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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?

You Answered

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.

You Answered

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.