SOC/308 SOC308 SOC 308 WEEK 3 QUIZ

SOC 308 WEEK 3 QUIZ

Week 3 - Quiz

Question 1

Maria P. P. Root’s Bill of Rights for Multiracial Americans includes

 

the claim that multiracial Americans ought not to be concerned about what race they are.

 

the claim that multiracial Americans have a right to determine the racial identities of other racial groups.

 

the claim that multiracial Americans have a right to change their racial identities more than once.

 

the claim that everyone is entitled to know the racial makeup of multiracial people who they encounter.

 

Question 2

Hate crimes suggest the following about U.S. communities:

 

Because hate crimes are committed by isolated and demented individuals, they do not suggest anything about U.S. communities.

 

All U.S. communities should take responsibility for their collective attitudes towards minority racial groups and how members of those groups are treated on a daily basis.

 

Communities where hate crimes exist must be suffering from general oppressions in the past, especially poverty and economic exploitation.

 

Communities where hate crimes exist must contain more than an average number of cruel and bad people.

 

Question 3

U.S. structural inequality with regard to racial and ethnic minorities

 

has adequately been addressed by the mid-1960s legislation prohibiting discrimination, which was passed as result of the Civil Rights Movement.

 

refers to ongoing institutions and practices that disadvantage racial and ethnic minorities in most aspects of their lives.

  

mainly concerns poor infrastructure in minority communities.

 

  

is unrelated to hate crimes, prejudice, or ongoing discrimination.

 

 

Question 4

The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

 

asserts to be rights many solutions to poverty that would also be solutions to structural racial and ethnic inequalities in the United States.

 

does not provide for either universal education or a right to gratifying work.

  

was derived from the U.S. Constitution in its entirety.

 

 

has been adopted as a principle for public policy toward minority groups throughout the democratic world.

 

Question 5

The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts

 

human rights as optional safeguards for racial and ethnic minorities in democratic nations.

  

human rights as privileges that individuals have to earn.

 

  

human rights as absolute and universal, all over the world.

 

  

human rights as relative to the nations in which people live.

 

 

Question 6

UNESCO’s Statement on Race and Race Relations claims that

 

only a world government will be able to effectively address racial prejudice and discrimination.

 

the correction of racial prejudice should be a private matter for individuals to solve morally.

  

racial prejudice remains a mystery that requires further study.

 

 

racial prejudice and discrimination cannot be eradicated but compensations can be made for it.

 

Question 7

A current contradiction about race and ethnicity in the United States is

 

there is formal or legal racial equality, but persistent racial inequality within society.

 

most Americans are both kind-hearted and motivated by strong dislike for those of races different from their own.

 

most Americans get along with those of different races, but work places are still very segregated.

 

while there is formal equality, interracial marriages are a very small percentage of all marriages.

 

Question 8

Research regarding racial profiling has suggested that

 

racial profiling both makes sense given limited police resources and the feeling of security it imparts to innocent members of racial minorities who the police "profile."

 

racial profiling may be justified, because members of racial minorities are already disproportionately convicted of felonies and serving time in prison.

 

racial profiling does not increase the overall arrest rate for drug and weapon possession.

  

racial profiling has a deterrent effects on would-be criminals.

 

 

Question 9

In identifying trends in race and ethnicity, it is important to understand

  

current ideas and popular culture, as well as current events.

 

  

human psychology.

 

  

political and economic conditions that are beyond individual control.

 

 

underlying causes of the trend, background conditions supporting it, and tendencies toward a “counter-trend.”

 

Question 10

In the case of concerns about Middle Eastern terrorists and racial profiling, it should be remembered that

 

racial profiling may be the most efficient way to intervene in terrorist plots because Middle Eastern terrorists do share the same general appearance.

 

ordinary civil liberties are justifiably suspended for all members of groups who come from nations with which the U.S. is at war.

 

it does not violate individual rights if a few are subjected to the inconvenience of false arrest in order to protect large numbers of people.

 

most Middle Eastern Americans are law abiding and innocent of terrorist intentions.