Chapter 11

A  choice; social structure

B  attitude; action

C  abnormality; what a society considers normal

D  biology; culture

A  a trait of certain individuals that see things as black and white.

B  found among poor and disadvantaged people.

C  built into culture itself.

D  found among most people in all societies.

A  cultural beliefs.

B  high levels of immigration.

C  people with rigid personalities.

D  frustration among disadvantaged people.

A  Widespread throughout the US History where racial inferiority supported slavery

B  Decrease in overt racism in the US but still a serious social problem

C  All of these are correct

D  One racial category is innately superior or inferior to another

A  made any generalization about people.

B  held an opinion about someone based on personal experience.

C  treated anyone in an unkind way.

D  described everyone in some category in the same way.

A  Prejudice treats everyone in some category the same way.

B  Prejudice involves prejudgments.

C  Prejudice can be positive or negative.

D  All of these are correct

A  less than half the society’s total population.

B  small in numbers and disadvantaged.

C  set apart by that society and subordinated or disadvantaged.

D  born in some other country.

A  ethnic category

B  minority

C  racial category

D  out-group

A  stereotype

B  minority

C  ethnicity

D  race

A  people who fall into any minority category.

B  a person’s skin color.

C  a socially constructed shared by a category of people.

D  a socially constructed category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important.