SOC164 EXAM 1 Review

Slavery was a __________ system, or a closed stratification system.

Which of the following characteristics is NOT typical of ascribed status?

The tendency to judge other groups by the standards of one's own group is called:

The first Africans were probably introduced into colonial American society as:

Racist ideas and behaviors are:

The ____________ was based on cultivating and exporting crops on large tracts of land using a large, cheap labor force

According to human capital theory, upward mobility is a direct result of:

One of the variables that researchers suggest is a cause of the decline in prejudice is:

Societies are divided into horizontal layers (strata) called:

Which of the following would be classified as an ethnic minority group?

The competition with Native Americans centered on:

_______________ came to America because of religious persecution.

Pluralism exists when:

Friends are to the primary sector as ______________ are to the secondary sector.

The Internet:

Globally, immigration is:

The idea that racism is changing form to a more subtle way of expressing negative feelings is called:

In colonial America, American Indians were not enslaved. According to the Noel hypothesis, this was because:

The U.S. is often referred to as a(n):

A society with a small elite class and a plantation-based economy will often develop a form of relations called:

Which of the following theories argues that status attainment is a direct result of education, values, and skills?

The ratification of the 15th Amendment in 1870 extended the right to vote to:

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a minority group?

Working class and lower class white men:

Washington and Du Bois agreed that the only acceptable goal for African Americans was a(n) ________________ U.S.

Scholars believe some slaves merged Christian ideas with their original beliefs about the universe. This is called:

Social structure is divided into primary and secondary sectors. Primary sector refers to:

The process of assimilation could be illustrated by:

The deliberate attempt to exterminate an entire group is referred to as:

Variations in human skin color:

Urbanization created the potential for minority groups to:

Under the sharecropping system of farming, the sharecropper:

Most hate crimes are motivated by:

The period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War was a time of:

Which of the following laws did NOT restrict African Americans in the South from voting?

Stratification is an important concept in the study of minority groups because:

People may learn racist behavior through:

The concept of multiculturalism includes:

Affirmative action:

The ________ movement supported universal suffrage.

For African American men and women, the changes wrought by _____________ created new possibilities and new roles.

In agrarian society, work was:

Which factors are interlinked with European immigration to the U.S.?

The one common factor that seems to account for the origin of all prejudice is:

The two groups projected to increase most dramatically in the U.S. over the next half century are:

When the goal of a minority group is to sever all ties with the larger society, it is called:

Approximately what percentage of Southern whites owned slaves?

The majority of hate crimes are committed by:

Marriages between slaves:

When the unequal treatment of an entire group is built into the daily operation of society, this is called: