What is the difference between race and ethnic group?
What will be an ideal response?
A race is a category of people treated as distinct on account of physical characteristics to which social importance has been assigned. An ethnic group is a category whose members are thought to share a common origin and to share important determinants of a common culture.
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Ancient Hawaii as it existed at the time of first European contact was
a. stratified, but with definite limitations placed on the power and privilege of dominant groups b. extremely stratified c. unstratified, and therefore based only on inequality d. a rank society
_________ argue that change results from struggles between competing interests
a. Conflict theorists b. Symbolic interactionists c. Structural functionalists d. Postmodernists
Which of the following is TRUE?
a. Canada has an essentially "European" parliamentary system with some British, some French, some German, and some components from several other countries. b. The dominant culture in Canada is Anglo-Saxon. c. The majority of Canadians speak French. d. In the past, admission to Canada was controlled primarily by the government of Quebec.
Compared to girls, boys who violate gender norms experience ______ consequences.
A. harsher B. realistic C. predictable D. insignificant