SOC/308 SOC308 SOC 308 WEEK 4 QUIZ

SOC 308 WEEK 4 QUIZ

Quiz 1

Question 1

India’s caste system

 

is a hierarchical system of inherited occupations that structures society.

 

 

has been illegal and for all practical purposes non-existent since 1950.

 

  

depends on the exploitation of the untouchables or Dalit.

 

  

is strictly based on physical appearance and skin color prejudice.

 

 

Question 2

Indigenous people in Hawaii

 

have well-developed sovereign rights in contrast to those in the U.S. mainland.

 

often cannot find employment in Hawaii and move to U.S. mainland for jobs.

 

are considered a “model minority” in Hawaii, because their culture has had tremendous influence on mainstream culture in those islands.

 

are comparable to indigenous groups in Alaska, who are isolated from settled societies and content with their self-sufficiency in that condition.

 

Question 3

Skepticism about ideal race relations in Brazil has been based on

  

Brazil’s high rate of interracial marriage.

 

  

great concentrations of poverty among Black Brazilians.

 

  

the downward social mobility of mixed Brazilians.

 

 

the existence of many gradations of mixed race and the upward socioeconomic mobility of mixed-race persons.

 

Question 4

In Mexico, the term “la raza” refers to

  

the population of Black Mexicans.

 

  

the population of elite Mexicans of unmixed Spanish descent.

 

  

most Mexicans who are of both Indian and Spanish descent.

 

  

an ideal of racial identity that has been achieved.

 

 

Question 5

Contemporary ideals of pluralism in the United States include

  

a homogenous racial and ethnic population.

 

  

complete economic equality of racial and ethnic groups.

 

 

guaranteed political power on the highest levels of government, equally shared among all racial and ethnic groups.

 

the rights of individuals to practice the religion of their racial or ethnic group.

 

Question 6

The colonial doctrine of terra nullius

 

extended European property rights to nomadic people, so that they could retain all of the lands they roamed over.

 

enabled Europeans to seize the lands occupied by indigenous peoples under the fiction that these lands were void of inhabitants.

  

was used to nullify treaties with indigenous peoples.

 

 

was used to nullify the land rights of settlers so as to set aside land for indigenous inhabitants who had been driven off their land.

 

Question 7

The main distinction between pluralism in the United States and other countries is

 

a focus on recognition of individuals in the United States versus a focus on recognition of racial and ethnic groups in other countries.

 

that it is mainly economic and political in nature in the United States and cultural in most other countries.

 

equality of racial and ethnic groups in the United States versus a mere striving for such equality in other countries.

 

takes the form as deep multiculturalism in the United States compared to its form as shallow multiculturalism in most other countries.

 

Question 8

Transitional Justice in South Africa 

has resulted in just punishment for past wrongs, reparations, and a society free of racial prejudice and discrimination.

 

has not served as a way that some other nations might deal with problematic pasts concerning race relations.

  

has not corrected racism or structural inequality.

 

  

has led to several steps back, in the direction of apartheid, again.

 

 

Question 9

The Australian government’s relation with Aborigines

 

is most similar to the U.S. government’s relationship to new immigrants, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

  

has been a model for implementing egalitarian co-existence.

 

 

has been shaped by strong, violent Aboriginal uprisings, twice leading to civil war.

 

has been an extreme of pluralism in the government’s past non-interference with settler’s local policy of aboriginal extermination.

 

Question 10

Indigenous people in Hawaii

  

have achieved structural equality in most instances.

 

 

have since the first Western contact dominated mainstream politics on the islands.

 

are an unmixed group with self-pride in the “purity” of their race and culture.

 

make up many organizations that do not agree on solutions to their structural disadvantages.