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BEING SOCIOLOGICAL

The name for the categorisation, without scientific support, of human groups on the basis of mostly physical characteristics is:
1. Distillation
2. Condensation
3. Race
4. Ethnicity
The categorisation of groups on the basis of shared culture is known as:
1. Racialisation
2. Ethnicity
3. Urbanisation
4. Classification
Using one’s own culture as the benchmark against which all others are judged is known as:
1. Racialisation
2. Ethnocentrism
3. Eurocentrism
4. Racism
The mechanism by which race is translated into action and becomes an effective social category is known as:
1. Racialisation
2. Eurocentrism
3. Ethnocentrism
4. Nationalism
Citizenship is based on:
1. One’s membership of a racialised group
2. The ability to consume
3. One’s status as a member of a political community
4. Shared cultural values
Benedict Anderson uses the term ‘imagined community’ to describe the ideological connection between citizens and:
1. Racial groups
2. Ethnic groups
3. Nation states
4. Virtual communities
Using cultural rather than biological differences as the basis for prejudice, discrimination and social inequality is known as:
1. Ethnocentrism
2. New Racism
3. Eurocentrism
4. Ethnicity
According to Vodanovich, ‘race’ is:
1. A useful term for understanding contemporary social issues
2. A phantom concept
3. The same as ethnicity
4. All of the above
The concept of race has which of these characteristics:
1. No objective validity
2. Symbolic representations that organize sets of social relationships
3. Strong social consequences
4. All of these
Ethnicity:
1. Is always a good thing
2. Is not like race
3. Is a social/cultural construction
4. Is the same as nationality
Contemporary states are:
1. All multicultural
2. All bicultural
3. All monocultural
4. Cultureless
Stuart Hall says racism is:
1. Always historically and culturally specific
2. Only about identity
3. Politically unimportant
4. A good thing
Race, ethnicity, and nationality:
1. Can be explained by a single theory
2. Are never ideological
3. Cannot be a basis for political mobilization
4. None of these
Concepts of race, ethnicity, and nationality:
1. Are not related
2. Have ideological functions
3. Were only relevant before globalization
4. Are only for sociologists
Ideas of racial and ethnic identity:
1. May be a basis for resistance and political mobilization
2. Are disappearing in the 21st century
3. Are always damaging and divisive
4. Are only relevant to sociologists
Gramsci’s hegemony is an example of:
1. Domination through trickery
2. Domination through nuclear weapons
3. Domination through consent
4. Domination through coercion
Race is a cultural concept that:
1. Structures perception
2. Guides behaviour
3. All of these
4. Is a system of moral evaluation
Ghassan Hage writes about:
1. English society
2. German society
3. Australian society
4. American society
Fenton argues that the terms ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’:
1. Have clear fixed meaning
2. All of these
3. Have no clear consistent meaning
4. Describe skin colour
WASPS are:
1. Western Associated Sociological Persons
2. White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
3. White Angry Socialist Politicians
4. Welsh Available Soccer Players

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