Chapter 11

A  biology; culture

B  abnormality; what a society considers normal

C  choice; social structure

D  attitude; action

A  built into culture itself.

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

C  found among poor and disadvantaged people.

D  found among most people in all societies.

A  cultural beliefs.

B  people with rigid personalities.

C  high levels of immigration.

D  frustration among disadvantaged people.

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

B  All of these are correct

C  One racial category is innately superior or inferior to another

D  Widespread throughout the US History where racial inferiority supported slavery

A  described everyone in some category in the same way.

B  treated anyone in an unkind way.

C  held an opinion about someone based on personal experience.

D  made any generalization about people.

A  Prejudice treats everyone in some category the same way.

B  Prejudice can be positive or negative.

C  All of these are correct

D  Prejudice involves prejudgments.

A  born in some other country.

B  less than half the society’s total population.

C  set apart by that society and subordinated or disadvantaged.

D  small in numbers and disadvantaged.

A  minority

B  racial category

C  ethnic category

D  out-group

A  ethnicity

B  stereotype

C  minority

D  race

A  a socially constructed shared by a category of people.

B  people who fall into any minority category.

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

D  a person’s skin color.