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The physical features that people use to designate others as a member of a distinct race are related to basic biological functions.

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What factors are involved in ethnic stratification?

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Although prejudice often leads to discrimination, acts of discrimination rarely lead people to develop prejudices against their victims.

Marginal adaptation is least successful when the minority population is small.

Self-segregation of an ethnic population is easiest to maintain in urban, media-dominated societies.

Selective inclusion is a discriminatory process that also has elements of exclusion.

__________ and __________ are two types of adaptation to discrimination that operate to isolate ethnic populations in society.

Which is the least likely response of an ethnic population to discrimination?

Marginal participation in specialized economic niches is most likely when an ethnic population is large.

Why is it easier for the Irish, Italians, and Poles to assimilate in U.S. society than it is for Mexicans, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans?

Discrimination is the most important force sustaining ethnic tensions in a society.

Allowing early Asian immigrants to the United States access to mining and railroad occupations but not to political offices or professional occupations is a type of segregation known as _________.

When ethnic subpopulations reveal distinctive shares of valued resources, locations at specific places in social hierarchies, and distinctive characteristics tied to their resources and location in hierarchies, then a system of __________ can be said to exist.

Why can biological distinctiveness be seen as part of ethnicity?

Two types of discrimination that tend to operate simultaneously are selective inclusion and

As an ethnic population's identifiability decreases, its assimilation into the broader culture and society increases.

Prejudice and discrimination are not important dimensions in ethnic stratification.

The terms "prejudice" and "discrimination" are roughly equivalent.

Which is not true of ethnicity?

Prejudicial stereotypes are not necessary for the maintenance of institutionalized discrimination.