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Which of the following is NOT a sociologically significant characteristic of all minority groups?
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Suppose the builders of a new, expensive cooperative apartment house may not be personally prejudiced against Jews, but they may refuse to sell apartments to Jewish families. This is a clear case of:
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Historically, many whites have tended to see blacks as extremely promiscuous and uninhibited in their sexual relations. This is an example of:
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__________ is the requirement that a person must marry someone who is similar to oneself in religion, social class, and race or ethnicity.
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__________ refers to attributing a fixed and usually unfavorable or inaccurate conception to a category of people.
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__________ discrimination is an unconscious result of the structure and functioning of public institutions and policies themselves.
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__________ segregation is a result of housing patterns, economic patterns, gerrymandered school districts, and other factors.
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A practice that contributes to high rates of segregation is __________, in which real-estate brokers refuse to show houses outside of specific areas to minority buyers.
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Fearing that the term __________ lumps together too many different categories of impoverished people and threatens to become a pejorative label, sociologist William J. Wilson has abandoned the term.
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Blacks account for about 12 percent of the population, but they make up __________ percent of the prison population.
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In the important U.S. Supreme Court case of __________, it was argued that the death sentence of a black defendant convicted of killing a white police officer should be revoked because there was evidence of systematic discrimination in similar cases
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To a large extent, any chance of redressing past institutional discrimination lies in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and amendments to it. This body of federal law established the concept of:
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Efforts to achieve greater racial equality in education have focused on two basic policy tools: __________ programs.
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__________ is a blanket term that refers to federally funded preschool programs aimed at preparing disadvantaged children for school.
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The U.S. Immigration Act of 1986:
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