnicity is harder to change than racial identity
  • True
  • False
Prejudice is a rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people
  • True
  • False
In most cases, race and ethnicity refer to the same thing.
  • True
  • False
All members of a minority category are poor.
  • True
  • False
Research with the social distance scale among U.S. college students scale shows increasing social acceptance of people of various racial and ethnic categories over time
  • True
  • False
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