LSU SOCL 2001 Final Exam UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Group of people with a shared set of characteristics (typically physical) said to share a common
bloodline - CORRECT ANSWER race
Belief that members of separate races posses different and unequal traits characterized by the beliefs
that 1) humans are divided into distinct bloodlines 2) bloodlines/physical traits are linked to distinct
cultures, behaviors, etc. 3) certain groups are superior to others - CORRECT ANSWER racism
19th century theories of race that characterize a period of feverish investigation into the origins,
explanations, and classifications of race - CORRECT ANSWER scientific racism
Belief that one's own culture is superior; judgement of other groups by one's own standards and values
- CORRECT ANSWER ethnocentrism
Philosophical and religious notion that all people are equal - CORRECT ANSWER ontological
equality
Application of darwinism to society (survival of the fittest); 19th century - CORRECT
ANSWER social darwinism
Eugenics creator - CORRECT ANSWER sir francis galton
"well born"; pseudoscience that postulates that controlling the fertility of populations could influence
inheritable traits passed generation to generation - CORRECT ANSWER eugenics
Movement to protect and preserve indigenous land/culture from dangerous/polluting effects of new
immigrants - CORRECT ANSWER nativism
Belief that "one drop" of black blood makes a person black; evolved from US laws forbidding
miscegenation - CORRECT ANSWER one-drop rule
, Technical term for interracial marriage' sociologists prefer exogamy or outmarriage - CORRECT
ANSWER miscegenation
Formation of new racial identity by drawing ideological boundaries of difference around a formerly
unnoticed group of people - CORRECT ANSWER racialization
One's ethnic quality of affiliation; voluntary, self-defined, not physical - CORRECT
ANSWER ethnicity
Nationality that is individualistic in nature and without real social cost for the individual - CORRECT
ANSWER symbolic ethnicity
Four broad forms that minority-majority group relations can take - CORRECT ANSWER 1
assimilation
2 pluralism
3 segregation
4 racial conflict
Straight-line assimilation creator - CORRECT ANSWER robert park
1920's universal and linear model for how immigrants assimilate: arrive, settle, achieve full
assimilation - CORRECT ANSWER straight-line assimilation
Primordialism founder - CORRECT ANSWER clifford geertz
Term to explain the strength of ethnic ties fixed and deeply felt on ties to one's homeland culture -
CORRECT ANSWER primordialism
Presence and coexistence of numerous distinct groups in one society - CORRECT
ANSWER pluralism
Mass killing of a group based on racial, ethnic, or religious traits - CORRECT
ANSWER genocide
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Group of people with a shared set of characteristics (typically physical) said to share a common
bloodline - CORRECT ANSWER race
Belief that members of separate races posses different and unequal traits characterized by the beliefs
that 1) humans are divided into distinct bloodlines 2) bloodlines/physical traits are linked to distinct
cultures, behaviors, etc. 3) certain groups are superior to others - CORRECT ANSWER racism
19th century theories of race that characterize a period of feverish investigation into the origins,
explanations, and classifications of race - CORRECT ANSWER scientific racism
Belief that one's own culture is superior; judgement of other groups by one's own standards and values
- CORRECT ANSWER ethnocentrism
Philosophical and religious notion that all people are equal - CORRECT ANSWER ontological
equality
Application of darwinism to society (survival of the fittest); 19th century - CORRECT
ANSWER social darwinism
Eugenics creator - CORRECT ANSWER sir francis galton
"well born"; pseudoscience that postulates that controlling the fertility of populations could influence
inheritable traits passed generation to generation - CORRECT ANSWER eugenics
Movement to protect and preserve indigenous land/culture from dangerous/polluting effects of new
immigrants - CORRECT ANSWER nativism
Belief that "one drop" of black blood makes a person black; evolved from US laws forbidding
miscegenation - CORRECT ANSWER one-drop rule
, Technical term for interracial marriage' sociologists prefer exogamy or outmarriage - CORRECT
ANSWER miscegenation
Formation of new racial identity by drawing ideological boundaries of difference around a formerly
unnoticed group of people - CORRECT ANSWER racialization
One's ethnic quality of affiliation; voluntary, self-defined, not physical - CORRECT
ANSWER ethnicity
Nationality that is individualistic in nature and without real social cost for the individual - CORRECT
ANSWER symbolic ethnicity
Four broad forms that minority-majority group relations can take - CORRECT ANSWER 1
assimilation
2 pluralism
3 segregation
4 racial conflict
Straight-line assimilation creator - CORRECT ANSWER robert park
1920's universal and linear model for how immigrants assimilate: arrive, settle, achieve full
assimilation - CORRECT ANSWER straight-line assimilation
Primordialism founder - CORRECT ANSWER clifford geertz
Term to explain the strength of ethnic ties fixed and deeply felt on ties to one's homeland culture -
CORRECT ANSWER primordialism
Presence and coexistence of numerous distinct groups in one society - CORRECT
ANSWER pluralism
Mass killing of a group based on racial, ethnic, or religious traits - CORRECT
ANSWER genocide
