SOCS350 Week 2 Quiz Latest 2019 JULY

SOCS350 Cultural Diversity in the Professions

Week 2 Quiz

Question 1TCOs
1 & 2) Those members of society whose cultural understandings and
backgrounds are different from one another and from the dominant culture are
_____.

ethnic groups

racial groups

White ethnics

culturally different

racial/ethnic communities

Question 2 (TCOs
1 & 2) Collections of persons from common racial or ethnic backgrounds who
share common cultural interests are _____.

a race

culturally diverse

a culture

culturally different

racial/ethnic communities

Question 3 (TCOs
1 & 2) Evaluating cultural differences in relationship to one’s own
cultural standards is _____.

stereotyping

marginalization

discrimination

ethnocentrism

prejudice

Question 4 (TCOs
1 & 2) This occurs as a result of longstanding practices and/or behaviors
that have a negative impact on members of subordinate groups:

individual discrimination.

institutional discrimination.

ethnocentrism.

marginalization.

globalization.

Question 5 (TCO
8) Institutional discrimination is also called _____ discrimination.

foundational

fundamental

ordinal

primary

structured

Question 6 (TCO
1) Individual discrimination is also called:

illogical.

idiopathic.

personal.

ideological.

prejudice.

Question 7 (TCO 8) Which of the following
statements is TRUE regarding majority minority group relations?

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The majority group always knows and
understands more about the minority group than the minority group does about
the majority group.

The majority group knowledge and
understanding of the minority group is usually equal to the knowledge and
understanding that the minority has for the majority group.

The majority group has the knowledge but not
the understanding of the minority group.

The minority group had the understanding but
not the knowledge of the majority group.

The minority always knows and understands
more about the majority group than the majority group does about the minority
group.

Question 8 (TCO
8) According to Robert Merton, a person who believes single mothers are
financially unstable and thus refuses to rent apartments to them, is a:

unprejudiced nondiscriminator.

prejudiced nondiscriminator.

Correct
Answer

prejudiced discriminator.

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unprejudiced
discriminator.

gender discriminator.

Question 9 (TCOs
1 & 2) Institutional discrimination occurs due to:

longstanding practices and/or behaviors that
have a negative impact on members of subordinate groups.

long-ago agreements between superior and
subordinate groups.

lax internal auditing predating
Sarbanes-Oxley.

loopholes in federal law left over from the
Reagan Administration.

an electoral mandate.

Question 10
(TCO 1 & 2) Marginalization is defined as

the process of diminishing the value,
importance, contributions, or attributes of a category of people.

the process of gentrification.

the displacement of inner-city residents due
to urban renewal.

seating minorities near the kitchen and “on
the margins” in restaurants.

societal triage.