Which of the following was the University of California educational psychologist who claimed in 1969 that differences in IQ scores between Blacks and Whites are most likely genetic?
a. Herbert Spencer
b. Arthur Jensen
c. Richard Herrnstein
d. Charles Murray
Question 2The term meritocracy means those who_____ rise to the top of society.
a. receive the most votes in a democratic election
b. have the most ability, talent, and effort
c. have been able to acquire the greatest wealth
d. make the best moral and ethical decisions
Question 3Social Darwinism continues to surface under different names, but the basic point of these theories is the same, that
a. the poor are poor because they are genetically inferior.
b. the poor are poor because they are culturally inferior.
c. when poor people rise from poverty, their genes improve to the same degree.
d. when middle-class or wealthy people lose their wealth, it is because they are genetically inferior.
Question 4Which of the following was the 19th century British philosopher and sociologist who came to the United States to promote the concept of social Darwinism?
a. Arthur Jensen
b. Charles Darwin
c. John Locke
d. Herbert Spencer
Question 5Patricia Hill Collins called the intersection of the heirarchical systems of inequality the
a. heirarchy of subordination.
b. hierarchical matrix.
c. matrix of domination.
d. matrix of subjegation.
Question 6When Max tells his friends that only straight people are normal and all other orientations are deviants, his opinion is based on the concept of
a. repressed homosexuality.
b. heteronormativity.
c. sex-gender systemization.
d. homosapiens.
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