UPDATED 2025-2026 SOC CHAPTER 10
BENOKRAITIS EXAM (ACTUAL 2024-2025)
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
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Assimilation - --ANSWERS___conforming to the culture of the dominant group by adopting its language and values and intermarrying with that group.Discrimination - --ANSWERS___behavior that treats people unequally or unfairly because of their group membership.
Individual discrimination - --ANSWERS___Harmful action on a one-to-one basis by a member of a dominant group against a member of a minority group.
Institutional discrimination - --ANSWERS___Unequal treatment and fewer opportunities that minority group members experience as a result of the everyday operations of a society's laws, rules, policies, practices, and customs.
Gendered racism - --ANSWERS___The overlapping and cumulative effects of inequality due to racism and sexism.
Contact hypothesis - --ANSWERS___The idea that the more people get to know members of a minority group personally, the less likely they are to be prejudiced against that group.
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UPDATED 2025-2026 SOC CHAPTER 10
BENOKRAITIS EXAM (ACTUAL 2024-2025)
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Miscegenation - --ANSWERS___Marriage or sexual relations between a man and a woman of different races.
social construction - --ANSWERS___a societal convention that labels people based on physical appearance, social class, or other characteristics
race - --ANSWERS___refers to physical characteristics with which we are born
ethnicity - --ANSWERS___describes cultural characteristics that we learn
racial-ethnic - --ANSWERS___includes both physical and cultural traits
undocumented immigrants - --ANSWERS___dramatic rise of immigrants that are not legal citizens in the US
de jure - --ANSWERS___legal (segregation) ; was declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court at Brown v. Board of Education
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