SOC Ch 11

SOC 100, Fall 2020, Class Assignment, Chapter 12 Dr. Smith

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Chapter 12

1. Briefly explain the three race myths.

2. Your author writes that ‘the idea of race’ is ‘far from a myth’. What is the significance of this?

3. Sociologists point out that our race depends more on ..........what? (Box, p.330)

4. What is ethnicity?

5. What is ‘ethnic work?

6. What is a ‘minority group’ in society?

7. What is the ‘dominant group’ in society?

8. Explain the difference between prejudice and discrimination.

9. Explain the difference between individual and institutional discrimination.

10. Why did Countrywide Financial have to pay a $335 million fine?

11. According to your text, what are the reasons for the racial disparities in Table 12.1?

12. Sociologists ‘stress that the key to understanding prejudice is’.......... what?

13. ‘Prejudice and discrimination were functional for the Nazis’. How so (Hipler’s movies)?

14. Explain ‘how labels create prejudice’ according to symbolic interactionists.

15. What was the significance of applying the label ‘savages’ to Native Americans in the 1800s?

16. What is the significance of ‘labels that dehumanize’ and thus help people to ‘compartmentalize’?

17. Explain ‘segregation’.

18. What did WASPs think about ‘white ethnics – immigrants from Europe from Europe whose language and other customs differed from theirs’?

19. What is the general point being made in ‘Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack’? (Box, p.349).

20. Explain how race/ethnicity links with ‘economic well-being’ (Table 12.2).

21. Explain William Julius Wilson’s perspective on the relative importance of social class for African Americans today (include the ‘two worlds of African American experience’ that have developed).

22. ‘The high average incomes of Asian Americans can be traced’ to ............. what?

23. Henslin writes: ‘The systematic attempts of European Americans to destroy the Native Americans’ way of life and their resettlement onto reservations continue to have deleterious effects.’ What are those effects?

24. Your author concludes the chapter by stating that the ‘United States has the potential to become society in which racial-ethnic groups ........ respect one another .... thrive ........ and work together for mutually beneficial goals’. How can such potential be realized?