Distinguish between prejudice and discrimination
What will be an ideal response?
Prejudice is an idea or an attitude, usually negative, about a person on the basis of a real or imagined characteristic of a group of which that person is a member. Discrimination is behavior that treats people unfairly on the basis of their group membership.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
After the flood, it was relatively easy for people to make new attachments, since they experienced a common disaster
a. True b. False
Susan would love to be a lawyer but cannot afford to go to law school. Her boyfriend suggested that she steal from her grandmother's estate in order to finance her education, but she refused. Instead, she took a 2-year course and became a librarian. How would Robert Merton classify Susan's actions?
A. conformity B. innovation C. ritualism D. retreatism
When Dora and Gus wanted to get married in 1967, interracial marriage was illegal in 16 of the United States including the one they lived in. They moved away from family to marry. What norms interfered with their marriage?
a) Endogamy b) Exogamy c) Monogamy d) Unigamy