SOCS350 Week 2 Quiz Latest November 2018

SOCS350 Cultural Diversity in the Professions

Week 2 Quiz

Question 1

(TCOs 1 & 2) The process of diminishing the value, importance, contributions, or attributes of a category of people is _____.

  globalization

  prejudice

  discrimination

  marginalization

  ethnocentrism

 

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) One-on-one acts by members of the dominant group that harm subordinate group members or their property are forms of _____.

  racism

  prejudice

  individual discrimination

  institutional discrimination

  marginalization

 

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) In all industrial societies, majority and minority groups are arranged in layers reflecting their relationships with one another.  These layers are also called:

  plateaus.

  tortes.

  strata.

  cliques.

  pecking-order.

 

Question 6

 (TCO 1) Individual discrimination is also called:

  illogical.

  idiopathic.

  personal.

  ideological.

  prejudice.

 

Question 7

(TCO 8) Because minority groups have been marginalized over time, their relationship with the majority group is generally framed in terms of:

  formal communication.

  distrust.

  an uneasy truce.

  conflict.

  affection.

 

Question 8

 (TCO 8) According to Robert Merton, an apartment manager who believes in equal opportunity in housing, is told by the apartment owner that if he wants to keep his job, not to rent apartments to Asians, because their cooking bothers other tenants, would be a(n):

  unprejudiced nondiscriminator.

  prejudiced nondiscriminator.

  prejudiced discriminator.

  unprejudiced  discriminator.

  gender discriminator.

 

 

Question 9

(TCOs 1 & 2) Cultural diversity is defined in the lecture as:

  the demographic breakdown of a population.

  the variety of cultural offerings in a metro region.

  the existence of a wide variety of cultures and subcultures represented within a society.

  the number of languages spoken among a specific population.

  the array of ethnic restaurants in a given area.

 

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.