RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY: A SOCIOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION

Chapter 2 Quiz

(1) ____________: self-awareness of how our social identities influence our everyday experiences

A paradigm

B reflexivity

C indexicality

D perspicuity

(2) Which statement best expresses the relationship between reflexivity and social criticism?

A Who we are does not influence what we experience (and don’t experience)

B Our social identities are irrelevant to how we experience society and formulate (or don’t) criticisms of it

C Who we are bears no relation to what we experience (and don’t experience)

D Our social identities matter for how we experience society and formulate (or don’t) criticisms of it

(3) Which statement best expresses the role of social criticism in holding society accountable to its claimed values?

A Open, democratic societies require citizens to ignore the gap between values (ideals) and social reality

B Democracy requires citizens to ignore the gap between values (ideals) and social reality, the difference between words and actions

C Closed, authoritarian societies require citizens to take a critical view of the gap between values (ideals) and social reality

D Democracy requires citizens’ ability to take a critical view of the gap between values (ideals) and social reality, the difference between words and actions

(4) The U.S. currently ranks #____ in terms of strength of democracy; by contrast Canada currently ranks #____.

A 1, 5

B 25, 5

C 5, 25

D 5, 1

(5) ______: the political worldview of a social group—whether a nation, a social movement, a political party, a religion, or a socio-economic class

A multiculturalism

B diversity

C ideology

D reflexivity

(6) _______: extreme anticommunism in the early Cold War. Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy led highly publicized “witch hunts” of alleged Communists in American government and industry.

A patriotism

B McCarthyism

C Trumanism

D democracy

(7) How did Frederick Douglass use social criticism to promote democratic values?

A He criticized America’s failure to make its freedom rhetoric a reality for blacks

B He praised America’s ability to make its freedom rhetoric a reality for blacks

C He criticized America’s failure to make its freedom rhetoric a reality for whites

D He praised America’s ability to make its freedom rhetoric a reality for blacks

(8) Which statement best expresses the relation between Douglass’ nineteenth-century abolitionism and social criticism today?

A It takes courage to stand up for human values when your society is supporting them

B It is never right to criticize your society

C It takes courage to stand up for human values when your society is violating them

D America has never been in the wrong

(9) _________ (1818-1895), abolitionist critic of American slavery and one of the greatest African American leaders of the nineteenth century. His 1852 abolitionist speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” has great relevance to social criticism today.

A David Walker

B Sojourner Truth

C Frederick Douglass

D Harriet Tubman

(10) __________: nations where civil liberties and fundamental political freedoms are not only respected but also reinforced by a political culture conducive to the thriving of democratic principles

A hybrid regimes

B full democracies

C flawed democracies

D authoritarian regimes