RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY: A SOCIOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 Quiz
(1) Engagement with diversity is a critical need with high stakes for students, if they are to succeed in developing…
A broad economic, political, and social connections with their home states.
B accurate, factual understandings of contemporary U.S. society and its extensive links to the world.
C Both A and B
D Neither A nor B
(2) Marion and Morrow counties (Ohio) are, respectively, ___% and ___% non-Hispanic white. Although these numbers were comparable to the 1950 national figure of 88% non-Hispanic white, since the 1970s they have become increasingly unrepresentative of the nation.
A 97.5, 90
B 67.5, 60
C 60, 67.5
D 90, 97.5
(3) Diversity is defined as both a fact and a value. For example, it is a demographic fact about the U.S. that it is currently among the _________ of all nations.
A most white
B least multicultural
C least nonwhite
D most multicultural
(4) Diversity competence is defined as: knowledge and skills enabling people of varying social identities to interact with each other in mutually _____ ways. Because the nation is so multicultural, such competence plays a key role in American citizenship today.
A beneficial
B harmful
C indifferent
D detrimental
(5) Conflict theory, functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and feminism are _______: scientific worldviews or perspectives on the world. Although this concept has many shades of meaning, for our purposes they are not themselves testable or falsifiable. Sociologists create testable theories within a particular paradigm.
A paradiddles
B low-range theories
C paradigms
D soft-range theories
(6) Whereas structural functionalism uses the metaphor of ______ to understand society, symbolic interactionism highlights _______.
A individuals interacting with each other; the human arm;
B the human body; societies interacting with each other
C societies interacting with each other; the human body;
D the human body; individuals interacting with each other
(7) A “comparative” perspective in diversity learning means a(n) _____ perspective.
A American
B international
C biased
D Ohio
(8) _______: people of crosscutting social identities often experience the world in different ways
A diversity
B multiculturalism
C intersectionality
D sociology
(9) _______: your body parts are the same as your gender identity.
A cisgender
B heterosexual
C transgender
D homosexual
(10) ________: the view that traditional male control of women should change, giving women more power over their own lives
A feminism
B symbolic interactionism
C conflict theory
D structural functionalism
