Sociology Chapter 10 Review #1
1. Both are common experiences in minority groups
A: Discrimination and Prejudice
2. Apartheid is an example of what type of discrimination?
A: Legal
3. Involves behaviors more than attitudes
A: Discrimination
4. What are the two types of discrimination?
A: Legal and Institutionalized
5. If you are denied a housing based on ethnicity today, what type of discrimination is this?
A: Institutionalized
6. What is institutionalized discrimination
A: Outgrowth of the structure of society
7. What is Prejudice?
A: Unsupported generalization about a category of people”
8. Involves attitudes more than behaviors
A: Prejudice
9. What is a “negative form of prejudice; oversimplified, exaggerated or unfavorable
generalization about a group of people.” (239).
A: Stereotype
10. What sociologist believed: “If [people] define situations as real, they are real in their
consequences”?
A. W.I. Thomas
11. This sociologist believed in self-fulfilling prophecy
A. Robert K. Merton
12. What is the following statement an example of? “All Irish Americans are hot tempered.”
A. Stereotype
13. What do people use as justification for prejudice and discrimination?
A: Race
14. What are the three sources for discrimination and prejudice?
A: Sociological, Psychological, Economic
15. Sociologist that believed that prejudiced people share certain characteristics
A. Theodor Adorno
16. What are the characteristics of prejudiced people according to some sociologists?
A: Authoritarian, likely to follow rules, anger, blame others for problems
17. What source for discrimination and prejudice focuses on individual behavior?
A: Psychological
Sociology Chapter 10 Review # 2
1. According to sociologists, what are the reasons that society uses scapegoats?
A: Physical features, style of dress, religious practices
Lack of power
Geographic area: easy target
Targeted in the past
2. What source of discrimination and prejudice stresses fitting into cultural norms and staying
within the “in-group”?
A: Sociological
3. What source for discrimination and prejudice would conflict theorists say stresses struggle for
jobs?
A: Economic
4. Give an example of economic discrimination from class.
5. What are the seven patterns of minority group treatment that the book lists?
A: Cultural pluralism, assimilation, legal protection, segregation, subjugation, population
transfer, extermination.
6. What is the Teller Institute of Grand Junction an example of within the minority treatments?
A: You decide and why
7. What country is an example of cultural pluralism and why?
A: Switzerland: 3 official languages-French, German, and Italian
8. What is an example of legal protection that is still used in the United States Today?
A: Affirmative Action
9. Give your own definition of affirmative action. Do you agree with it? What are pros and
cons?
10. What are the two types of Segregation?
A: de jure segregation: based on and enforced by law
And de facto segregation: segregation based on informal norms
11. What is “maintaining of control over a group through force?”
A: Subjugation
12. What is a type of subjugation and an example from history or today?
A: Slavery; Apartheid, Jim Crow Laws, etc.
13. What is population transfer?
A: Occurs when a dominate population separates itself from a minority group by transferring the
minority group to a different location.
14. What are the two types of population transfer?
A. Direct and Indirect
15. What are the differences between direct and indirect population transfer?
A. See notes given in class
16. What is the difference between genocide and ethnic cleansing?
A: See notes given in class. One is intent to kill; another is intent to move.
17. What is an example of genocide given in class?
A: Rwanda: Tutsi and moderate Hutu killed by majority Hutu (April 7, 1994)
Sociology Chapter 10 Review # 3
1. How do sociologists define race?
A: “category of people who share inherited physical characteristics and whom others see as
being a distinct group.”
2. What are the three type of races that sociologists use to categorize people?
A: Caucasoids, Mongoloids, and Negroids
3. When discussing ethnicity, what cultural characteristics distinguish one group from another?
A: food, traditions, location, religion, language, values.
4. True or false. Minority groups are the smallest section of a society.
A: False.
5. What is a dominate group that allows people within that group to have more resources (i.e.
better housing, better schools, higher incomes).
A: Majority group
6. What do all minority groups have in common?
A: lack of power
7. What sociologist studied minority groups?
A: Louis Wirth: claimed that because physical characteristics or cultural practices a group of
people are treated unequally.
8.According to sociologists, what are the five points that you must have to be considered a
minority? (Know)
A:
1. Possess identifiable physical or cultural traits that differ from the majority
2. Be a victim of unequal treatment at the hands of dominate groups
3. Membership in the group is an ascribed status
4. Group members share a deep loyalty and strong bond
5. Members tend to marry within their social group
9. From the article, America’s Unfair Rules of the Road, what is legal discrimination v.
institutionalized discrimination?
10. Why were the people of Dayton fear public transportation?
A: (Top of page 4)
11. What is the difference between discriminatory intent v. discriminatory impact? Does it
matter to the people?
A: (Bottom of page 6)
12. What are the five minority groups in the United States that sociologists recognize within our
book?
A: Hispanic, American Indians, White Ethnic Challenges, African Americans, Asian Americans.
13. With a friend make sure to review the information collected from the presentations. This part
of the test will be matching. I will use similar language to what you used within your
presentations.