The separate but equal doctrine was upheld by which of the following Supreme Court decisions?
a. Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka
b. Endo v. United States
c. Plessy v. Ferguson
d. Roe v. Wade
Question 2Empirical information consists of:
a. common sense
b. personal knowledge accumulated through years of experience
c. carefully collected, unbiased data
d. the carefully considered opinions of social observers
Question 3The Jim Crow laws passed in the South after the Civil War were an example of:
a. de facto segregation
b. de jure segregation
c. genocide
d. reverse discrimination
Question 4Which of the following investigations related to human social life is most likely to be an empirical study?
a. In an effort to determine the percentage of blacks living in a certain southern city, Ms. Davis stands on a street corner in an upper class neighborhood and counts all the people passing by, dividing them into racial groups
b. Interested in knowing the influence of ideas on human social life, Mr. Smith researches the topic in the encyclopedia
c. Mr. Smith surveys 200 deaf and hearing teenagers on their opinions regarding the sex role division of labor in the home
d. Ms. Davis interviews medical professionals and families for an article in Newsweek magazine on Alzheimer's Disease
Question 5The laws passed in the South just after the Civil War to restrict where blacks could live, the types of jobs they could hold, and where they could go to school were known as:
a. affirmative action programs
b. de facto segregation
c. Jim Crow laws
d. internal colonialism
Question 6The term empirical refers to:
a. carefully gathered, unbiased data regarding social conditions and behavior
b. the application of moral principles to social policy
c. the application of scientific methods to the study of moral problems
d. using the techniques of investigative journalism to analyze social problems
Question 7Another term for South Africa's former policy of extreme racial segregation is:
a. apartheid
b. de facto segregation
c. expulsion
d. genocide
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