In recent years there was an awakening of ethnic identity among the following groups__________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. For many second and third generation immigrants ethnic background is less a focus of identity than______________?

   A. social class
   B. religion
   C. race
   D. residence

2. The ethnic groups among whom arranged marriages are common include______________?

   A. Indians (natives of India)
   B. Hasidic Jews
   C. Muslim
   D. All of the above

3. The struggle of women and ethnic minorities to change certain discriminatory practices concerns ?

   A. role strain
   B. ascribed statuses
   C. master statuses
   D. role conflict

4. Membership in specific racial ethnic and religious groupings is________________?

   A. characteristic only of industrial societies
   B. a variable of the stratification system
   C. a biological rather than a social product
   D. the cross every individual must bear

5. The difference between racial minorities and ethnic minorities is_______________?

   A. in the size of each group
   B. ethnic minorities do not suffer from discrimination but only from prejudice
   C. racial minorities differ biologically ethnic minorities differ culturally from the dominant group
   D. racial minorities have been here longer than ethnic minorities

6. Ethnic groups are based on_________________?

   A. skin color
   B. common customs and /or identities
   C. genes
   D. eye shape

7. Members of an ethnic group_________________?

   A. share behavioral traits
   B. share social and cultural traits
   C. share physical traits
   D. are heterogeneous

8. In sociological studies of race and ethnic relations_______________?

   A. minority refers to the smaller group
   B. minority refers to an oppressed group
   C. majority represents the group in power because of its large numbers
   D. minorities are described on the basis of biology

9. In the United States a sense of national identity ?

   A. never developed
   B. was first based on a common ethnicity and language
   C. was later reinforced by the notion of “specialness”
   D. only B and C

10. Maintaining a group’s distinctive customs and identity is called______________?

    A. cultural decline
    B. cultural pluralism
    C. cultural complex
    D. cultural trait