What is assimilation?
What will be an ideal response?
It is the process through which individuals learn and adopt the values and social practices of the dominant group, more or less giving up their own values in the process.
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A cell's expected frequency is:
A) the number of people in its row divided by the total number of people, multiplied by the number in its column B) the number of people in its column divided by the total number of people, divided by the row proportion C) the number of people in the cell's row multiplied by the number of people in the column D) the number of people in the cell's row divided by the number of people in the column
______ refers to the belief that racial differences were the result of evolutionary differences among the races.
A. Cultural heritage B. Ethnocentrism C. Racial hypothesis D. Social Darwinism
Sigmund Freud pioneered __________ as a nonmedical form of treatment.
A. psychoanalysis B. behavior modification C. support group therapy D. client-centered therapy
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The Philadelphia Negro is a largely descriptive study because it does not offer a theoretical description of perspective. 2. In The Philadelphia Negro, W. E. B. DuBois finds that crime rates are not actually higher for Blacks than other populations. 3. W. E. B. DuBois developed a general theory rather than a relative one. 4. Contemporary scholars would as W. E. B. DuBois offered a social constructionist conceptualization of race. 5. W. E. B. DuBois is criticized, perhaps correctly, for being overly conservative and elitist.