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Sydney Witherwax
Quiz 2
SOCL 201W
Version of 10-29-17

1. According to John Dollard, the source of prejudice is:

a. the authoritarian personality

b. frustration
c. a split-labor market
d. selective perception.

2. According to conflict theorists, prejudice:

a. benefits capitalists by splitting workers along racial or ethnic lines

b. contributes to the exploitation of workers, thus producing a split-labor market
c. keeps workers from demanding higher wages and better working conditions
d. all of the above

3. A society’s policy of exploiting a minority group, using social institutions to

deny the minority access to the society’s full benefits is referred to as:

a. segregation
b. pluralism
c. internal colonialism
d. genocide

4. The process of being absorbed into the mainstream culture is:

a. pluralism
b. assimilation
c. cultural submersion
d. internal colonialism
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5. According to William Julius Wilson, what was it that created new opportunities
for middle-class African Americans to move up the social class ladder?

a. economic prosperity
b..organized religion
c. civil rights legislation
d. technological advances