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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