Most African Americans and Hispanics have lower average incomes and since most students today are expected to pay much of the expense of college, a higher proportion
of African American and Hispanics than Anglos (non-Hispanic whites) are kept out of college by its high cost. According to your textbook this is an example of:
a. Ideological racism
b. Individual prejudice
c. Individual discrimination
d. Institutional discrimination
ANS: d
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To be black, female, and old in American society places an individual in what the text calls a state of multiple __________
a. dependency b. jeopardy c. choice d. ethnicity e. characteristics
Which of the following is a strand of theory that derived from the ecological approach to crime and deviance?
A. disorganization theory B. culture of poverty theory C. broken windows theory D. all of these
Which of the following is primary assimilation? a. Racial and ethnic groups maintain their distinctiveness but respect each other and have equal access to social resources
b. Members of different groups coexist as friends, family, and spouses. c. Groups become integrated in public areas and in social institutions, such as neighborhoods, schools, and the workplace. d. A person adopts the culture of a group different from the one in which the person was originally raised.
What has been happening to the life expectancy of working-class whites throughout the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries?
a. Their life expectancy is increasing. b. Their life expectancy is decreasing. c. Their life expectancy has remained the same. d. Their life expectancy has followed the trend of the American population in general.