Identities and Inequalities Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, _ Sexuality 3rd Edition by David Newman – Test Bank
Chapter 09
The Futures of Inequality
True / False Questions
- Institutional social problems are far too complex for an individual to have any effect on them whatsoever.
FALSE
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Topic: Possibilities: Movements for Change
- Institutions, by their very nature, are quite susceptible to social change.
FALSE
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Topic: Possibilities: Movements for Change
- A post-ethnic/post-racial society in which race and ethnicity no longer matters is very likely in the near future.
TRUE
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Topic: Predicting Unpredictable Futures
- The ability to ignore race always reflects power and privilege.
TRUE
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Topic: Predicting Unpredictable Futures
- We will soon head toward an androgynous society in which gender is a meaningless social identifier.
FALSE
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- It’s extremely far-fetched to suggest that racial distinctions will become narrow, specific, and personally significant in the future.
FALSE
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Topic: Predicting Unpredictable Futures
- What we can safely project is that 10, 20, or 50 years from now, racial and ethnic identities and the color lines that divide us will not take the form they take today.
TRUE
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- Although family structures have changed, most jobs are still based on the assumption that an employee can and should work long hours without worrying about child care and other household needs.
TRUE
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- Most women have moved out of traditionally female occupations.
FALSE
10. Most of us find it difficult to see our own victimization within larger systems of inequality.
FALSE
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