In inner-city areas, where African American people have little contact of any kind with people in the larger society, Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton described which of the following in 1989?
a. assimilation
b. pluralism
c. hypersegregation
d. institutional prejudice
Which of the following terms refers to the systematic killing of one category of people by another?
a. infanticide
b. genocide
c. patricide
d. homicide
Which of the following terms refers to the physical and social separation of categories of people?
a. segregation
b. assimilation
c. pluralism
d. the melting pot
If current trends continue, minorities will together make up a majority of the entire U.S. population by about
a. 2016.
b. 2023.
c. 2043.
d. 2063.
In 2012, for the first time, most children born in the United States
a. were born to parents born abroad.
b. lived with single fathers.
c. were minorities.
d. were poor.
A minority is defined as any category of people
a. who have a distinctive cultural identity.
b. who live with income below the poverty line.
c. that represents less than half of the society's population.
d. that is physically or culturally distinctive and socially disadvantaged.
The remarkable racial and ethnic diversity of the United States is, most of all, a product of
a. multiculturalism in colleges.
b. intermarriage.
c. the formation of subcultures.
d. immigration.
Marriage between people of different racial categories now accounts for about what portion of all marriages in the United States?
a. half of 1 percent
b. 1.2 percent
c. 8.2 percent
d. 25 percent
Some sociologists who are critical of racial classification argue that dividing humanity into racial categories amounts to a strategy that
a. allows some people to dominate others.
b. erodes national cultures.
c. slows economic development.
d. violates the beliefs found in most world religions.
Which of the following concepts refers to a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that a society defines as important?
a. ethnicity
b. nationality
c. race
d. subculture
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