Quiz 3

Question 1

True or False:
In social construction of difference, James Balwin offered the provocative idea that there is no such thing as whiteness or, for that matter, blackness or, more generally, race. “No one is white or black before he/she came to America,”

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Multiple Choice:
One of the following is not a true statement of the concept of privilege.

a) It is the unearned access to resources only readily available to some people as a result of their advantaged social group membership
b) It could be a white privilege, male privilege or a privilege of the dominant group.
c) It is the unearned advantages and benefits that occur to certain groups of people as a result of their social, cultural, and racial background
d) It does not have real-life consequences.

Answer 2

it does not have real-life consequences

Question 3

True or False:
In the Podcast “How they see Us” social psychologist Claude Steele explains the psychology of “stereotype threat as a situational predicament in which people are or feel themselves to be at risk of conforming to stereotypes.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Multiple Choice:
Which one of the following is not a true statement about your understanding of culture?

a) People use the features of culture to help them make sense of the world.
b) Culture is socially transmitted and reinforced
c) Non-material culture does not include ideas, values, or beliefs.
d) Culture is passed on from generation to generation.

Answer 4

Non-material culture does not include ideas, values, or beliefs.

Question 5

True or False:
Material Culture is the physical objects that members of a culture create and use

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Multiple Choice:
It is the unearned access to resources only readily available to some people as a result of their advantaged social group membership.

a) Privilege
b) Whiteness
c) Race
d) Classism

Answer 6

Privilege

Question 7

True or False:
Ethnocentrism is defined as the tendency to regard one’s own culture and group as the standard, and thus superior, whereas all other groups are seen as inferior.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

True or False
By the Mid-1800 the official government policy with Aboriginal Peoples was “forced assimilation” which is, the process whereby a majority group voluntarily adopts the customs and attitudes to better understand Aboriginal culture.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

True or False:
Anti-Oppression means giving up (or sharing) power and being inclusive of all groups, of all marginalized groups

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Multiple Choice:
Peggy McIntosh wrote about “White Privilege and Male Privilege” and states, “I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privileges, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege” one of the following statements is illustrative of McIntosh’s argument.

a) Different races and women are still put at a disadvantage, but the people who receive the benefits are blind to the problem.
b)All the above
c) access to social goods and services is a privilege.
d) whites and males receive certain privileges, yet they do not even notice them,

Answer 10

All the above

Question 11

True or False:
Race is a category of people who have been singled out as inferior or superior, often on the basis of real or alleged physical characteristics such as skin colour, hair texture, eye shape, or other subjectively selected attributes. It refers to biological characteristics

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Multiple Choice:
____________is the overgeneralized ideas or images about attributes that are thought to be characteristic of members of particular groups.

a) racism
b) Stereotypes
c) Prejudice
d) Discrimination

Answer 12

Stereotypes

Question 13

Multiple Choice:
The spread of “shawarma” a popular Middle Eastern food in Canada is said to be an example of _________,

a) Cultural diffusion
b) Cultural universals
c) Multiculturalism.
d) Culture relativism

Answer 13

Cultural Diffusion

Question 14

Multiple Choice:
Gender roles, religious and healing rituals, mythology, marriage, language, art, dance, music, cooking, games, jokes, sports, the incest taboo, and ritual ceremonies accompanying birth and death are considered to be

a) cultural relativism
b) Cultural universals
c) Ethnocentrism
d)Cultural diffusion

Answer 14

Cultural universals

Question 15

True or False:
Social stratification is a way of ranking large groups of people into a hierarchy that shows their relative privileges

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Multiple Choice:
One of the following is not a true statement of Human/Cultural rights.

a) The relativist position reflects the empirical fact that there is immense cultural diversity in the world, including diverse views about right and wrong.
b) Cultural rights have received less attention and, consequently are conceptually and legally less well-developed than civil, political, economic, and social rights.
c) The division between the different categories of human rights – civil, political, economic, social and cultural – does not imply that one category of human rights is more important than the other.
d) The subjective dimension of culture is reflected in language, religion, and customs.

Answer 16

The division between the different categories of human rights – civil, political, economic, social and cultural – does not imply that one category of human rights is more important than the other.

Question 17

Multiple Choice:
Which of the following is a true statement about Canadian multiculturalism?

a) Allows people to practice any religion.
b) Protects language rights.
c) All the above
d) Protects cultural rights.

Answer 17

All the above

Question 18

Multiple Choice:
What is the argument by Functionalism on Cultural, the theoretical Perspectives on Culture according to Functionalism:

a) Oppressed groups may come to see their own culture as inferior and adopt the dominant culture
b) Cultural practices contribute to social stability.
c) A & B
d) Culture allows people to understand one another and to work towards common goals

Answer 18

A&B

Question 19

Multiple Choice:
The following is Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of Cultural Capital

a) Some types of cultural “taste” have more status than others.
b) All the above
c) We learn “taste” in our families.
d) Used by a social group to maintain superiority over other groups

Answer 19

All the above

Question 20

True or False
Ethnicity and race form a base of hierarchical ranking illustrated by white privilege.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

True or False:
Diversity is a central aspect of Canadian Multiculturalism and multiculturalism is considered an important part of Canadian identity and is protected in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Multiple Choice:
When she comes to the United States, however, where privilege is organized according to race, suddenly she becomes black because people assign her to a social category that bears that name, and they treat her differently as a result. Baldwin refers to this as

a) White privilege
b) The social construction of reality
c) racialization.
d) Racism

Answer 22

the social construction of reality

Question 23

Multiple Choice:
At an individual level, Sue is 25 years old, a single parent, owns her own home and supports a household with one job or one salary, she can afford child care, pay for a vacation, enjoy frequent meals out or amass savings, this is an indication of

a) Class privilege.
b) White privilege
c) Citizenship privilege
d) Gender privilege

Answer 23

Class privilege

Question 24

Multiple Choice:
Where are you from?” “Where were you born?” “You speak good English.” You are a credit to your race.” “You are so articulate.” These statements are examples of

a) Racial privilege
b) Racialization
c) Racism
d) Microaggression

Answer 24

Microaggression

Question 25

True or False:
equality and non-discrimination as key principles of human rights also entail the recognition of diversity and the right to be different.

Answer 25

True