The builder of a cooperative apartment house may not be negatively predisposed toward Jews, but nevertheless may refuse to sell to a Jewish family in the belief that doing so may make it difficult to rent the other apartments. In Robert Merton's typology of the relationships between prejudice and discrimination, this builder would be a(n) __________.
A. prejudiced discriminator
B. outright bigot
C. latent bigot
D. institutional discrimination
Answer: D
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a. equivalent to a hypothesis. b. a trial and highly tentative idea. c. the dominant and widely accepted theories and concepts in a particular field of study. d. the most controversial theories and concepts within a discipline.
The election of African Americans in predominantly white areas is referred to as ____
a. assimilation b. false consciousness c. diversity d. accommodation e. biracial politics
According to the author, it is
a. not possible to prove that one value is better than another. b. fairly easy to prove one value is better than another. c. unlikely that people will have value conflicts. d. not good for people to make value judgments.
White students studied by Perry frequently felt feelings of threats during which of the following?
a. When fights broke out in the school cafeteria. b. When they were consistently beaten in athletic events by black athletes. c. When they felt that students of color were given academic privileges, such as Affirmative Action, even though their grades may have been higher than the students of color. d. None of the above.